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CONRAD OF LEONBERG

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(Leontorius)

A Cistercian monk and Humanist, b. at Leonberg in Swabia in 1460; d. at
Engenthal near Basle after 1520. He took vows at the Cistercian monastery of
Maulbronn in the Neckar district, which, unlike most other Cistercian
monasteries of those times, was then enjoying its golden age. In 1490 he became
secretary to the general of his order. When the German Humanists began to revive
the study of the Latin and Greek classics, as Conrad deplored the barbarous
Latin in which the scholastic philosophers and theologians of Germany were
expounding the doctrine of their great masters, he was in full accord with their
endeavours to restore the classical Latinity of the Ciceronian Age. He also, by
word and example, encouraged the study of Greek, but was especially attracted by
the great Hebrew scholar Reuchlin (d. 1522) who inspired Conrad with his own
enthusiasm for the study of Hebrew. Like Reuchlin, his friend and teacher,
Conrad was convinced of the necessity of Hebrew for a thorough understanding of
the Holy Scripture, and became one of the few great Hebrew scholars of his time.
He was in correspondence with the best writers in sacred and profane literature,
and was highly esteemed by the learned men of his period. For a time he appears
to have been engaged as proof-reader in the celebrated printing-office of
Amerbach at Basle. Besides writing numerous Latin poems, orations, and epistles,
he published (Basle, 1506-8) the Latin Bible with the "Postilla" and
"Moralitates" of the Oxford Franciscan Nicolas de Lyra, together with the
"Additiones" of Paul of Burgos (d. 1435) and the "Replicæ" of Mathias Thoring
(d. 1469).

SOURCES

WION, Lignum Vitæ (Venice, 1595), I, 78; HURTER, Nomenclator (Innsbruck, 1907),
II, 949; HAGEN, Deutschlands literarische Verhältnisse im Reformations-Zeitalter
(Erlangen, 1841), I, 151.

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APA citation. Ott, M. (1908). Conrad of Leonberg. In The Catholic Encyclopedia.
New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04259a.htm

MLA citation. Ott, Michael. "Conrad of Leonberg." The Catholic Encyclopedia.
Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04259a.htm>.

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