JOHANNES See also:

• JOHANNES TRITHEMIUS (1462–1516)

TRITHEMIUS (1462–1516)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German historian and divine, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Trittenheim on the Moselle, on the 1st of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1462 . His name was originally " von Heidenberg," but according to the See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion of the times he adopted the name of his birthplace . After an unhappy childhood, he studied at See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg, and at the See also:

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

age of twenty entered the See also:

• BENEDICTINE

Benedictine monastery of Sponheim near See also:

• KREUZNACH (CREUZNACH)

Kreuznach, of which, in 1485, he became See also:

• ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
• ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
• ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
• ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
• ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)

abbot . He established an excellent library, and through his strict discipline and consummate scholarship soon raised the monastery to an educational institution of a high See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order . In 1506 he resigned, and was appointed soon after abbot of the monastery of St See also:

• JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

Jakob at See also:

• WURZBURG

Wurzburg; and in this See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city he died on the 13th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1516 . See also:

• TRITHEMIUS, JOHANNES (1462–1516)

Trithemius was, though an accomplished See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, untrustworthy as a chronicler, and his Annales hirsaugienses (1514), Amides de origine Francorum, as well as his Chronologia mystica (1516) are, on this See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account, of doubtful value . More reliance can, however, be placed on his De scriploribus ecclesiasticis (1494) and the Catalogus illustrium virorum Germaniae (1491) . He also wrote a fanatical See also:

• BOOK

book against sorcery, Antipalus maleficiorum (15o8) . See Silbernagel, J . Trithemius (1868; 2nd ed., 1885); Schneegans . See also:

• ABT, FRANZ (1819-1885)

Abt Joh . Trithemius and Kloster Sponheim (1882) ; and F .

X . Wegele, in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie .