Celtes (Celtis), Conrad - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 744

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CELTES (CELTIS), CONRAD. - Humanist (his true surname was Pickel), b. at Wipfeld, near Würzburg, on 1 Feb. 1459, d. at Vienna on 3 Feb. 1508. He was one of the foremost propagators of paganizing humanism in the German lands. He travelled extensively, especially in Italy (1486), Poland, and Hungary; in 1487 he received the title of poeta laureatus; he founded humanist literary societies (Sodalitas rhenana, Hungarorum, Danubiana), was professor at Ingolstadt (1492), and was summoned by Emperor Massimiliano to Vienna (1497). His merit lies in having given a vig-

orous impulse to classical studies and to universal and local history (noteworthy is the first publication of the comedies of Hroswitha of Gandersheim, 1501).

Works: Ars versificandi, Lipsia 1486; Libri umorum, Norimberga 1502; Odae, Vienna 1513; etc.

BIBL.: E. Klüpfel, De vita et scriptis C. C., Friburgo in Br. 1827; J. W. Nagel-J. Zeidler, Deutsch-Osterr. Literaturgeschichte, I, Vienna 1899, p. 441 ff.; C. Bauch, Die Rezeption des Humanismus in Wien, ibid. 1903; A. Wernunghoff, C. C. und sein Buch über Nürnberg, ibid. 1921; E. Tomek, Kirchengesch. Österreichs, II, Innsbruck-Vienna 1948, passim. Giuseppe Löwe