a Dutch scholar, was born in 1683. He was first preacher in a small village, but was called to Leyden as professor of history and Greek, and died April 25, 1742. He published, S. Fl. Tertulliani Apologeticus, etc. (Leyden, 1718): — Josephi Opera Omnia, etc. (Amsterdam, 1726, 2 volumes, fol.): — Abudami Historia Jacobitarum c. Annotatt. Jo. Nicolai (Leyden, 1740). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:102, 131, 156, 634, 912, 913; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:366; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)