HOTMAN, FRANCOIS, called also by his Latinised name 110T0 MANUS, was born at Paris in 1524, of a family originally from Silesia. He studied law in the university of (Heinle, and afterwards practiced at the bar. About 1547 he embraced the Reformed religion, in conse quence, it was said, of seeing the constancy is ith which Anne du Bourg, a counsellor to the parlie.mont of Paris, supported the ignominious death to which he was condemned on account of his religion. [Him vat, DE O.) His father having, in consequence of his change of religion, refused him his support, Hotman repaired to Switzerland, where he taught humanities in the College of Lausanne. In 1550 lie was appointed professor of law at Strasbourg. He afterwards returned to France under the protection of the king of Navarre, and became pro fessor of law first at Valence, and then at Bourges, from which last place he ran away after having concealed himself during the massacre of St.. Bartholomew, sod repaired to Geneva, and then to Basel, where he died in 1590. A collection of his works, in three volumes folio, was published at Geneva in 1599. His principal works are-1, 'Commenta
rius do Vcrbis Juris, Antiquitatum Romanarum Elementis amplificatus; ' 2, Commentarius in Quntuor Institutionum Juris Civilis Libros ;' 3 Commented() Tripartita ad Libros Feudorum ; ' 4, `De Jure Regni Gallia) Libri III.;' 5, Disputationum Juris Civilis Volumen unum ; ' 6, 'Antiquitatum Romanarum Libri Tres ; ' 7, Commentariue in Ora. tiones M. T. Ciceronis, eas maxime slum aliquam Juris Qumstionem continent;' 8, Commentarius in Epistolam Ciceronis ad Quintuns Fratrem de Provincia bens administranda;' 9, 'Consolatio o Sa.crft Literis :' 10, Ad Remundum Rufum Defensorem Romanorum Ponti• Scum contra Carolum Molinmum de Statu Primitives Ecelesim liber; 11, 'Franco Gallia,' in which he contended that France was an elective and not an hereditary kingdom ; 12, 'De Furoribus Gallicis et de Casde Admiralis ;' 13, L'Anti-Tribonien, ou Discours Bur l'Etude des Lois,' which be wrote at the request of the chancellor De rIlOpital. A biography of Hotman is prefixed to tho collection of his Latin Epistles, 4to, Amsterdam, 1700.