Konrad Pelikan

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Konrad Pelikan (also Pellikan, Pellican) (1478-1556), German humanist. Pelikan taught Hebrew, Greek, mathematics and cosmography at the Franciscan monastery of St. Katherina in Rufach, in the upper Alsace. A pupil of Paul Scriptoris, Pelikan subsequently taught at Pforzheim and Tübingen. The mapmaker Sebastian Münster studied under Pelikan at Rufach, and is said to have been greatly influenced by Pelikan's teachings.

Pelikan wrote the Chronikon and also translated Hebrew works into Latin, such as Bechji Ben Asher's commentary on the Torah and the work of Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer (Eliezer filius Hircani), the Liber sententiarum Judiacarum, in 1546.