ESIMIUS UBBO, was born at Gretba, in East Friesland, in 1547. His father was a clergyman of the Lutheran communion. Emmius studied at Bremen, Rostock, and lastly at Geneva, where ha became intimate with Beza. Ho afterwards returned to his native country, and in 1589 was made rector of the school of Norden, in East Fries land. In 1594 he was appointed to the chair of history and the Greek language in the college of Groningen, and when the university of Groningen was instituted in 1614, Emmius was made rector of the same. He was deeply imbued with classical learning, and he excelled in the knowledge of history, ancient and modern. Among his his torical works the most important is the ' Vetus Grxcia illustrate,' 3 vols. Leyden, 1626. The first volume consists of a description of ancient Greece, including the islands; the second contains a history of that country; and the third, which is the most elaborate and interesting, gives an account of the political institutions and social manners of the various Greek states, namely, of Athens, Sparta, Creta, Argos, Thebes, Corinth, Syracuse, Corcyra, Samos, Chios, Rhodes, Achaia, /I:tolls, Massilia in Gaul, Locri in Italy, and Lycia in Asia. The author has also introduced a brief sketch of the Carthaginian republic. The appendix contains an account of the decline and fall of three of the above states—Athens, Carthage, and Sparta. Emmius
gives a long list of ancient authors from whom he derived his informa tion. The work is altogether useful, and was still more eo at the time of its appearance, when good works on classical learning were more scarce than they are at present. The other works of Emmius are 2, ' Opus Chronologicum,' or a General Chronology, folio, 1610. 3, 'Iterum Frisicarum Historia, h gentle origins usque ad ann. 1565,' Leyden. 1632: it is a good history of Friesland, tho author's native country, to which is added De Frisiorum Republica Commentarius,' published before separately at Embden in 1619. 4, De Agro Frisias inter Ama.eum et Lavicum flumina.' 5, Historia nostri Temporis,' Groningen, 1732. Emmius Ubbo died in 1625, in his seventy-eighth year. At the time of his death he was busy writing a history of Philip of Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great, which he intended as a warning to the republic of the United Provinces against the designs and intrigues of their enemies. He had written as far as the fifteenth year of Philip's reign. Emmius was acquainted with, and appreciated by, most of the learned men of his time, such as De Thou, Gruter, Gomar the theologian, Pezelius, and others. He was especially a favourite with William Louis, of Nassau, the governor of Friesland and Groningen.