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n 5 LETTERS OF ERASMUS 578. FROM HENRY STROMER. Deventer MS. 91, f. 181. Frankfort. LB. App. 136. 30 April 1517. [Carried by Croke with Epp. 553,4. Henry Stromer (1482 — 26 Noy. 1542) of Auerbach, 8. of Chemnitz, matriculated at Leipzig in the summer of 1497, was M.A. 1502, Rector of the University 1508, M.D. 1511, and Professor of Pathology 1516. During this period he wrote a small mathematical work, Algorithmus linealis, Leipzig, M. Landsberg, 1504, and edited Faber Stapulensis’ introduction to Aristotle’s De Anima, Leipzig, J. Thanner, 30 March 1506; and in May 1516 he published some Obseruationes in German and Latin against the plague, Leipzig, M. Lotther. By Aug. 1516 he had become physician to Albert, Abp. of Mainz (RE. 222); but after marrying in March 1519 he entered the service of Duke George of Saxony, and in August retired to Altenburg hecause of the plague. Returning to Leipzig in Feb. 1520 he was elected on to the Town Council. He became Dean of the Medical Faculty in 1523; and in 1532 built the famous Auerbach Hof. He remained an intimate friend of Erasmus, and was in Basle at the time of the latter’s death (Horawitz ii. 36), having perhaps come thither to attend him. Hutten’s Aula, Augsburg, Grimm and Wyrsung, 17 Sept. 1518, and Chr. Hegendorfi’s Encomium Somni, Leipzig, V. Schumann, 1519, are dedicated to Stromer ; also Croke’s edition of an Eclogue of Ausonius, Leipzig, M. Landsberg, July (1515 or 16), and Mosellanus’ translation of Lucian’s Apologia pro tis qui in aulis principum degunt, Leipzig, s. a. See a life by G. Wustmann, Leipz 1902, reviewed and amplified by O. Clemen in N. Arch. f. stichs. Gesch. xxiv. 1903, pp. 100-10; EE. and ADB. Wustmann prints seven letters from Stromer to Spalatinus, 1519, from the Basle MS. G. I. 31 ; and Clemen three from him to John Lang of Erfurt, 1520-41, from the Gotha MS. Chart. A. 399. A letter from Spiegel to Stromer, describing Maximilian’s last illness, is printed by Knod, J. Spiegel, 1884, PP. 51-3. ] HENRICVS STROMERIVS MEDICVS DOMINO ERASMO 8. Docrissime et eloquentissime domine Erasme, lator praesentis, dominus Richardus Crocus, tui honoris diligens praeco, effecit vt meis ineptiis tuis delicatissimis auribus obstreperem. Tue dignationi ante Cal. Ianuarias scripseram reuerendissimum Archiepiscopum Maguntinensem, dominum meum clementissimum, ardenter desyderare tuam et amicitiam et praesentiam, et pleraque alia quae subita latoris abitio scribere prohibebat. Supplico tibi prioribus litteris respondeas; qua re domino meo aeque et mihi rem gratissimam facies. Alia scribenda tecum crocitabit Crocus. Vale, totius orbis lumen. 8. aeque scripsi : .g. MS. g. crocitabat MS.
