, a native of Justingen, in Suabia, where his father was a labourer,
, a native of Justingen, in Suabia,
where his father was a labourer, was educated at home,
and in 1495 went to Cracow, where, and at Tubingen,
he studied the languages, jurisprudence, and particularly
poetry. In 1501, the emperor Maximilian I. honoured
him with the poetical crown. Before this, in 1497, he
was professor at Tubingen, and lectured on the ancient
orators and historians, and is said to have been the first
who introduced into Germany a relish for the purity of the
Latin tongue, in which his works show that he had attained
considerable excellence. His Latin dissertations of the
historical kind, relating to Germany, are inserted in the
first volume of Scharde’s Scrip. Her. Germanicarum. Ife
is less to his credit that he wrote some tales of a very licentious kind. He formed, also, a collection of German
proverbs, which with his poems were published at Strasburgh, in 1512, 4to, under the title “Opuscula BebeJiana.
” A posthumous work of his, “De necessitate
linguae Latinae,
” was published at Augsburgh, in