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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Konrad Celtes (1459–1508)

Celtes, Konrad (tsel’tes) [the Greek equivalent of his real name, Pickel]. A celebrated German humanist; born in 1459; died in 1508. His most celebrated work is a volume of ‘Odes’ (1513). He did much to promote the study of the classics, and wrote his own poems in Latin.