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RHENANUS, BEATUS (1485-1547)

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RHENANUS, See also:BEATUS (1485-1547) , See also:German humanist, was See also:born in 1485 at See also:Schlettstadt in See also:Alsace, where his See also:father, named Bild, a native of Rheinau (hence the surname Rhenanus), was a prosperous See also:butcher. He received his See also:early See also:education at the' famous Latin school of Schlettstadt, and afterwards (1503) went to See also:Paris, where he came under the See also:influence of Jacobus See also:Faber Stapulensis, an eminent Aristotelian. In 1511 he removed to See also:Basel, where he became intimate with See also:Desiderius See also:Erasmus, and took an active See also:share in the See also:publishing enterprises of Joannes See also:Froben (q.v.). In 1526 he returned to Schlettstadt, and devoted himself to a See also:life of learned leisure, enlivened with epistolary and See also:personal intercourse with Erasmus (the See also:printing of whose more important See also:works he personally superintended) and many other scholars of his See also:time. He died at See also:Strassburg on the loth of See also:July 1547. His earliest publication was a See also:biography of See also:Geiler of Kaisers-See also:berg (1510). Of his subsequent works the See also:principal are Rerum Germanicarum Libri III. (1531), and See also:editions of Velleius Palerculus (ed. princeps, from a MS. discovered by himself, 1522); See also:Tacitus (,51q, exclusive of the Histories); Livius (1535); and Erasmus (with a life, 9 vols. fol., 1540-41). See A. Horawitz, Beatus Rhenanus (1872), and by the same, See also:Des Beatus Rhenanus literarische Tatigkeit (2 vols., 1872) ; also the See also:notice by R. Hartfelder in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographic.

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