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Kaiser, Bartholomaeus

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Also known as: Kaiser, Bartholomaeus; primary name: Kaiser, Bartholomaeus; other name: Caesar, Bartholomeus; other name: Kaiser, Bartholomäus
Details: individual; academic/intellectual; German; Male
Life dates: 1507-1519
Biography: Humanist, studied in Erfurt in 1507, went in 1509 to Leipzig. In 1515, introduced by Dr Lorenz Behaim of Nuremberg, Canon of Bamberg, he visited Reuchlin at Tübingen, and became later pupil of Böschenstein; in 1519 he attempted to procure his appointment as Professor of Hebrew at Wittenberg, which was not successful.