Conrad of Leonberg

Conrad of Leonberg, or Leontorius, or his real name, Konrad Töritz, (1460–1511) was a German Cistercian monk and Humanist scholar.

Biography Conrad was born at Leonberg in Swabia in 1460. He took vows at the Cistercian monastery of Maulbronn in the Neckar district, which, unlike most other Cistercian monasteries of those times, was then enjoying its golden age. In 1490 he became secretary-general of his order.

For a time Conrad was engaged in the printing-office of Johann Amerbach at Basel. He was close to Amberbach and supported the use of the Latin script instead of the gothic in his sons handwriting. In 1506 he edited the second edition of the collected works from Ambrose for the printer Johannes Petri. It was one of the early books to have an index.

Works Besides writing numerous Latin poems, orations and epistles, he published (Basel, 1506–1508) the Latin Bible with the "Postilla" and "Moralitates" of the Oxford Franciscan Nicolas de Lyra, together with the "Additiones" of Paul of Burgos (d. 1435) and the "Replicæ" of Mathias Thoring (d. 1469).