GRESEMUNDT, DIETRICH. - German humanist, b. in Speyer in 1475, d. in Mainz in 1512. In his youth he was in Rome, studied jurisprudence at Italian universities, and received his doctorate at Ferrara; he then lived in Mainz, first as canon, in 1506 as spiritual vicar, in 1508 as protonotary of the archbishopric.
A friend of Wimpheling and of the Heidelberg humanists, learned but of little talent, he wrote: In septem artium liberalium defensionem dialogus (1494); De furore germanico diebus genialibus rarnisprivii 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. Fréher, Tirth. Opera hist., I, Frankfurt 1601, p. 176), apologizing for having placed the name of a young man alongside famous ancient names; Beatus Rhenanus speaks of him in a letter to J. Reuchlin (in Reuchlins Briefwechsel, Tübingen 1875, p. 115) and addresses a letter to him (Arg., pridie idus iaunarii 1510) preserved in Pomponii Laeti opera (Strasbourg 1516, f. LIII).
BibliographyHis writings in G. Chr. Joannis, Scriptores historiae Moguntiae, III, Frankfurt am Main 1727, pp. 393-420.
BIBL.: His writings in G. Chr. Joannis, Scriptores historiae Moguntiae, III, Frankfurt am Main 1727, pp. 393-420.
Cori, Alba. “Gresemundt, dietrich.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1164. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/gresemundt-dietrich.
MLA
Cori, Alba. “Gresemundt, dietrich.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1164. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/gresemundt-dietrich.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_gresemundt_dietrich,
author = {Cori, Alba},
title = {Gresemundt, dietrich},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1164},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/gresemundt-dietrich}
}
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