, a German of great learning, was of a noble family of Strasburg,
, a German of great learning, was
of a noble family of Strasburg, and was born there in 1489
or 1490. He made himself illustrious by the services he
did his country; and discharged the most considerable
offices of state with the greatest ability and probity, particularly in several deputations to the diets of the empire,
the imperial court, and that of England. He contributed
very much to the reformation of religion at Strasburg,
to the erecting of a college which was opened there ten
years after, and to the compilation of the history of the reformation in Germany by Sleidan, which that author acknowledges in his preface. “I received the assistance of
that noble and excellent person, James Sturmius, who, having been above thirty years engaged in public and important affairs with the highest reputation, and having generously honoured me with his friendship, frequently cleared
up my doubts, and put me into the right way; and, at my
request before his last illness, read over the greatest part
of the work, and made the necessary remarks upon it.
”
He died at Strasburg Oct. 20, 1555, after languishing of
a fever for two months. Sleidan says that “he was a man
of great prudence and integrity, and the glory of the German nobility, on account of the excellent qualities of his
mind, and his distinguished learning.
”