2  Compare  this  passage  with  Holbein's  well-known  portrait,  by  which  it  was
doubtless  inspired.
3  According  to  Chytraus  (Saxonia,  p.  90).  Conrad  Ritberg,  the  bishop  of
Miinster,  was  warned  by  the  university  of  Cologne  against  the  establishment
of  a  school  upon  the  new  method,  but  he,  who  had  himself  been  in  Italy,  was
far  more  strongly  worked  on  by  the  recommendations  which  Langen  had  brought
with  him  thence  ;  e.g.  even  from  Pope  Sixtus.
4  Hamelmann,  Oratio  de  Buschio,  nr.  49.
6  Erasmi  Epistohe,  i.,  p.  689.  In  the  Epp.  Obsc.  Vir.  ed.  Munch,  p.  102,  a
Socius  from  Moravia  is  complained  of  who  wanted  to  lecture  at  Vienna  without
having  taken  a  degree.
6  "  Qui  nostri  portarunt  signa  theatri." — Catalogus  Illustrium  Auditorum
Philomusi.  "  Doctorum  insignium  magistrorum  nobilium  ac  canonicorum
infinitum  pene  numerum  memorare  nequeo,  qui  ore  magnifico  laudisonaque
voce  me  praceptorem  salutare  gestiunt.  Haec  citra  omnem  jactantiam  appo-
suimus." — Extract  in  Zapf.  Jacob  Locher,  called  Philomusus,  p.  27.
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