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3 unusual facts about Konrad Pellikan


Konrad Pellikan

On returning to Rouffach, he taught gratis in the Franciscan convent school that he might borrow books from the library, and in his sixteenth year resolved to become a friar.

Pellikan became a priest in 1501 and continued to serve his order at Rouffach, Pforzheim, and Basel until 1526.

He taught Hebrew, Greek, mathematics and cosmography at the Franciscan monastery of St. Katherina in Rouffach, in the upper Alsace.



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