Background
He was born in Ettlingen and died in Gemmingen.
He was born in Ettlingen and died in Gemmingen.
He studied at the famous Latin school in Pforzheim, where Philipp Melanchthon was a fellow student in 1508-1509. As a patriotic humanist he describes Germany in twelve books: Germaniæ exegeseos volumina duodecim a Francisco Irenico Ettelingiaco exarata, which appeared in Hagenau in 1518.