biography
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Celtis, Conrad or Konrad
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originally Conrad Pickel or Bickel
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pronunciation:
[seltis]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1459–1508)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Wipfeld, near Schweinfurt, SC Germany. The son of a family of vintners, he left home to study in Cologne, and went on to Erfurt, Heidelberg, and Leipzig, producing in 1486 his first work, Ars versificandi et carminum. Declared ‘poeta laureatus’ in Nuremberg in 1487, he went on to travel widely in Europe. A humanist and professor of rhetoric and poetry, he set up learned societies modelled on those of Italy, such as the Sodalitas litteraria Rhenania (1493). His neo-Latin poems, influenced by Horace and Ovid, including Quattuor libri amorum (1502, published 1934), celebrate sensual love. He also wrote masques for the Viennese court, glorifying the emperor. He is remembered for encouraging classical studies and as the publisher (1500) of Tacitus's Germania and the dramatic works of Hrotsvithh von Gandersheim. |
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