22 Facts About Conrad Celtes

Conrad Celtes was a German Renaissance humanist scholar and poet of the German Renaissance born in Franconia.

Conrad Celtes led the theatrical performances at the Viennese court and reformed the syllabi.

Conrad Celtes is praised as "the greatest lyric genius and certainly the greatest organizer and popularizer of German Humanism".

Conrad Celtes further undertook lecture tours to Rome, Florence, Bologna and Venice.

At this great imperial ceremonial gathering in Nuremberg, Conrad Celtes was at the same time presented with a doctoral degree.

Conrad Celtes founded a learned society, based on the Roman academies.

Conrad Celtes made stops at Regensburg, Passau and Nuremberg.

In 1494, Conrad Celtes rediscovered Hrosvitha's works written in Latin in the monastery of St Emmeram in Regensburg.

Conrad Celtes wrote her in Latin and called her the "new Hrotsvitha".

In 1497 Conrad Celtes was called to Vienna by the emperor Maximilian I, who honored him as teacher of the art of poetry and conversation with an imperial Privilegium, the first of its kind.

Conrad Celtes died in Vienna a few years later of syphilis.

Conrad Celtes' teachings had lasting effects, particularly in the fields of classical languages and history.

Conrad Celtes brought systematic methods to the teaching of Latin and furthered the study of the classics.

Conrad Celtes was the first to teach the history of the world as a whole.

Conrad Celtes was the first early modern humanist who introduced the term "topography" as a critical appraisal of the Ptolemaic dichotomy between cosmography and chorography, which was becoming insufficient to reflect the rapidly changing contours of Europe.

Conrad Celtes was the foremost cartographic writer in German lands.

Conrad Celtes then stole the manuscript and had it mass-printed across the Empire in 1501.

Conrad Celtes discovered a map showing roads of the Roman Empire, the Tabula Peutingeriana, or Peutinger Table.

Conrad Celtes collected numerous Greek and Latin manuscripts in his function as librarian of the imperial library that was founded by Maximilian, and he claimed to have discovered the missing books of Ovid's Fasti in a letter to the Venetian publisher Aldus Manutius in 1504.

The purported new verses had actually been composed by an 11th-century monk and were known to the Empire of Nicaea according to William of Rubruck, but even so, many contemporary scholars believed Conrad Celtes and continued to write about the existence of the missing books until well into the 17th century.

Conrad Celtes's epigrams, edited by Kark Hartfelder, were published in Berlin in 1881.

Conrad Celtes was more of a free-thinking humanist and placed a higher value on the ancient pagan, rather than the Christian ideal.