KONRAD See also: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
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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
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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
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Returning in 1502, the landgraf of See also:Hesse promoted him to high See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office
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The See also:post was not congenial; he resigned it (1503) for a small See also:salary as canonicus in See also:Gotha
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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
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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
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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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, but not the See also:establishment of a See also:rival
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Like Erasmus, he was with See also:Luther in his See also:early See also:stage, but deserted him in his later development
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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
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He died at Gotha on the 3oth of See also:March (See also:Good See also:Friday) 1526
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See F
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W
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Kampschulte, See also:Die Universitdt Erfurt (1858–186o) ; C
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See also:Krause, Eobanus See also:Hessus (1879); L
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Geiger, in Allgemeine Deutsche Biog
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(1886) ; C
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Krause, Der Briefwechsel See also:des Mutianus Rufus (1885) ; another collection by K
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GiIlert (189o)
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