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mately proceeding M.A. On 31 Oct.
1514 he was incorporated at Freiburg
on his Wittenberg degree. A poem by
him in praise of Freiburg was printed
through a bookseller-friend—Jerome
Husaerus of Bludenz—by John Schott
at Strasburg, 7 March 1515. But this
edition was badly executed, and in the
summer of 1515 he went to Basle,
where he republished his poem with
a preface dated 1 August, and also
began to work with Froben (cf. Ep. 358
introd.). By 1516 he was again at
Freiburg, lecturing on poetry and
petitioning for a regular appointment
as lecturer, which he subsequently
received. On 15 March 1517 he
addressed a Carmen Paraeneticum, printed
at Basle, to Philip, Count Palatine of
the Rhine. In the spring of 1519 with
many of his fellow-professors he fled
to Constance, because of the plague,
and wasaway till March 1520. During
his absence he published his poem on
Freiburg again with Froben, April
1519; prefixing to it a poem on St.
5. Nolumus D.
Lambert, Freiburg’s patron saint. On
his return he contributed a letter in
defence of Erasmus to the Epistolae
eruditorum virorum, Basle, Froben, Aug.
1520. In March 1521 he received the
poet's laurel at Worms. By rser he
had begun to favour Luther, and in
spite of University protests he was
still inclining towards the Reformers
in 1523 (VE. 349); but he did not go
far in that direction. The remainder
of his life was spent at Freiburg; until
he went to Strasburg for an operation,
of which he died (ZE. 125).
See Schreiber, Gesch. d. Univ. Freiburg,
i. 85-91 ; Bocking ; and J. Neff in some
Donaueschingen Programms, 1896-8.
2. Renus] Of. Ep. 348. 8-10. These
experiences evoked the verses entitled :
Cum multos menses perpetuo pluisset ct per
vnam modo dieculum se mundo sol osten¬
disset, rursusyue non minus odiose quam
antea plueret, Erasmus Basileam repetens in
itinere sic lusit in Iowem, AN. M.D.xv } and
published in the Epigrammata, Basle,
Froben, March 1518, p. 353.