141:, and whose influence helped to give a more orthodox tone to his opinions on religious questions. In 1524 he was called to the University of Vienna as professor of rhetoric, next receiving the professorship of the laws of the Empire, and not till 1528 the coveted chair of Greek literature, in addition to which he still retained that of jurisprudence. His disapproval of the Lutheran movement was now most pronounced, partially as a result of a more profound study of the
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On the appearance of the Turks before Vienna (1529) he fled his native city, where he remained for a considerable period of time. The succeeding years are marked by his editions of the
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These do not rise above the average level of the occasional literature of humanism. No subtler meaning and no original or striking thoughts are concealed under the mediocre forms of expression. For the history of the
University of Vienna, on the contrary, Brassicanus is of great importance, being
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Diego Baldi. La
Bibliotheca Corviniana di Buda e la praefatio ad Salvianum (ovvero l’Epistola de Bibliothecis) di Johannes Alexander Brassicanus. «il Bibliotecario» 1-2 (2011), p. 125-194.
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Enchiridion de christianarum rerum memoria sive epitome historiae ecclesiasticae per
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