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Letter #1706

Leonard NIEDERHOFF to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Frauenburg (Frombork), 1537-09-09
            received [1537]-09-11

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, BK, 230, p. 39-42

 

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BK, 230, p. 39

Reverendissime in Christo pater et domine, domine mi clementissime.

Quando Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae totus sum, non habeo, quod ultra Reverendissimae Dominationi Vestrae offerre possum. Verum quando Reverendissima Dominatio Vestra undique terrarum litteras recipit, ita et amicos plures denique novitatibus cum gaudio implet, me autem suo Leonardo non sine dolore ms. ero(!) oreore ms. ero(!) in totum praeterito, etiam ad litteras mea<s> nuper per familiarem meum transmissas ad id, quod maxime volebam, nihil respondere dignata fuit. Unde fit, ut lupum auribus teneo. Quod et scribere et id ipsum et nuntio Reverendissima Dominatio Vestra surrepto boni ac gratiose consulere dignetur ac ingenua paterna clementia foveat obsecro memeque dedo Reverendissimae Dominationi Vestrae, quam Deus optimus diu ac in perpetuum felicissimam servet.

Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae Leonard Niederhoff (*ca. 1485 – †1545), doctor of both canon and civil law, friend of Nicolaus Copernicus and executor of his will; studied in Cracow, Leipzig and Rome, where he obtained a doctoral degree; from 1511 parish priest of St. Bartholomew's Church in Gdańsk (Danzig); from 1515 Canon of Ermland (Warmia), and from 1519 Canon of Dorpat; from 1532 Dean of the Ermland Chapter; he also had a canonry in Kulm from which he resigned in 1533. In 1530, after Dantiscus' resignation, became a parish priest of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Gdańsk (KOPICZKO 2, p. 231; SBKW, p. 175)Leonardus NiderhofLeonard Niederhoff (*ca. 1485 – †1545), doctor of both canon and civil law, friend of Nicolaus Copernicus and executor of his will; studied in Cracow, Leipzig and Rome, where he obtained a doctoral degree; from 1511 parish priest of St. Bartholomew's Church in Gdańsk (Danzig); from 1515 Canon of Ermland (Warmia), and from 1519 Canon of Dorpat; from 1532 Dean of the Ermland Chapter; he also had a canonry in Kulm from which he resigned in 1533. In 1530, after Dantiscus' resignation, became a parish priest of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Gdańsk (KOPICZKO 2, p. 231; SBKW, p. 175) servitor