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Pontanus, Georg-Barthold von Braitenberg

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a learned Bohemian prelate, was born at Brux about the middle of the 16th century. He had scarcely taken orders when he achieved a reputation by his eloquence in the pulpit, as well as for his remarkable Latin verses, for which last-named attainment he was in 1588 crowned with the poetical laurels by the emperor Rudolph. Appointed canon of the cathedral of Prague in 1582, he afterwards became provost and vicar-general in the same city. He exercised a great and happy influence on the important questions then under debate in Bohemia. He died in 1616. His works are, Der Triumph des Podagra (Frankf. 1605, 4to): Bibliothek der Pedigten aus alien und neuen Schriftstellern (Cologne, 1608. fol.): Dasfromme Bohmen (Frankf. 1608, fil.); a selection of the most remarkable acts of piety of the princes and prelates of Bohemia: Scanderbeugus, seu vita Georgii Castriotce (Hanau, 1609. 8vo): a number of Latin poems: a good edition of the treatise De geminis rerum proprietatibus of Bartholomeus Anglicus (Frankf. 1601, 8vo). Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gé neralé, s.v.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Pontanus, Georg-Barthold von Braitenberg'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​p/pontanus-georg-barthold-von-braitenberg.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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