!!!Brassicanus, Johannes Alexander

b. Tuebingen (Germany), 1500, 
d. Vienna, Nov. 25, 1539, humanist, Neo-Latin poet. Son of the 
grammarian Johannes B. and brother of Johannes Ludwig  Brassicanus. 
After 1518 university professor of rhetoric in Vienna, editor of 
writings of the Early Fathers. His poetry comprises poems in praise of 
the Habsburgs as well as ironic-satirical poems (Pan-Omnis, 1519).

!Further works
Idillion, 1519 (poem in praise of Karl V); 
Epinikion, around 1525; Proverbiorum Symmicta, quibus addicta sunt 
Pythagorae Symbola, 1529 (collection of proverbs); Geoponica, 1539.



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