Editing Conrad Celtes (section)

==Works==
[[File:Conrad celtes.jpg|thumb|Conradus Celtis]]
[[File:ConradCeltisRuhmeshalle.jpg|thumb|Bust in the [[Ruhmeshalle (Munich)|Ruhmeshalle]], Munich]]
Conrad Celtes' teachings had lasting effects, particularly in the fields of [[classical language]]s and [[history]]. He brought systematic methods to the teaching of Latin and furthered the study of the [[Ancient literature|classics]]. He was also the first to teach the history of the world as a whole.<ref>{{cite web |title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Conrad Celtes |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03492a.htm |website=www.newadvent.org |access-date=6 January 2022}}</ref> Celtes was the first early modern humanist who introduced the term "[[topography]]" as a critical  appraisal of the Ptolemaic dichotomy between [[cosmography]] and [[chorography]], which was becoming insufficient to reflect the rapidly changing contours of Europe.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Piechocki |first1=Katharina N. |title=Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe |date=13 September 2021 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-81681-4 |page=26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6A5EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 |access-date=6 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

He was the foremost cartographic writer in German lands. He worked on the large-scale cosmographic and cartographic project ''Germania Illustrata'', of which the core — among them the treatise ''Germania generalis'', four books of love elegies, and ''De origine, situ, moribus et institutis Norimbergae libellus'' ("On the origins, site, habits and institutions of Nuremberg") — was published under the title ''Quatuor libri amorum secundum quatuor latera germanie'' in Nuremberg (1502).{{sfn|Piechocki|2021|p=26}}

In 1493, he discovered the writings of [[Hroswitha of Gandersheim]] in the monastery of St. Emmaram. He then stole the manuscript and had it mass-printed across the Empire in 1501.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Russell |title=Mapping European Empire: Tabulae imperii Europaei |date=26 June 2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-59306-5 |page=116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6cgBCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT116 |access-date=6 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Also in 1501, he received a privilege from the Imperial [[Aulic Council]] for the printing of his edition of her dramas. This was one of the earliest recorded privileges regarding copyrights granted by the Imperial government.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Witcombe |first1=Christopher |title=Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome |date=1 June 2004 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-474-1363-9 |page=332 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hstKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA332 |access-date=8 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref> Celtes also discovered a map showing roads of the Roman Empire, the ''Tabula Peutingeriana'', or [[Peutinger Table]]. Celtes collected numerous Greek and Latin manuscripts in his function as librarian of the imperial library that was founded by Maximilian, and he claimed to have discovered the missing books of [[Ovid]]'s [[Fasti (poem)|''Fasti'']] in a letter to the Venetian publisher [[Aldus Manutius]] in 1504.<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher S. Wood |title=Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art |publisher=University Of Chicago Press |date=2008 |page=8}}</ref> The purported new verses [[Pseudepigrapha|had actually been composed]] by an 11th-century monk and were known to the [[Empire of Nicaea]] according to [[William of Rubruck]], but even so, many contemporary scholars believed Celtes and continued to write about the existence of the missing books until well into the 17th century.<ref>{{cite book |author=Angela Fritsen |title=Antiquarian Voices: The Roman Academy and the Commentary Tradition on Ovid's Fasti (Text and Context) |publisher=Ohio State University Press |date=2015}}</ref> His [[epigram]]s, edited by Kark Hartfelder, were published in Berlin in 1881.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Conrad Celtes was more of a free-thinking humanist and placed a higher value on the ancient pagan, rather than the Christian ideal. His friend [[Willibald Pirckheimer]] had blunt discussions with him on that subject. As early as ''Ode ad Apollinem'' (1486), he began to style himself as an Apollo-Priest. The most important earthly Phoebus to him was Maximilian, whose symbiotic relationship with the scholar (and thus their double glory) was often reflected in Celtis's literary works.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Orbán |first=Áron |date=2017 |title=Born for Phoebus: solar-astral symbolism and poetical self-representation in Conrad Celtis and his humanist circles|degree=PhD|pages=40,57,134,183–186, 193–196  |publisher=Central European University |doi=10.14754/CEU.2017.01 |access-date=7 January 2022|url=https://www.ceu.edu/sites/default/files/orbanaron.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106170205/https://www.ceu.edu/sites/default/files/orbanaron.pdf |archive-date=2022-01-06 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
The Celtis-Gymnasium in [[Schweinfurt]] was named after Conrad Celtis.