Petrus Mosellanus

Petrus Mosellanus Protegensis (real name Peter Schade) (b.

1493 in Bruttig, d. 19 April 1524 in Leipzig) was a German humanist scholar.

He is best known for the popular work on rhetoric, Tabulae de schematibus et tropis,[1] and his Paedologia.

He became professor at the University of Leipzig.

He gave the opening Latin oration at the 1519 Leipzig Disputation between Johann Eck and Martin Luther.