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Deventer MS. 91, f. 186. LB. App. 157. Cologne. 30 July (1517). 615. 1. Georgius]'See Ep. 6r0. 47 n. 3. litteras] Perhaps Ep. 610; cf, Ep. 622. 33, 4. Martinus] Gruningk ( 1521) of the diocese of Bremen, who matriculated in 1511 at Bologna (ANGB. p. 273), and became LL.D. of Siena; and subsequently was canon and c. 1514-6 cantor of the cathedral at Bremen. Since Jan. 1515 (RE. 201) he had been engaged as a lawyer in Reuchlin’s cause at Rome; but had recently returned thence, bringing with him Geo. Benignus’ Defensio Reuchlini (Ep. 680. 26 n.), which he sent to Maximilian with a letter dated Cologne, 1 Aug. 1517. In 1515 (RE. 206) he translated the Augenspiegel (Ep. 290. 1 n.) into Latin, by, commission from the Pope; but although his version was in circulation early in 1516 (MHE. iv. 19, 20), I cannot find that it was ever printed. About 1521 he procured from Norway a MS. of some lost books of Livy, and offered it to Leo x; but by the time an answer came from Rome, he was dead, and the MS. disappeared. Herm. of Neuenahr, writing in 1517, speaks of ancient friendship with him, perhaps formed at Bologna. See MHE, iv. 25, Böcking and ADB. 4. his diebus] Cf. RE. 244. 6. Vander Wick] of Münster is only known at two periods of his life. From 1515-8 he was Reuchlin’s chief agent in the process at Rome (RE. 201, 271). In 1528 he was Syndic of Bremen, and played a leading part on the Evangelical side, both there and at Münster, especially in connexion with the League of Schmalkalden. In April 1534 he was seized by the Bp. of Münster and put to death in prison. See MHE.iv.; Bôcking; ADB.xliv.38r.
