Ottmar Luscinius

Ottmar Luscinius (also called Othmar or Otmar Nachtgall) was an Alsatian Catholic Humanist who wrote Biblical commentaries; 1478 in Strasbourg – 1537 in Freiburg.

After receiving instruction in Strasbourg from Jacob Wimpheling, he went in 1508 to Paris, where he studied Latin under Faustus Andrelini and Greek under Hieronymus Aleander.

He then studied canon law at the Catholic University of Leuven, in Padua, and Vienna, and in the last city music also under Wolfgang Grefinger.

In 1515 he also published a book on the elements of music (Institutiones musicae), and in 1516 issued a revised edition of the Rosella of Baptista Trovamala's compendium of cases of conscience.

The Fugger family made him preacher at the church of St. Moritz, and he became the most important champion of Catholicism in Augsburg, his sermons arousing the ill-will of the Protestants.