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Reformation, although his subsequent conduct showed that he was actuated by selfish motives. The university was seriously weakened by the growing popularity of the new university of See also:

WITTENBERG

Wittenberg, and Hessus endeavoured (but without success) to gain a living by the practice of See also:

MEDICINE

medicine. Through the See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

Camerarius and See also:

MELANCHTHON, FHILIPP (1497–155o)

Melanchthon, he obtained a post at See also:

NUREMBERG (Ger. Nurnberg)

Nuremberg (1526), but, finding a See also:

REGULAR

regular See also:

LIFE

life distasteful, he again went back to Erfurt (1533)• But it was not the Erfurt he had known; his old See also:

friends were dead or had See also:

LEFT

left the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place; the university was deserted. A lengthy poem gained him the favour of the See also:

LANDGRAVE (Ger. Landgraf, from Land, " a country" and Graf, "count" )

landgrave of Hesse, by whom he was summoned in 1536 as professor of See also:

POETRY

poetry and See also:

HISTORY

history to See also:

Marburg, where he died on the sth of See also:

OCTOBER

October 1540. Hessus, who was considered the foremost Latin poet of his See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, was a facile See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse-maker, but not a true poet. He wrote what be thought was likely to pay or secure him the favour of some important See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person.

He wrote local, See also:

HISTORICAL

historical and military poems, idylls, epigrams and occasional pieces, collected under the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Sylvae. His most popular See also:

WORKS

works were See also:

TRANSLATIONS

translations of the See also:

Psalms into Latin distichs (which reached See also:

FORTY

forty See also:

EDITIONS

editions) and of the Iliad into hexameters. His mcst See also:

ORIGINAL

original poem was the Heroides in See also:

IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of See also:

OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, consisting of letters from See also:

HOLY

holy See also:

WOMEN

women, from the Virgin See also:

Mary down to Kunigunde, wife of the See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

Henry H. His Epistolae were edited by his friend Camerarius, who also wrote his life (1553). There are later accounts of him by M. See also:

Hertz (1860), G. Schwertzell (1874) and C. See also:

KRAUSE, KARL CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH (1781—1832)

Krause (1879); see also D. F. See also:

Strauss, Ulrich von Hutten (Eng. trans., 1874). His poems on Nuremberg and other towns have been edited with commentaries and 16th-See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century illustrations by J. See also:

NEFF, FELIX (1798-1829)

Neff and V. von Loga in M.

Herrmann and S. Szamatolski's Lateinische Literaturdenkmdler See also:

des X V. u. X VI. Jakrhunderts (See also:

Berlin, 1896).

End of Article: HESSUS, HELIUS EOBANUS (1488-1540)

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