1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TRITHEMIUS, JOHANNES (1462-1516), German historian and divine, was born at Trittenheim on the Moselle, on the ist 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 s…
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