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effective nor convincing manner. Finally, friends came to his 
rescue 7 and saved as much as possible of his reputation as a 
thorough, conscientious and truth-loving scholar. His patriot¬ 
ism had no doubt carried him a little too far in this matter. 
But we must also remember that in this same pamphlet he is 
pleading for a cause which was very dear to his humanistic 
heart, namely the establishment of a higher school of learning 
for the glory of Strasburg. Viewed from this standpoint, his 
enthusiasm is praiseworthy, but at the same time it becomes 
easier also to understand the opposition of the friars in this 
matter, 8 who feared that their prospects for the future might 
be endangered if the education of the Strasburg youth should 
pass out of their hands. 
Wimpfeling announced, at the same time that his “Germania” 
appeared in Latin, that a German edition would also be printed. 
USTo doubt he was thinking of a larger public than the members 
of the Strasburg Common Council to whom he dedicated his 
treatise. This German “Germania,” however, was not issued 
during his lifetime. Probably he became disgusted with the 
whole affair and in his discouragement desisted from furnish¬ 
ing any further material for an attack upon his person. To¬ 
wards the middle of the seventeenth century, after Opitz had 
jirepared the ground by his “Aristarchus sive de contemptu 
linguae Teutonicae,” at a time when a new interest in the 
study of the German language was aroused, when Schottel 
published his “Teutsche Sprachkunst” (1641) and his “La- 
mentatio Germaniae expiranfis” (1640), when Lauremberg 
stirred up the German conscience in his “Scherzgedichte,” 
when the “Teutsche Haupt und lleldensprache” was eulogized 
all over Germany, another patriot of Strasburg, Job. Mich. 
Moscherosch, whose name is connected by some scholars with 
the “Unartig teutscher Sprachverderber” that appeared in 
1643, brought to light this German edition of Wimpfeling’s 
^“Defensio Germaniae Jacobi Wympfelingii guam frater Thomas 
Murner impugnavit.” 
8Cf. “Germania von Jacob Wimpfeling.” uebersetzt u. erlaeutert von 
Ernst Martin. Strassburg, 1885. 
