PRÆTORIUS, or PRÄTORIUS. The assumed surname of more than one family of distinguished German Musicians, whose true patronymic was Schultz.The word Schultze signifies the Head-man of a village or small town; and may therefore be translated by Prætor.
Of the numerous Composers whose works are published under this name, the most celebrated was Michael Prætorius, a learned and industrious writer, of whose personal history very little is known, beyond the facts, that he was born at Creutzberg in Thuringia...