Kaspar Ursinus Velius
Kaspar Ursinus Velius (c. 1493 – 5 March 1539) was a German humanist scholar, poet and historian. • Illustration — Title page from a book of 1522
Kaspar Ursinus Velius
Geschichte Oesterreichs, Volume 1 by Patuzzi, Alexander. Published by Albert A. Wenedikt, 1862. Illustrated by C. Geiger. A. Greil, A. Grottger, V. Katzler, F. Kollarz and C. Swoboda. Online · Public domain
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- 1493
- Died
- 1539 · Vienna.
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- Germany
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- poet · historian · university teacher · humanist · writer · hofmeister
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- German · Latin
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From Schweidnitz in Silesia (now Świdnica in Poland) he began life as secretary to Johann Thurzo, Bishop of Breslau. Later in Vienna he was court historian and poet laureate. His De Bello Pannonico chronicled the wars of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor against John Zápolya and the Ottoman Empire. It was published in 1762, in an edition by Adam František Kollár. Velius also composed a narrative recounting ("De interitu Ludovici regis et clade Hungarie") on the death of Louis II of Hungary and the Battle of Mohács (1526), as he informed his friend Nicolaus Olahus in his letters at the turn of 1531 and 1532. The manuscript had been hidden for centuries, until a mutilated, patched version was discovered in the National Széchényi Library (OSZK) in 2018. It was translated into Hungarian within the framework of textual criticism in 2020. A friend of Johannes Göritz (Corycius), he visited Rome as an upcoming Neo-Latin poet. Velius' body was found in 1539 in a branch of the River Danube at Vienna.
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Kaspar Ursinus Velius is recorded with the occupation poet. Recorded as poet, historian, university teacher, humanist and writer.
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1493
Kaspar Ursinus Velius born at Świdnica.
1539
Kaspar Ursinus Velius died at Vienna.
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- 1.Lambrecht dead link, Karen. Communicating Europe to the Region. 14. May 2021.
- 2.Boor, Helmut de. Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. C.H.Beck. 29 March 2018. 9783406007170.
- 3.Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont. Lajos király haláláról és Magyarország bukásáról. Egy elveszettnek hitt beszámoló a mohácsi csatáról [De interitu Ludovici regis et clade Hungarie. A Long-lost Report about the Battle of Mohács]. 2020. 978-963-416-223-0.
- 4.Pastor, Ludwig. The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages : drawn from the secret Archives of the Vatican and other original sources; from the German. London, J. Hodges. 29 March 1891.
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