NAUSEA (GRAU), FRIEDRICH. — Theologian and bishop, born at Waischenfeld (hence the name Blancicampianus) around 1496, died at Trent on 6 February 1552. In 1524 Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio took him on as his secretary at the Diet of Nuremberg and at the Conference of Regensburg, where he was assigned to negotiate with Melanchthon and Erasmus.
Appointed in 1525 parish priest and canon of the collegiate church of St. Bartholomew in Frankfurt am Main, he was forced to flee because of the violence of the Lutherans, and went to Mainz, where he held the office of cathedral preacher. In 1534 Ferdinand appointed him his counsellor and court preacher. In 1538 he was appointed coadjutor to his friend J. Fabri, bishop of Vienna. He took part in the religious colloquies of Hagenau and Worms (1540–41), distinguishing himself through his learning and conciliatory spirit. In 1541 he succeeded Fabri in the episcopal see of Vienna and for eleven years worked tirelessly to resolve the religious conditions of the diocese. He enthusiastically took part in the discussions concerning the necessity for and organization of the forthcoming council and worked tirelessly for its success. In 1545 Ferdinand I appointed him his envoy to the same council, but it was impossible for him to attend it; instead, he took part in the second period (1551–52) and was overtaken by death at Trent.
Principal writings: Rerum conciliarium libri V (Leipzig 1538, cf. Concilium Tridentinum, XII, pp. LXVI–LXIX); Ad Paulum Pont. Max. pro Tridentina synodo miscellanearum libri VIII (1543, published in Conc. Trid., XII, pp. 364–426); Ad Marcellum Cervini pro religione christiana conservanda (1543, ibid., pp. 428–31); Super deligendo futuro in Germania synodi loco catacrisis (Vienna 1454); Catechismus catholicus (Cologne 1543); Centuriae IV homiliarum (ibid. 1530). The catalogue of his writings, compiled by himself (up to 1546), is in: Epistolae miscellanene ad Nauseam libri X (Basel 1551).