Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin

Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin (born Sept. 22, 1547, Balingen, Württemberg [Germany]—died Nov. 29/30, 1590, Hohenurach, near Reutlingen [Germany]) was a German philologist, poet, and commentator on Virgil. He was one of the last of the Renaissance humanists. Frischlin was educated at the University of Tübingen, where he became (1568) professor of poetry and history. In 1575, for his comedy Rebecca, which he read at Regensburg before the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian II, he was rewarded with...