STEPHAN FRIDOLIN. - Franciscan theologian (at least from 1479), born in Winnenden (Württemberg) in 1430, reader and preacher among the Poor Clares in Nuremberg, where he died on 17 August 1498. He composed sermons on the hymns and psalms of the Little Canonical Hours, especially Compline. He was pious and learned, particularly in languages and history.
Historical work: Von den Kaiserangestichten.
Ascetical works: Der Schatzbehälter (Nuremberg 1491); Der geistliche Herbst (ibid. 1575 and 1581); Der geistliche Mai (Landshut 1533). German sermons published by Ulrich Schmidt, Mittelalterliche deutsche Predigten des Franziskers p. St. F., fascicle 1: Predigten über die Prim (Munich 1913).
BIBL.: Ul. Schmidt, S. F., ein Franziskanerprediger ausgehenden Mittelalters, Munich 1911; F. Schubert, s.V. in LThK, IV, col. 183.