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and concerning famous members of the Corvinus family.
...I had to change my residence three times. This circumstance is an enemy to collections of individual sheets of paper The author is lamenting how frequently moving house often leads to the loss or disarray of research notes and loose manuscripts.. I believe I previously understood from the Messrs. Berckelmann that Abbot Theodor—or perhaps his brother on his mother’s side—was a descendant of Corvinus. However, as I leaf through the Memory of the Blessed Theodor original: Memoriam b. Theodori; a commemorative work about a deceased scholar or cleric, a book which flowed from the pen of Mr. Johann Heinrich Stuß, I find not a single syllable of this. Attached to this treatise, on page 225 and following, is the Epistolary commentary on the origin and progress of the Göttingen inspection and its supervisors original: Commentatio epistolica de origine & progressu inspectionis Göttingensis eiusdemque Ephoris by the late Consistorial Councilor and General Superintendent Dr. Henrich Philipp Guden. Yet even in here, I only find in Section 10, page 237, that which Hamelmann Hermann Hamelmann (1526–1595), a Lutheran theologian and historian known as the "Apostle of Westphalia." left in print regarding the church visitation in the Principality of Göttingen, which the General Superintendent M. Anton Corvinus Anton Corvinus (1501–1553) was a key reformer in Lower Saxony who helped establish the Lutheran church in the region. performed alongside others in 1542; and how he, Corvinus (Section 12, page 242), was imprisoned by Duke Eric the Younger Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528–1584), who, unlike his mother Elisabeth, turned back to Catholicism and arrested the leading reformers. at Calenberg Castle in 1547. If one asks from where Corvinus came to the Principality of Göttingen, everyone answers: Philip...