BRASSICANUS, JOHANN ALEXANDER. – Catholic humanist, born in 1500 and died in Vienna in 1539. His family was from Constance and was called Köll (cabbage, a name he Latinized as B.). A very celebrated humanist in his day and one of the most distinguished members of the Viennese circle, he openly declared himself for Catholicism against Luther, especially following his studies on the Holy Fathers, of whose works he published in particular Salvian’s De gubernatione Dei (1530) and Gennadius’s De sinceritate christiana fidei dialogus (1530).
BIBL.: Hurter, II (1906), col. 1275 ff.; J. Sauer, s. V. in The Cath. Enc., II, p. 744. Antonio Ferrua