a learned Dutch ecclesiastic, was born at Steenwyk, Overyssel, about 1540. His family was distinguished and honorable. After studying at Cologne, he took the ecclesiastical habit, taught philosophy in the college at Laurentianum, and afterwards became its principal., He had charge of the faculty of arts at Cologne, and was canon of the cathedral. He died April 23, 1604. His writings show erudition and a great range of reading. We mention, Bibliotheca Ecclesiastics. etc (Cologne, 1599, 4 vols. fol.): — Ecelesiasticoe Disciplinoe, etc. (ibid. 1599, 8vo): — Bibliotheca Catholia (ibid. 1602, 2 vols. 4to): — Hierarchica Anacrisis (ibid. 1604, fol.). See Sweert Athenoe Belgicoe; Hartzheim, Bibl. Colon.