Christoph von Scheurl

Christoph von Scheurl, portrait by Cranach the Elder

Albrecht Dürer: Crest of the Scheurl and Tucher families, c. 1512

Christoph von Scheurl (also: Christoph Scheurl;* 11. November 1481 in Nuernberg; † 14. Juni 1542) was a German jurist, diplomat and humanist who became famous for arranging a humanistic friendship between Johannes Eck and Martin Luther. He also was among the first people to have Luther's 95 theses printed and distributed.^[1]

Works (selected)

• De rebus gestis Alberti Ducis Saxioniae
• De Vita Ant. Cressenis
• Tractatus de sacerdorum & ecclesiasticarum rerum praestantia, Leipzig 1511
• Lib. De laudibus Germaniae & Ducum Saxoniae, Leipzig 1508
• Epist. Ad Charit. Pirckhameram, Nuernberg 1513
• Epist. Ad Charit. Pirckhameram, Nuernberg 1513
• Epist. Ad Staupitium de statu sive regimine reipubl. Noricae
• Epist. Ad Petr. Bernstein, 1580

References

1. ^ Brecht, Martin, Martin Luther: His Road to Reformation, 1483-1521, (Fortress Press, 1985), p. 204

Sources

• Heinz Kathe: Die Wittenberger Philosophische Fakultät 1501–1817. Böhlau, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3412044024
• Walter Friedensburg: Geschichte der Universität Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• Irene Dingel und Günther Wartenberg: Die Theologische Fakultät Wittenberg 1502 bis 1602. Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3374020194
• Felix Streit: Christoph Scheurl, der Ratskonsulent von Nürnberg, und seine Stellung zur Reformation. Neupert Verlag, Plauen 1908
• Entry in Zedlers Universallexikon, Vol. 34, p. 699

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