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TRITHEMIUS, JOHANNES (14621516)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 296 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TRITHEMIUS, JOHANNES (14621516) ,
German
  historian and divine, was born at Trittenheim on the Moselle, on the 1st of
February
  1462. His name was originally " von Heidenberg," but according to the fashion of the times he adopted the name of his birthplace. After an unhappy childhood, he studied at
Heidelberg
 , and at the age of twenty entered the
Benedictine
  monastery of Sponheim near
Kreuznach
 , of which, in 1485, he became abbot. He established an excellent library, and through his strict discipline and consummate scholarship soon raised the monastery to an educational institution of a high order. In 1506 he resigned, and was appointed soon after abbot of the monastery of St
Jakob
  at Wurzburg; and in this city he died on the 13th of December 1516.
Trithemius
  was, though an accomplished
scholar
 , untrustworthy as a chronicler, and his Annales hirsaugienses (1514), Amides de origine Francorum, as well as his Chronologia mystica (1516) are, on this
account
 , of doubtful value. More reliance can, however, be placed on his De scriploribus ecclesiasticis (1494) and the Catalogus illustrium virorum Germaniae (1491). He also wrote a fanatical
book
  against sorcery, Antipalus maleficiorum (15o8).
See Silbernagel, J.
Trithemius
  (1868; 2nd ed., 1885); Schneegans. Abt Joh. Trithemius and Kloster Sponheim (1882) ; and F. X. Wegele, in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.


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