Johann Crotus

Crotus Rubeanus (also Rubianus ), actually John Hunter, also Venator (up to 1509 ) or venatoris (after 1509 ) (c. 1480 in Dorn home in Arnstadt, Thuringia, † 1545 in Halberstadt ) was a German humanist and a Catholic theologian.

Rubeanus was in Erfurt college friend of Martin Luther and Ulrich von Hutten. He became in 1510 head of the monastery school in Fulda and spent the years 1517-1520 in Italy. On his return he joined initially Luther's Reformation, but the big Volksaufläufe and the short-sightedness of some preacher let him return to the Catholic Church, although he was not satisfied. 1531 it has been sharply criticized by Luther's followers, when he accepted a canonry in Halle.

Rubeanus Crotus stood for some time in the service of the ducal administration in Königsberg Pr. He was the author of " Epistolae obscurorum virorum ", the first part of satire Letters of Obscure Men against the then ignorance of the monks and clerics.