Johann Ludwig Brassicanus

John Brassicanus (actually Kölli, Kol, or Kohl Koehl; * after 1475 in Konstanz, † March 21, 1514 in Wildbad ) was a German humanist, scholar and grammarian.

Family

John Brassicanus came from Hans Coelli († before 1500 ) from. From his marriage to Dorothea Vogler the children came

• Dorothea Koehl (c. 1510)
• Johann Alexander Brassicanus (* 1493 in Cannstatt, † 1539 in Vienna), Imperial Hofpfalzgraf, professor of civil litigation in Vienna
• Johann Ludwig Brassicanus (* 1509 in Tübingen, † 1549 in Vienna), law professor in Vienna, adviser to Queen Mary of Hungary
• Margarete Brassicanus ( * after 1511)

Life

Brassicanus was preceptor in Tübingen, in 1500 he became a Latin schoolmaster in Cannstatt, from 1509 onwards, he was head of the Tübingen Latin School.

In 1508 he published the " Institutiones Grammaticae ", a systematic presentation of Latin grammar and an important work of his time. He described one of the most important humanistic books collections in Europe, the Bibliotheca Corvina (2000 volumes), the king Matthias Corvinus ( 1458-1490 ) had let build up.

Comments

• Thilo spelled Günther Schweizer: Ancestors and family of the poet Friedrich Schiller, S. 88: Widespread in some publications false claim that John Kul hot originally Kölburger, is caused by the fact that his grandson Johann Philipp, son of Ludwig, was knighted in Vienna while the suffix " of Kölburg " received.

• Profesto Dyonisii: [. 8:10 ] 1489 immatr. in Tübingen as " John Kul de Constantia, pauper ," March 1491 Bacc. (aka Brassicanus ), August 1493 Mag ( Köll ); .... teacher Melanchthon, Heinrich Bebel's friend; Author of grammar " Institutiones grammaticae elimatissimae .... ", first published in 1508, controversial bestseller, printed to 1519 15 times.