Beatus Rhenanus

[5] In Paris he entered the College du Cardinal Lemoine,[5] where he came under the influence of Jacobus Lefèvre Stapulensis, an eminent Aristotelian.

[7][3][8] He assisted Lefèvre in publishing a commented Politika and a treatise on the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle in the print of Henri Estienne.

[9] In the same year he moved to Strassburg (Strasbourg), where he worked for the printer Mathias Schürer and made the acquaintance of prominent Alsatian humanists, including Jakob Wimpfeling,[10] Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg and Sebastian Brant.

[13] In Basel he also befriended Desiderius Erasmus and played an active role in the publishing enterprises of Johann Froben.

Beatus Rhenanus returned to Schlettstadt in 1528[11] to devote himself to a life of learned leisure.

[17] Rhenanus's own publications include a biography of Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg (1510),[18] the Rerum Germanicarum Libri III (1531), and editions of Velleius Paterculus (Froben, Basel, 1520), based on the sole surviving manuscript, which he discovered in the Benedictine monastery at Murbach, Alsace.

[20] Beatus Rhenanus's collection of books went into the ownership of his hometown by his death and is still to be seen in its entirety in the Humanist Library of Sélestat.

[22] He died on the way back from Wildbad in Strasbourg on the 20 July 1547 while still in hope of a treatment for his sickness.