HELIUS EOBANUS See also:

• HELIUS EOBANUS HESSUS (1488-1540)

HESSUS (1488-1540)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German Latin poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Halgehausen in See also:

• HESSE
• HESSE (Lat. Hessia, Ger. Hessen)

Hesse-See also:

• CASSEL
• CASSEL, or KASSEL

Cassel, on the 6th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1488 . His See also:

• FAMILY

family name is said to have been See also:

• KOCH
• KOCH, ROBERT (1843–1910)

Koch; Eoban was the name of a See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

saint; See also:

• HESSUS, HELIUS EOBANUS (1488-1540)

Hessus indicates the See also:

• LAND

land of his See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth, Helius the fact that he was born on See also:

• SUNDAY

Sunday . In 1504 he entered the university of See also:

• ERFURT

Erfurt, and soon after his See also:

• GRADUATION (see also GRADUATE)

graduation was appointed See also:

• RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector of the school of St See also:

• SEVERUS
• SEVERUS, SULPICIUS (c. 363–c. 425)

Severus . This See also:

• POST

post he soon lost, and spent the years 1509-1513 at the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of the See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of Riesenburg . Returning to Erfurt, he was reduced to See also:

• GREAT

great straits owing to his drunken and irregular habits . At length (in 1517) he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of Latin in the university . He was prominently associated with the distinguished men of the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time (Johann See also:

• REUCHLIN, JOHANN (1455–1522)

Reuchlin, See also:

• CONRAD (d. 955)
• CONRAD, JOSEPH (1856– )
• CONRAD, or KONRAD (M. H. Ger. Kuonrdl, i.e. " keen in counsel," Lat. Conradus, It. Corrado, cf. the A.S. Ccenred)

Conrad Peutinger, See also:

• ULRICH

Ulrich von See also:

• HUTTEN, PHILIPP VON (c. 1511—1546)
• HUTTEN, ULRICH VON (1488—1523)

Hutten, Conrad Mutianus), and took See also:

• PART

part in the See also:

• POLITICAL

political, religious and See also:

• LITERARY

literary quarrels of the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, finally declaring in favour of See also:

• LUTHER, MARTIN (1483-1546)

Luther and the See also:

• REFORMATION
• REFORMATION, THE

Reformation, although his subsequent conduct showed that he was actuated by selfish motives . The university was seriously weakened by the growing popularity of the new university of See also:

• WITTENBERG

Wittenberg, and Hessus endeavoured (but without success) to gain a living by the practice of See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine . Through the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• CAMERARIUS, JOACHIM (1500-1574)
• CAMERARIUS, JOACHIM (1534-1598)
• CAMERARIUS, RUDOLF JAKOB (1665–1721)

Camerarius and See also:

• MELANCHTHON, FHILIPP (1497–155o)

Melanchthon, he obtained a post at See also:

• NUREMBERG (Ger. Nurnberg)

Nuremberg (1526), but, finding a See also:

• REGULAR

regular See also:

• LIFE

life distasteful, he again went back to Erfurt (1533)• But it was not the Erfurt he had known; his old See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends were dead or had See also:

• LEFT

left the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place; the university was deserted . A lengthy poem gained him the favour of the See also:

• LANDGRAVE (Ger. Landgraf, from Land, " a country" and Graf, "count" )

landgrave of Hesse, by whom he was summoned in 1536 as professor of See also:

• POETRY

poetry and See also:

• HISTORY

history to See also:

• MARBURG
• MARBURG, COLLOQUY OF (Marburger Religionsgesprach)

Marburg, where he died on the sth of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1540 . Hessus, who was considered the foremost Latin poet of his See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, was a facile See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse-maker, but not a true poet . He wrote what be thought was likely to pay or secure him the favour of some important See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person .

He wrote local, See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical and military poems, idylls, epigrams and occasional pieces, collected under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Sylvae . His most popular See also:

• WORKS

works were See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations of the See also:

• PSALMS, BOOK
• PSALMS, BOOK OF, or PSALTER

Psalms into Latin distichs (which reached See also:

• FORTY

forty See also:

• EDITIONS

editions) and of the Iliad into hexameters . His mcst See also:

• ORIGINAL

original poem was the Heroides in See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, consisting of letters from See also:

• HOLY

holy See also:

• WOMEN

women, from the Virgin See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary down to Kunigunde, wife of the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry H . His Epistolae were edited by his friend Camerarius, who also wrote his life (1553) . There are later accounts of him by M . See also:

• HERTZ, HEINRICH RUDOLF (1857-1894)
• HERTZ, HENRIK (1797–1870)

Hertz (1860), G . Schwertzell (1874) and C . See also:

• KRAUSE, KARL CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH (1781—1832)

Krause (1879); see also D . F . See also:

• STRAUSS, DAVID FRIEDRICH (1808-1874)
• STRAUSS, JOHANN (1804-1849)
• STRAUSS, RICHARD (1864– )

Strauss, Ulrich von Hutten (Eng. trans., 1874) . His poems on Nuremberg and other towns have been edited with commentaries and 16th-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century illustrations by J . See also:

• NEFF, FELIX (1798-1829)

Neff and V. von Loga in M .

Herrmann and S . Szamatolski's Lateinische Literaturdenkmdler See also:

• DES

des X V. u . X VI . Jakrhunderts (See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, 1896) .