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2, Peutunger] of Augsburg (15
Oct. 1465—28 Dec. 1547). He went
to Italy in 1482 to study law, and
visited Padua, Bologna, Florence, and
Rome. In 1490 he entered the service
of Augsburg, and in 1497 was appointed
town-clerk; the missions which he
discharged in this capacity and in the
service of the Swabian League in all
directions—to Rome 1491, to Vienna
1506, to the Netherlands 1513 and
1520—enabled him to pursue the study
of archaeology by collecting coins,
MSS., &c. His Romanae vetustatis Frag¬
menta in Augusta Vindelicorum et eius
diocesi, Augsburg, Ratdolt, 1505, was
the first attempt to deal with Roman
inscriptions in Germany; and he is
also eredited by Zasius with a profound
knowledge of Roman law. He was
made an Imperial Councillor by Maxi¬
milian, to whom he was much
attached, and the construction of
whose memorial at Innsbruck he
subsequently superintended. In 1534
he resigned his appointment as town¬
clerk and gave himself wholly to his
studies, in which throughout his life
he was assisted by his gifted wife
Margaret. Some portions of his library
and collections still exist in the
libraries of Augsburg and Munich.
See ADB. The famous map which
pears his name was bequeathed by
him to Celtis. His acquaintance with
Beatus Rhenanus had perhaps begun
already in 1510 (BRE. 18) ; and in 1513
he dedicated to Beatus an edition of
Paulus Cortesius in Sententias (BRE. 33).
19. Ioannis] John Kuno (Conon)
of Nuremberg (c. 1463—21 Feb. 1513), @
learned Dominican, who studied under
Aldus and John of Crete at Venice,
and under Marcus Musurus and Scipio
Carteromachus at Padua. In 1505 he
was sent by Aldus to request Maxi¬
milian’s patronage for the Neacademia
(AE, 50 ; cf. a letter of Aldus in Archivio
Veneto, xxi, 1881, p. 269). He became
an eminent Greek scholar, and in 1507
published at Padua à translation of
Basils De differentia oùoias Kal vro¬
ordcews, dedicated to Jodocus Gallus
(cf. CPR. p. 60). In 1511 or perhaps
earlier he came to Basle and worked
for Amorbach’s press, helping with
Jerome (Ep. 335.305 seq.); and teaching
his sons Bruno and Boniface, who were