Conradus Mutianus Rufus (otherwise known as Conrad Muth or Mutian) (Oct. 15, 1470 - Mar. 30, 1526) was a significant Germanhumanist. Events May 15 - Charles VIII of Sweden who had served three terms as King of Sweden dies. ... Events January 14 - Treaty of Madrid. ... Humanism is a system of thought that defines a socio-political doctrine (-ism) whose bounds exceed those of locally developed cultures, to include all of humanity and all issues common to human beings. ...
Our knowledge of this network begins with the figure of one ConradusMutianusRufus, who was in the early 1500s the Kanonikus of the Marienstift in Gotha, a Latin and Greek scholar and cleric who had travelled to Italy during the period 1499-1503, and who had studied in Bologna and visited other cities, including Venice.
MutianusRufus had been in contact with members of the Signoria: ``I saw Venetian patricians wearing a silken belt which hung down on one side and went around one arm,'' [Briefwechsel des ConradusMutianus, p.
In 1512, during the Cambrai war, Mutianus and Spalatin received a report that Aldus was on his way to Germany with a cargo of precious Greek and Latin manuscripts; Spalatin wrote to Aldus on March 25, 1512, proposing that Aldus meet with Frederick the Wise for a major book purchase.
He was born in Homberg of well-to-do parents named Mut, and was subsequently known as Konrad MutianusRufus from his red hair.
At Deventer under Alexander Hegius he had Erasmus as school-fellow; proceeding (1486) to the university of Erfurt, he took the master's degree in 1492.
K Krause, Der Briefwechsel des MutianusRufus (1885)
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