Johannes Knolleisen (1450–1513) was a German

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professor. Nothing is known about his parents and his youth, aside from his being born in

Allenstein Olsztyn ( , ; german: Allenstein ; Old Prussian: ''Alnāsteini'' * Latin: ''Allenstenium'', ''Holstin'') is a city on the Łyna River in northern Poland. It is the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, and is a city with county rights. ...

(Olsztyn), Ermland (Warmia),

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. He received his magister degree in theology from the

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, becoming rector of the university in 1478. Knolleisen became

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in 1489. By the time of his death in 1511, Knolleisen and

Lucas David Lucas (or Lukas) David (1503 - April 1583) was a German historian, who from ca. 1550 on compiled extensive volumes on Prussian history. Life David was born in Allenstein (Olsztyn), Royal Prussia, Poland, to Gerhard Dönhoff. He studied at the ...

had created a

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of 700

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to help two worthy students from Allenstein study in

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References

*''Monumenta historiæ Warmiensis, oder, Quellensammlung zur Geschichte Ermlands''. Band IV. Verlag von Eduard Peter. Braunsberg and Leipzig, 1872.

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Domkapitel zu Frauenburg und die Stadt Allenstein
1450 births 1513 deaths 15th-century German Catholic theologians People from the State of the Teutonic Order People from Olsztyn Leipzig University alumni Academic staff of Leipzig University Rectors of Leipzig University {{Germany-academic-bio-stub