ELGARD, NIKOLAUS. - Bishop, b. at Elcherait (Luxembourg) in 1547, d. at Erfurt on 11 Aug. 1587. Ordained priest at Trier, he continued his studies at the German College in Rome. A canon of Augsburg in 1573, in the following years he joined with Kaspar Gropper in the work of defending Catholicism in Germany.

He went several times on visitation to Eichsfeld, to Mainz, Bamberg, Würzburg, in Franconia, in Westphalia, in Romania. Elected auxiliary bishop of Erfurt (1577), on the proposal of Card. Morone, with whom he had been present at the Diet of Regensburg (1576), he was among the most noted champions of the Catholic reform in the center of Germany. He left
unpublished a pamphlet, De laude virginitatis, published posthumously.

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BIBL.: A. Neyen, Biographie Luxemburg, Luxembourg 1866, p. 161; W. E. Schwarz, Die Nuntiatur-Korrespondenz K. Gropersnebst verwandten Aktenstücken (1573-76), Paderborn 1898; Pastor, IX, pp. 534-35 and passim; Eubel, III, 345, app. 1.

Antonio Ciscellini

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