Johann Carion

A prognostication he published in 1521 gained him a later reputation of having predicted the Protestant Reformation, as well as a major flood in 1525 and some apocalyptic dates.

[7] With Joachim Camerarius, Melanchthon and other Lutheran humanist scholars the work changed from a traditional chronicle into a Reformation narrative of the Middle Ages.

[12] In 1567, Peter Canisius, the most important Jesuit in Germany, wrote to the Catholic historian Onofrio Panvinio to inquire about the chronicle he was preparing.

[13] The Jesuits hoped to use the book in Germany, but despite Canisius's high expectations, Panvinio's work remained only a manuscript.

As a result, it was not until the end of the sixteenth century that Orazio Torsellino's Epitome Historiarum (1598) gave the Jesuits a Catholic counterpart to Carion's Chronicles.