Conrad of Leonberg, or Leontorius, or his real name, Konrad Töritz,[1] (1460–1511) was a German Cistercian monk and Humanist scholar.
[2] He was close to Amberbach and supported the use of the Latin script instead of the gothic in his sons handwriting.
[2] When the German Humanists began to revive the study of the Latin and Greek classics, as Conrad deplored the barbarous Latin in which the scholastic philosophers and theologians of Germany were expounding the doctrine of their great masters, he was in full accord with their endeavours to restore the classical Latinity of the Ciceronian Age.
Conrad kept up correspondences with many of the scholars and writers of his day, both religious and secular.
[5] Besides writing numerous Latin poems, orations and epistles, he published (Basel, 1506–1508) the Latin Bible with the "Postilla" and "Moralitates" of the Oxford Franciscan Nicolas de Lyra, together with the "Additiones" of Paul of Burgos (d. 1435) and the "Replicæ" of Mathias Thoring (d. 1469).