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CUSPINIAN

Volume 17 · 108 words · 1810 Edition

John, a German, was born at Swindfurt in 1473, and died at Vienna in 1529. He was first physician to the emperor Maximilian I., and employed by that prince in several delicate negotiations. We have of his in Latin, 1. A history of the Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to the death of Maximilian I. Degory Wheare, in his Methodus Legenda Historia, calls this "luculentum sane opus, et omnium lectione dignissimum." 2. A history of Austria; being a kind of continuation of the preceding. 3. A history of of the origin of the Turks, and of their cruelties towards Christians. Gerard Vossius calls Cyprianian magnum furo historice lumen.