Christoph Hegendorff, of Leipzig, was a Protestant theological scholar and expert of law, an educator and a great, public admirer of which Dutch Renaissance humanist?
Christoph Hegendorff Christoph Hegendorff (1500 – 8 August 1540), of Leipzig, was a Protestant theological scholar and expert of law, an educator and a great, public admirer of Erasmus, whom he called "optimarum literarum princeps" ("the prince of the best literary style") and "theologorum nostri temporis columen" ("the pillar of theologists of our times").
Johannes Trithemius Johannes Trithemius (1 February 1462 – 13 December 1516), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer and occultist. He had considerable influence on the development of early modern and modern occultism. His students included Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus.