Konrad Heresbach

Konrad Heresbach (28 August 1496 – 14 October 1576) was a Rhenish Reformer, Calvinist, humanist and educator.

In 1503, he left Mettmann to attend the Latin ecclesiastical school at the Benedictine Monastery at Werden.

At Cologne he became acquainted to the Dutch reformer Erasmus of Rotterdam, who after a brief stay at Paris and Orléans, found him a position at the University of Freiburg, where he graduated in 1522 with a doctorate in law.

After some further Hebrew studies at the University of Padua at the age of 26 years, he returned to his native Duchy of Berg.

His educational teachings considerably influenced the philologist Konrad Duden, whose work was decisive for the standardization of the German Orthography.