a Roman Catholic writer, was born at Freysingen in 1524, and studied at Cologne. He was the spiritual adviser of the emperor Ferdinand I, and died May 19, 1586, leaving, (Economia Bibliorum seu Partitionum Theologicarum, etc. (Cologne, 1568; Venice, 1572 ): — Compendium Catechismi Catholici (Cologne, 1570): — De Fide Catholica (1571): — Malleus Haereticorum (Ingolstadt, 1580): — Mataeologia Haereticorum (ibid. 1581). See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelhrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)