to which he added, in 1709, that of Counsellor; and in 1723 that of Aulic Counsellor. He married Catharine Margaret Gleditsch, daughter of a Bookseller at Leipsic, with whom he lived thirty years; and by whom he had two sons, Frederic Otto, and Charles Otto.

His health began to give way at a middle age; and he died 1. April, 1732, aged 58. NICERON gives a List of 29 Works written or edited by him. Among these are:

Petri Alcyonii Medices Legatus, sive de Exilio Libri duo. Accessere Joan. Pierius Valerianus, et Cornelius Tollius de Infelicitate Litteratorum, ut et Josephus Barberius de Miseria Poetarum Græcorum, cum Prefatione Joan. Burch. Menckenii. Lipsia, 1707. in 12.0 Niceron observes that all these works deserved to be reprinted, with the exception of that of Barberius, which is but a miserable rhapsody. The present Editor reprinted the Tract of Valerianus at Geneva, in 1821. (See Gent. Mag. Feb. 1822.)

M. Antonii Campani, Episcopi Aurusini, Epistolæ et Poemata, una cum vita Autoris. Recensuit Joan. Burch. Menckenius. Lipsiæ, 1707. in 12.0

The Life is an abridgement of that, which Michel Ferno had put at the head of his Edition of the Work of Campanus. Mencke has appended a Discourse pronounced at Leipsic in

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1701, on the aversion to the Germans which his Author discovers.

Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, præcipue Saxonicarum, in quibus Scripta et Monumenta illustria, pleraque hactenus inedita, tum ad Historiam Germaniæ generatim, tum speciatim Saxoniæ superioris, Misniæ, Thuringia, etc. spectantia, continentur. Ex sua Bibliotheca aliisque edidit Joannes Burchardus Menckenius. Lipsia. 3 vol. fol. 1728. et 1730.

A very important collection, published for the most part for the first time. NICERON, XXXI. 254, 264.

His son FREDERIC OTTO MENCKENIUS, published the Life of ANGELO POLITIANO, (1) Lips. 1736, 4.o See Res Lit. I. 149. Frederic was born at Leipsic, 1708. He succeeded his father in the Chair of History at Leipsic; and died 14.th March, 1754, æt. 46; from complaints brought on by excessive application to study. He continued the Acta Eruditorum from his Father's death. He also published: Opera Selecta Ant. Campani, 1734, 8.° whose Epistles had been edited by his father, John Burchard M.

Also Bibliotheca Virorum, militiá æquè ac

(1) This is an excellent piece of literary history; much sought after, and little common.

scriptis illustrium. Lips. 1734. 8.o His Father had published De Militia et Literarum connubio, 1699; a tract not noticed by Niceron.

See the other works of this learned Man, noticed in Biogr. Univ. xxvIII. 271.

As to the CHARLATANERIA of John Burchard, the Father, the 6.th Edition was Amsterd. (Leips.) 1747. 8. It gave occasion to Critique de la Charlatanerie des Savants, 2 vol. 12. by some attributed to Camusat; by others to Coquelet, etc.

« On ne saurait faire, (dit d'Alembert dans l'Essai sur les gens de lettres,) un plus mauvais livre avec un meilleur titre. » « Ce jugement sevère est fondé, » ( says the author of the article of B. Mencke, in Biogr. Univers.,) << car l'ouvrage n'a aucun plan, et il est très-incomplet. On y trouve beaucoup de faits avancés légèrement, et rapportés sur de simples ouï-dire; mais les remarques critiques, dont la traduction française est accompagnée, sont en grande partie employées à rétablir la vérité de certains faits, et à remplir les lacunes. Ces remarques sont trèscurieuses, quoique souvent prolixes. On doit dire cependant, que, malgré ses défauts, la Charlatanerie des Savants se lit avec plaisir comme simple receuil d'anecdotes. Voyez les Notes de Lechevin, sur le Chef-d'œuvre d'un inconnu, II. p. 446. »

(1) Biogr. Univ. XXVIII. 270.

ART. LXII. ACTA ERUDITORUM.

The mention of this Work in the last article under its founders, Otto Menckenius, and his son John Burchard, induces me to register it this place.

1. Acta Eruditorum publicata Lipsiæ, ab anno 1682, ad annum 1732. Lipsiæ, 1682-1731. 50 vol. in 4.°

2. Actorum Eruditorum quæ Lipsia publicantur Supplementa. Lipsia, 1692-1734. 10 vol. in 4.0

This brings the work to the death of Joh. Burchard Menckenius, the son.

3. Nova Acta Eruditorum Lipsiensia, ab anno 1732 ad annum 1765. Lipsia, 1732, et ann. seqq. 34 vol. 4.o

4. Ad Nova Acta Eruditorum quæ Lipsia publicantur, Supplementa. Lipsia, 1735-1754. 11 vol. in 4.°

5. Indices Actorum Orbis Eruditi quæ Lipsia publicantur. Lipsia, 1633-1745. 6 vol. in 4.°

This brings the Work to the death of Frederic Otto, the grandson.

6. Nova Acta, (etc.) ad 1776.

In the whole, 117 volumes in 4.o This Collection is rarely found complete. The volumes of 1775 and 1776, published in 1781 and 1782, are the most rare. Separate Parts bear a low price.

To this Collection ought to be added a voin 4.° not common, entitled :

Defensio Relationis de Antonia Burvignonia, Acts Eruditorum Lipsiensibus mensis Januari anni 1686 insertæ, adversus anonymi famosas chartas. Amstelodami sub titulo Moniti Necessarii publicatas. Lipsia, 1687. in 4.° de 184 f. et 16 pag.

It is the defense of Seckendorf; and the Monitum Necessarium was by Poiret.

De Bure says that this Collection of Acta Eruditorum is regarded as the best Journal up to the time of its conclusion, and still (1768,) preserves its credit in the Literary world. He adds, that it is to be wished, that it had always served as a model for the periodical works, which followed it. (1)

Præfatio Voluminis I. hujus Operis.

LECTORI BENEVOLO SALUTEM.

« Quemadmodum Seculo nostro eam, jure optimo gratutulamur felicitatem, quòd Artes omnes Scientiæque, et Literarùm quarumcunque studia, summum ad fastigium eni

(1) De Bure, vI. 411.