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Deventer MS. 91, f. 179. LB. App. 72. Ghent. 3 August (1517). 616. 15. sibi add. F. he supervised Martens’ editions of Hugo of St. Victor on St. Paul, 18 Noy. 1512, and Richard of St. Victor on the Apocalypse, 7 Sept. 1513; cf. also Dorp’s preface, 22 Nov. (1512?) to Aesop, 21 Sept. 1513, and Despauterius’ Syntaxis, with preface dated 10 July 1513, dedieated to Nicholas conjointly with Dorp and another. In 1517 and till 1521 he was master of the Latin school at Antwerp (cf. Epp. 637, 788, 794; and Lond. xiii. 25, LB. 482), and also worked for Hillen (cf. Erasmus’ Apologia qua respondet, f°. B3 : Jortin ii. 502), editing Dorp’s Oratio, 27 Sept. 1519 (Ep. 438 and BRE. 126), and some of Erasmus’ translations from Lucian, 1517 and later. Geldenhauer dedicated to him De Batauorum insula, Hillen, 19 Sept. 1520; and Corn. Grapheus the Epistola apologetica of Jo. Gochius, s.a.et1., with preface dated Antwerp, 23 Aug. {1521 ?). In 1521-2 he was imprisoned for Lutheranism, and compelled to recant publicly at Brussels (Geldenhauer’s Collectanea, ed. Prinsen, pp- 46,7; cf. EE. 10). Through the intercession of friends, including Erasmus (Lond. xix. 112, XX. 40; LB. 629, 644), he was released c. March 1523 (EE. 13 and Lond. xxi. 1, LB. 653); and made his way to Basle (Jortin ii. 414). By Noy. he had returned to Antwerp (HE. 19). About Feb. 1524 he was at Louvain and visited M. Lypsius (Horawitz v, p. 65). But his sympathies with Luther were unchanged, and in May 1525 Lypsius writes urging him not to quarrel with Erasmus (ibid. Ep. 67), whose confidence he continued to enjoy (Lond. xxx. 17, LB. 706). About this time 17. M.D.XVII add. H. he took part in de Keysere’s second attempt to found a university at Tournay (Ep. 525 introd.); but the project failed, and he resumed his work at Antwerp. In Aug. 1528 he left it (Basle MS. Goclenii Epist., f. 28 v°) definitely to join the Reformers; and, though a priest, married. He settled at Bremen till 1536, when he was invited to Denmark. On 29 July 1540 he was appointed Rector of the school at Wesel (cf. ME. 1924). Later, 23 June 1543, he was made Superintendent of Wesel; but in 1548, refusing to submit to the Interim, he withdrew to Bremen. At his death he was pastor of Blankenburg in the Harz. See de Hoop Scheffer, Gesch. d. Kerkhervorming, 1873 ; Krafft in Zs. d. berg. Geschichtsvereins, xxvi (1890) pp. 213-25; O. Clemen, Joh. Pupper von Goch, 1896, pp. 276-282 ; H. de Vocht in Englische Studien, xl (1909) pp. 382-4 ; A. Wolters, Reformationsgesch. d. Stadt Wesel, 1868: BN. iii. 197: and Kalkoff in ZKG. xxiv (1903), pp. 416-29, and Anfänge d. Gegenreformation, ii (1904), pp. 70 and 102; where, however, Lond. xx. 40, LB. 644 (so also Clemen), and the date of HE. 13 are misinterpreted. The former error vitiates also Kalkoff’s ingenious identification of Nicholas with the author of the Vita S. Nicolai (Zw. E’, pp. 401-20), who must be Corn. Grapheus ; but the suggestion (ibid.) that he may be identified with Nic. Quadus Saxo (Bücking, pars prior, pp. 104-6) is more probable. 616. 16. Ioanni] Possibly Phrysius; cf. Ep. 637. 13 n. sella] Cf. Ep. 637. II.
