 Johann Alexander Brassicanus

Johann Alexander Brassicanus (c.1500 – 25 November 1539) was a German Catholic humanist, author and prominent professor.He was born probably at Cannstatt, 1500, as a member of an ancient family of Konstanz, named Köl or Köll, Latinized Brassicanus (both meaning 'cabbage'), his father was Johannes Brassicanus, the Württemberg humanist who taught in the Latin school at Urach up to 1508, and later in the pedagogium at Tübingen, but was chiefly known as a leader in the movement for the promotion of the humanities and as the author of a grammar then widely used, "Institutiones grammaticae", thirteen editions of which were issued between 1508 and 1519.