A FFJEND AMONG SCHOLAKS OSIANDER. 185 



by the most learned Cardan, and printed by Petreius. 

 " That," says Jerome, " was the beginning of my fame ; 

 of whatever glory I have earned that was the origin 1 ." 



Osiander was a Lutheran theologian, not very ortho- 

 dox of his kind, whose name in the vulgar world was 

 Hosemann, as one who may have had an ancestor distin- 

 guished for his early assumption of a garment mentionable 

 perhaps in Latin quasi vir braccatus. He was a man ten 

 years older than Cardan ; and having said so much, I may 

 add, that he did not remain to the end of his life at 

 Nuremberg, but spent the last three years of it in 

 Prussia, where he enjoyed court favour as a theologian, 

 and that he died long before Cardan, at the age of sixty- 

 two. He had commenced his public career at Nuremberg 

 as lecturer on Hebrew among the Augustin monks, whose 

 company he had left to preach the new doctrines of Luther. 

 His was the first Lutheran sermon preached in that town, 



1 Speaking of the Practice of Arithmetic for which Caluscho gave him 

 the ten crowns, he says : " Nee si non impressus fuisset nostra monu- 

 menta invenissent Typographum : continue enim, eo opere impresso, 

 csepenint omnia commutari. Nam adjeceram Catalogum qualemcun- 

 que librorum nostrorum, quos vel scripseram, vel caeperam scribere: et 

 liberis distrahi caepit in Galliis atque Germaniis. Itaque cum tune 

 esset Andreas Osiander Norimbergae, vir Latinae, Graecae, Hebraicaeque 

 Iingua9 peritus, turn typographus Joan. Petreius, bonis literis, si quis 

 alius favens, inito consilio totis viribus mecum agere caeperunt, ut 

 aliquid opus illis traderem ut imprimerent. Atque ita initium gloriac 

 nostrae, si qua deinceps fuit, hinc ortum habuit." De Libris Propriis- 

 Lib. ult. Opera, Tom. i. p. 104. The same authority covers the ac- 

 count of the rest of this transaction. 



