Nikolaus Basellius

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Title page of the world chronicle of Johannes Nauclerus published by Nikolaus Basellius in 1516

Nikolaus Basellius also Baselius (* around 1470 in Dürkheim ; † around 1532) was a Benedictine, writer and chronicler.

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Basellius came from Dürkheim in the Palatinate and entered the Benedictine order . The Hirsau abbot Blasius Scheltrup sent him to Sponheim , to Johannes Trithemius , to learn Greek and Latin there. Then he studied at the University of Tübingen and was a student of Johannes Reuchlin . From 1496 to 1529 he is recorded as a monk, scribe and librarian in the Hirsau monastery , in 1511 and 1512 as prior in the Hirsau branch in Schönrain am Main . From 1524 to 1527 Nikolaus Basellius was the owner of the Marienpfarrei Ditzingen .

The Benedictine wrote or published various writings. His best-known work is the continuation of the unpublished world chronicle of Tübingen university rector Johannes Nauclerus († 1510), from 1501 to 1515. Nikolaus Basellius edited the chronicle he continued and published it in 1516 as a complete work. Johannes Reuchlin wrote the foreword. Also at the Hirsauer chronicle of Johannes Trithemius Basellius played a decisive role. He maintained contacts with Konrad Pellikan , Erasmus von Rotterdam , Mutianus Rufus , Willibald Pirckheimer , Philipp Melanchthon and the Speyer printer Peter Drach . The historian Felix Heinzer describes him as “a central figure in the late blooming of Hirsau” .

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  1. ^ Isidor Silbernagl : Johannes Trithemius: a monograph , Landshut 1868, p. 68; (Digital scan)
  2. Volker Pfeifer: The history of the imperial city of Ulm from the Reformation to the fall of the Old Empire , Volume 17 of: Research on the history of the city of Ulm , Ulm City Archives, 1981, p. 197, ISBN 3170027581 ; (Detail scan)
  3. Klaus Schreiner: Calw, History of a City: Life and Constitutional Forms of a Black Forest Monastery , Archive of the City of Calw, 2005, p. 69, ISBN 3980961559
  4. ^ Journal of Württemberg State History , Volume 21, 1962, p. 391; (Detail scan)
  5. ^ Wilhelm Kühlmann: Killy Literature Lexicon , 2nd edition, Volume 8, p. 506, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 3110220474 ; (Digital scan of Johannes Nauclerus and the world chronicle published by Basellius)