Vel, Caspar Ursinus, 1493-1538

LC control no.	no2008099597
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Vel, Caspar Ursinus, 1493-1538 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bernhardss, Kaspar, 1493-1538 Ursin, Caspar, 1493-1538 Ursinus Velius, Caspar, 1493-1538 Velius, Caspar Ursinus, 1493-1538 Velius, Kaspar Ursinus, 1493-1538 Velius, Ursinus, 1493-1538 Velius, Casp. Ursinus (Caspar Ursinus), 1493-1538 Ursinus Velius, Kaspar, 1493-1538 Velius, C. Urbinus (Caspar Urbinus), 1493-1538
Other standard no.	0000000109194495
Birth date	1493
Death date	1538
Place of birth	Świdnica (Poland)
Place of death	Vienna (Austria)
Profession or occupation	Poets College teachers Historians Educators Rhetoricians
Found in	Poemata, libri .V., 2008: t.p. (Caspar Ursinus Velius) Vita (also: Kaspar Bernhardss; b. ca. 1493 in Schweidnitz/Silesia; matriculated U. Cracow where he studied Greek; 1508, Leipzig; gone to Italy with Bp. Mathias Lang von Gurk, living in Rome 1512-1514; contact with several prominent humanists; named poet laureate 1517 by Emperor Maximilian I.; 1524 professor of rhetoric, U. Vienna, 1526 court historian and princely educator at the Viennese court; d. Mar. 3, 1539 [sic.] in Vienna (suicide?)) Jöcher, Allegemeine Gelehrten-Lexicon (Vel, Caspar; also: Caspar Ursin; took the name Ursinus and used it in preference to his family name or put family name at the end; b. 1493 in Schweidnitz/Silesia; poet and rhetorican, fluent in Latin and Greek; juris utrisque doctor; made poet laureate by Emperor Maximilian I., 1517; d. May 5 1538, found dead in the Danube River, drowned either because of anger at his wife, or occasionally so lost in thought as to have accidentally fallen in) OCLC, July 3, 2008 (hdgs.: Vel, Caspar Ursinus; Vel, Caspar, 1493-1538; Ursinus Velius, Caspar, 1493-1539; Velius, Caspar Ursinus, 1493-1539; Velius, Kaspar Ursinus, 1493-1539; Velius, Ursinus; Velius, Casp. Ursinus; Ursinus Velius, Kaspar; Velius, C. Urbinus)