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KONRAD MUTIAN (1471-1526)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 99 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MUTIAN (1471-1526)  , See also:German humanist, was See also:born in Homberg on the 15th of See also:October 1471 of well-to-do parents named Mut, and was subsequently known as Konrad Mutianus See also:Rufus, from his red See also:hair . At See also:Deventer under See also:Alexander See also:Hegius he had See also:Erasmus as schoolfellow; proceeding(1486) to the university of See also:Erfurt, he took the See also:master's degree in 1492 . From 1495 he travelled in See also:Italy, taking the See also:doctor's degree in See also:canon See also:law at See also:Bologna . Returning in 1502, the landgraf of See also:Hesse promoted him to high See also:office . The See also:post was not congenial; he resigned it (1503) for a small See also:salary as canonicus in See also:Gotha . See also:Mutian was a See also:man of See also:great See also:influence in a select circle especially connected with the university of Erfurt, and known as the Mutianiscl er Bund, which included Eoban See also:Hess, Crotus Rubeanus, Justus See also:Jonas and other leaders of See also:independent thought . He had no public ambition; except in See also:correspondence, and as an epigrammatist, he was no writer, but he furnished ideas to those who wrote . He may deserve the See also:title which has been given him as "precursor of the See also:Reformation," in so far as he desired the reform of the See also:Church, but not the See also:establishment of a See also:rival . Like Erasmus, he was with See also:Luther in his See also:early See also:stage, but deserted him in his later development . Though he had personally no See also:hand in it, the Epistolae obscurorum virorum (due especially to Crotus Rubeanus) was the outcome of the Reuchlinists in his Bund . He died at Gotha on the 3oth of See also:March (See also:Good See also:Friday) 1526 . See F .

W . Kampschulte, See also:

Die Universitdt Erfurt (1858–186o) ; C . See also:Krause, Eobanus See also:Hessus (1879); L . Geiger, in Allgemeine Deutsche Biog . (1886) ; C . Krause, Der Briefwechsel See also:des Mutianus Rufus (1885) ; another collection by K . GiIlert (189o) . (A .

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