KUSTER, LUDOLF, was born in 1670, at Blomberg in Westphalia. He studied at Berlin, and afterwards visited various parts of Europe, where he became connected with the principal scholars of his age. In 1696 he published a critical dissertation on the history of Homer and his works, Historia Critics Homed,' which F. A. Wolff reprinted in the first volume of his edition of Homer, 1785. Kuster went after wards to Utrecht, where he remained some years, sod contributed several papers to the ' Thesaurus Antiquitatum Remanent.= ' of GIV3V/118, and to the ' Thesaurus Antiquitatum Grescarum ' of James Gronovius. While at Utrecht he also published a literary journal in Latin, Bibliotheca Librorum Novorum, collects a L. Neocoro, ab Aprili, anno 1697, ad Decembrem, 1699.' Neoeorue is the Latinised form of his name, which Kuster assumed in his works according to the fashion of the times. In the year 1700 he repaired to England, where he undertook to edit a new edition of Suidas, which was published at Cambridge, 3 vole, folio, 1705. In 1707 he published at Amsterdam the ' Life of Pythagoras,' by Iamblichua; and in 1710 he produced an cditiou of Aristophnnes, with the Scholia. James Grono
vius having criticised with his customary bitterness and ill temper Kuster's 'Suidas, Koster replied to hitn in his ' Diatribe Auti-Orono viauft, in qua editio Suidme defenditur, Bourque baud pauca lova II eaychii emendantur, et denique quid fuerit grave spud veteres Romance explicetur. Accedit Diatribe de verbo cetera,' Amsterdam, 1712. In this last dissertation on the verb 'cerno,' Kuster gave a specimen of a series of observations ou the Latin language, about which be had been busy for years, but which he left incomplete at his death. This dissertation also led him into a controversy with Perizonins. About 1713 Kuster, being then at Paris, obtained from Louis XlV., through the friendship of L'Abb6 Bignon, a pension of 2000 livres, and was made a member of the Academy of InacrIptions. Ile died at Paris in 1716. His notes on Ilesychius, which he left in manuscript, were inserted by J. Alberti in his edition of llesychius, 2 vote. folio, 1746. Kuster was one of the best acholara of his time.