Peter Luder

Luder, Peter (dates unknown), an early humanist, led a restless and stormy life. He was in Heidelberg in 1431, visited Greece, studied in Italy, and returned to Heidelberg in 1456, whence he was expelled in 1460; thereafter he appeared in Erfurt, Leipzig, Basel, and Padua. Luder castigated the barbarism of medieval Latin, advocating a return to the classics.

Peter Luder (1415 – 1472), a professor of Latin at the University of Heidelberg, first introduced humanist ideas in Germany.

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