Johannes Cuno (humanist)

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John Cuno (* about 1462 / 1463 in Nuremberg , † 21st February 1513 in Basel ) was a German Dominican and Renaissance humanist .

Cuno came from a humble background and entered the Nuremberg Dominican monastery around 1480 . He began studying Greek with Willibald Pirckheimer , which he continued from 1496 with Johannes Reuchlin in Heidelberg . He also frequented the circle of humanists around Johann III. von Dalberg , the bishop of Worms . At the turn of the century he went to Venice . There he made the acquaintance of the printer Aldus Manutius and his Greek colleague Markos Musuros . In 1501 he took on a teaching position in the Dominican monastery of Liebenau near Worms . In 1504 he was again with Aldus Manutius in Venice. This commissioned him with an embassy to the Emperor Maximilian I. From 1506 to 1509 he heard lectures by Markos Musuros at the University of Padua . In 1510 Cuno settled in Basel, where he lived in the preacher's monastery. He became a proofreader in Johann Amerbach's print shop and taught his sons. He also gave Greek lessons, in which Beatus Rhenanus also took part. He entrusted his estate to him, which he later bequeathed to the humanist library in Schlettstadt .

Cuno's interest was in patristicism . He also examined the points of contention that separated the churches of the West and the East from one another. In addition to teaching, he also worked as a copyist , as a translator from Greek into Latin and as an editor. In addition to working on the edition of Hieronymus von Stridon in the publishing house of Johann Amerbach, he translated several church fathers ( Gregory of Nazianz , Gregory of Nyssa , Basil the Great , John Chrysostom and the treatise De natura hominis of Nemesios of Emesa , which at the time was Gregory of Nyssa was attributed).

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SURNAME Cuno, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cono, Johannes; Conon, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Dominican and Renaissance humanist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1462
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1513
Place of death Basel