CORRADO di MEGENBERG (de Monte Puellarum). – German canon, theologian, historian, jurist, and polemicist, born probably at Mainsberg ca. 1308–10, died at Ratisbona on 14 (according to others, 11) April 1374. He studied at Erfurt and then at the University of Paris, where he received his doctorate in Arts and taught for some time. Returning to his homeland, he taught and directed the school of S. Stefano in Vienna (1340); he then devoted himself to preaching at Ratisbona, where he settled ca. 1342, becoming parish priest and then canon of S. Ulrico.
Various works demonstrate his multifaceted culture and the various doctrinal battles in which he took part. Mention may be made of a short treatise on physics, Deutsche Sphaera (ed. 1912), and the encyclopedic Buch der Natur (ca. 1350), widely disseminated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Taking the Pope’s side in the regalistic and jurisdictional struggles with the Empire (Ludovico il Bavaro), he wrote: Planctus Ecclesiae in Germania (1337), a work paralleled by the famous De Planctus Ecclesiae of the Spanish Minorite Alvarez Pelayo (died ca. 1350); Oeconomica (1353), in which he establishes, against Marsilio Ficino of Padua and Giovanni di Jandun, the true relationship between Church and State; Tractatus de electione Caroli IV sive Tractatus pro romana Ecclesia et pontifice Ioanne XXII contra Guillelmum Occam (1355); Tract. contra Mendicantes ad papam Urbanum V; the antiheretical work Laerima Ecclesiae, or De erroribus Beghardorum et Beginarum; the philosophical-religious work Speculum humanae felicitatis in three books; various historical and juridical studies and a chronicle of Ratisbona (Statuta et Consuetudines...); De limitibus parochialibus... (ed. 1906); etc.