!!!Ursinus, Caspar auch Velius

Ursinus, Caspar (also Velius), b. Šwidnice, Poland (then Schweidnitz), around 1493, 
d. Vienna (probably suicide), March 5, 1539, humanist, neo-Latin poet, 
historiographer. Worked in Vienna from 1515 (with interruptions). 1517 
was crowned poet laureate by Emperor Maximilian I. Opposed the 
Reformation, Canon in Breslau, in 1524 Professor of Rhetoric, then of 
Roman Law at the University of Vienna. 1526 was named Imperial 
Historiographer by Ferdinand I. In this function wrote numerous works 
about contemporary history. Member of the Sodalitas Collimitiana, 
highly acclaimed for panegyric poetry on the Habsburgs (Poematum libri 
quinque, 1522) and religious poetry; author of a history of 
Ferdinand I (De bello Pannonico libri decem, printed as fragment 
in 1762).

!Further works
In divum Maximilianum Caesarem Epicendion, 1519; De 
nuptiis ... Ferdinandi, 1521.

!Literature
H. Wiegand, Hodoeporica. Studien zur neulatein. 
Reisedichtung, 1984; ADB.



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