Nider, Johannes, approximately 1380-1438 (Personal Name)

His De contractibus mercatorum [MI] 1474: t.p. (... reuerendi patris Fratris Johannis Nider sacre theologie professoris Ordinis Predicatorum)

NUC pre-56 (hdg.: Nider, Johannes, d. 1438)

Stammler, W. Dt. Lit. des Mittelalters: Verfasserlex. (Nider, Johannes; b. ca. 1380, d. 13 Aug. 1438)

Dt. Lit. Lex. (Nider (Nieder, Nyder), Johannes; b. ca. 1380, d. 13.8. 1438)

All. dt. Biog. (Nider, Johannes, also, but incorrectly, Nieder, Nyder, etc.; b. btw. 1380 and 1390, d. 13 Aug. 1438)

Malleus maleficarum, maleficas et earum haeresin framea conterens, 1620 v. 1, t.p. verso (Ioannis Nideri)

BM cat. (hdg.: Nider, Johann, Dominican; refs.: Niderus, Joannes; Nyder, Hansen)

Cath. encyc. online, 12 Aug. 2008 (John Nider, theologia, b. 1380, d. 13 Aug. 1438)

DNB, 3 November 2017 (Nider, Johannes; other names: Niger, Johannes, Nider, Ioannes, Nider, Iohannes, Nider, Joh., Nyder, Joannis, Nieder, Johannes, Nyder, Johannes, Niderus, Johannes, Nider, John, Nider, Johann, Nyder, Hansen, Nider, Jean, Niderus, Ioannes; Johannes, Nyder; Johannes, Nieder; Johannes, Niger, Johannes, Nider; gender: masculine; dates: 1380-1438 (year of birth ca.); country: Germany; birthplace: Isny im Allgäu; place of death: Nürnberg; occupations: Catholic theologian, writer; related persons [persons related to 16th-century expressions]: Wimpheling, Jakob, Meister, Hans; relationship to organizations: Dominikaner; additional information: German Dominican; Prior des Basler Konvents; professor of theology in Wien; theological writer; IDN: 119546477) http://d-nb.info/gnd/119546477

New Catholic encyclopedia, 2003, viewed online 27 October 2017 (Nider, Johann; variant spellings: Nyder, Neider; Dominican theologian, writer, diplomat, and reformer; b. Isny (Württemberg) c. 1380; d. Nuremberg, Aug. 13, 1438; entered the Order of Preachers at Colmar c. 1400; he began his philosophical and theological studies at the University of Vienna and completed them at Cologne, where he was ordained; became celebrated as a preacher throughout Germany and Switzerland; attended the Council of Constance, participating in the debates over the doctrines of Hus; in 1423, became professor of theology at the University of Vienna; prior of Nuremberg 1425-1429; preached the reform initiated by Bl. Raymond of Capua and furthered by Bl. John Dominici; prior of the convent of strict observance at Basle, 1429-1436; 1429-1438, vicar over all the reformed priories in Germany; 1431, went to the Council of Basle, which sent him as legate to the Bohemian church; in Bohemia, preached against the Hussites; conciliar legate in 1434 to the Diet of Ratisbon; in 1436, returned to the University of Vienna, where elected dean of the faculty of theology; principal work: Formicarius (written 1437), a collection of anecdotes and dialogues, containing long developments on diabolical activity, a rich source for the religious history and political mind of the first part of the 15th century; other works: Praeceptorium divinae legis (17 editions before 1500), Tractatus de contractibus mercatorum (8 editions before 1500), Alphabeticum divini amoris (later attributed to Gerson), De modo bene vivendi, and many other moral and ascetical works)

Bailey, Michael David. Battling demons, 2003, viewed online 30 October 2017: page 2 (Johannes Nider; German Dominican theologian and religious reformer; presented long accounts of magic, superstition, and witchcraft in several theological and moral treatises) page 3 (wrote also about other heresies, religious crises, questions of morality, and general matters of faith) pages 14-27 (born sometime before 1385; entered Dominican order at Colmar, a reformed Dominican convent following strict observance, sometime after April 8, 1402; sent to Worms for confirmation and ordination; initial study of theology at University of Cologne, sometime before 1413; 1423, admitted to University of Vienna; completed his university studies in 1425; taught in Vienna for one year; served as prior in Nuremberg 1427-1429; also helped to reform the women's convent of St. Catherine as its vicar; worked closely with the Dominican master general, Barthélemy Texier; made vicar general of the entire observant movement, perhaps 1428 or as late as 1430; in 1429, became prior of Dominican male priory in Basel; October 3, 1431, Texier named Nider one of 7 official Dominican representatives to the Council of Basel; one of two men the Council selected for a mission to Bohemia; twice appointed conciliar visitor to oversee the reform of the clergy around Basel; May 16, 1434, appointed to the post of Dominican lecturer at University of Vienna, but did not yet take up the post; reformed the Dominican priory there; sometime shortly after November 1434, departed Basel permanently for Vienna; on April 14, 1436, elected dean of the theological faculty; spent the final years of his life in Vienna; reformed the Dominican convent of St. Catherine in Colmar; while returning to Vienna, died in Nuremberg August 13,1438; buried in the Nuremberg priory; almost all of his major treatises can be dated to the busy period of the 6 years in Basel and the few years immediately afterwards in Vienna)

Brockhaus Enz.; Myers enz. Lex.