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SPALATIN, GEORGE

SPALATIN, See also:
GEORGE
GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
GEORGE, LAKE
GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)
GEORGE , the name taken by George Burkhardt (1484-1545), an important figure in the See also:

HISTORY

history of the See also:

Reformation, who was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 17th of See also:

JANUARY

January 1484, at Spalt (whence he assumed the name Spalatinus), near See also:

NUREMBERG (Ger. Nurnberg)

Nuremberg, where his See also:

FATHER

father was a See also:

tanner. He went to Nuremberg for his See also:

EDUCATION

education when he was thirteen years of See also:

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

age, and soon afterwards to the university of See also:

ERFURT

Erfurt, where he took his See also:

BACHELOR (from Med. Lat. baccalarius, with its late and rare variant baccalaris—cf. Ital. baccalare—through O. Fr. bacheler)

bachelor's degree in 1499. There he attracted the See also:

NOTICE

notice of Nikolaus Marschalk, the most influential See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor, who made Spalatin his See also:

AMANUENSIS (a Latin word, derived from the phrase servus a menu, slave of the hand, a secretary)

amanuensis and took him to the new university of See also:

WITTENBERG

Wittenberg in 1502. In 1505 Spalatin returned to Erfurt to study See also:

jurisprudence, was recommended to See also:

Conrad Mutianus, and was welcomed by the little See also:

BAND

band of See also:

German humanists of whom Mutianus was See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief. His friend got him a See also:

POST

post as teacher in the monastery at Georgenthal, and in 1508 he was ordained See also:

PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest by See also:

Bishop Johann von Laasphe, who had ordained See also:

LUTHER, MARTIN (1483-1546)

Luther. In 1509 Mutianus recommended him to See also:

Frederick III. the See also:

Wise, the elector of See also:

Saxony, who employed him to See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act as See also:

TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor to his See also:

NEPHEW

nephew, the future elector, See also:

John Frederick. Spalatin speedily gained the confidence of the elector, who sent him to Wittenberg in 1511 to act as tutor to his nephews, and procured for him a See also:

CANON

canon's See also:

STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors

stall in See also:

ALTENBURG

Altenburg. In 1512 the elector made him his librarian. He was promoted to be See also:

court See also:

CHAPLAIN

chaplain and secretary, and took See also:

charge of all the elector's private and public See also:

correspondence. His solid scholarship, and especially his unusual mastery of See also:

Greek, made him indispensable to the Saxon court. Spalatin had never cared for See also:

THEOLOGY

theology, and, although a priest and a preacher, had been a See also:

mere humanist. How he first became acquainted with Luther it is impossible to say—probably at Wittenberg; but the reformer from the first exercised a See also:

GREAT

great See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power over him, and became his chief counsellor in all moral and religious matters.

His letters to Luther have been lost, but Luther's answers remain, and are extremely interesting. There is scarcely any fact in the opening history of the Re-formation which is not connected in some way with Spalatin's name. He read Luther's writings to the elector, and translated for his benefit those in Latin into German. He accompanied Frederick to the See also:

DIET

Diet of See also:

Augsburg in 1518, and shared in the negotiations with the papal legates, See also:

CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

Cardinal See also:

CAJETAN (GAETANUS), CARDINAL (1470-1534)

Cajetan and Karl von Miltitz. He was with the elector when See also:

Charles was chosen See also:

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

emperor and when he was crowned. He was with his See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master at the Diet of See also:

WORMS

Worms. In See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short, he stood beside Frederick as his confidential adviser in all the troubled See also:

DIPLOMACY (Fr. diplomatic)

diplomacy of the earlier years of the Reformation. Spalatin would have dissuaded Luther again and again from See also:

PUBLISHING

publishing books orengaging in overt acts against the Papacy, but when the thing was done none was so ready to translate the See also:

BOOK

book or to justify the act. On the See also:

DEATH

death of Frederick the Wise in 1525 Spalatin no longer lived at the Saxon court. But he attended the imperial diets, and was the See also:

CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant and valued adviser of the See also:

ELECTORS (Ger. Kurfursten, from Kilren, O.H.G. kiosan, choose, elect, and Furst, prince)

electors, John and John Frederick. He went into See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence as canon at Altenburg, and incited the See also:

CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter to See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

institute reforms somewhat unsuccessfully. He married in the same See also:

YEAR

year.

During the later portion of his See also:

LIFE

life, from 1526 onwards, he was chiefly engaged in the visitation of churches and See also:

SCHOOLS

schools in electoral Saxony, See also:

REPORTING

reporting on the See also:

CONFISCATION (from Lat. confiscare, to consign to the fiscus, or imperial treasury)

confiscation and application of ecclesiastical revenues, and he was asked to undertake the same See also:

WORK

work for Albertine Saxony. He was also permanent visitor of Wittenberg University. Shortly before his death he See also:

fell into a See also:

state of profound See also:

MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy, and died on the 16th of January 1545, at Altenburg. Spalatin See also:

LEFT

left behind him a large number of See also:

LITERARY

literary remains, both published and unpublished. His See also:

ORIGINAL

original writings are almost all See also:

HISTORICAL

historical. Perhaps the most important of them are: Annales reformationis, edited by E. S. See also:

CYPRIAN, SAINT [Caecilius Cyprianus, called THASCIUS] (c. 200–258)

Cyprian (See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1718) ; and " Das Leben and See also:

die Zeitgeschichte Friedrichs See also:

des Weisen," published in Georg Spalatins Historischer Nachlass and Briefe, edited by C. G. Neudecker and L. See also:

Preller (See also:

JENA

Jena, 1851). A See also:

list of them may be found in A.

Seelheim's George Spalatin als stichs. Historiographer (1876). There is no See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good life of Spalatin; nor can there be until his letters have been collected and edited, a work still to be done. There is an excellent See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article on Spalatin, however, by T. Kolde, in See also:

Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadia, Bd. xviii. (13o6).

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