GRESEMUNDT, DIETRICH. - German humanist, born at Spira in 1475, died at Mainz in 1512. As a young man he went to Rome, studied law at Italian universities, and took his doctorate at Ferrara; he then lived at Mainz, first as a canon, in 1506 as spiritual vicar, and in 1508 as protonotary to the archbishop.
A friend of Wimpheling and the Heidelberg humanists, learned but of little talent, he wrote: *In septem artium liberalium defensorem dialogus* (1494); *De furore germanico diebus genialibus carnispirviti dialogus* (1495), against the “mad custom” of Carnival; *De violata iuxta Moguntiam S. Cruce historia et carmen* (published posthumously by J. Wimpheling, 1514). Johannes Trithemius recounts his biography in the *Catal. virorum illustrium* (in M. Fercher, *Trith. Opera hist.*, I, Frankfurt 1601, p. 176), excusing himself for placing beside famous ancient names that of a young man; Beatus Rhenanus mentions him in a letter to J. Reuchlin (in *Reuchlinis Briefwechsel*, Tübingen 1875, p. 115) and addresses a letter to him (Arg., pridie idus ianuarii 1510) preserved in *Pomponii Laeti opera* (Strasbourg 1516, f. LIII).