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See also:TRITHEMIUS, JOHANNES (1462–1516) , See also:German historian and divine, was See also:born at Trittenheim on the Moselle, on the 1st of See also:February 1462. His name was originally " von Heidenberg," but according to the See also:fashion of the times he adopted the name of his birthplace. After an unhappy childhood, he studied at See also:Heidelberg, and at the See also:age of twenty entered the See also:Benedictine monastery of Sponheim near See also:Kreuznach, of which, in 1485, he became See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot. He established an excellent library, and through his strict discipline and consummate scholarship soon raised the monastery to an educational institution of a high See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order. In 1506 he resigned, and was appointed soon after abbot of the monastery of St See also:Jakob at See also:Wurzburg; and in this See also:city he died on the 13th of See also:December 1516. Trithemius was, though an accomplished See also:scholar, untrustworthy as a chronicler, and his Annales hirsaugienses (1514), Amides de origine Francorum, as well as his Chronologia mystica (1516) are, on this See also:account, of doubtful value. More reliance can, however, be placed on his De scriploribus ecclesiasticis (1494) and the Catalogus illustrium virorum Germaniae (1491). He also wrote a fanatical See also:book against sorcery, Antipalus maleficiorum (15o8).
See Silbernagel, J. Trithemius (1868; 2nd ed., 1885); Schneegans. See also:Abt Joh. Trithemius and Kloster Sponheim (1882) ; and F. X. Wegele, in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.
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