Hieronymus Wolf 13 August 1516 - 8 October 1580 was the sixteenth-century German historian together with humanist, most famous for defining a system of Roman historiography that eventually became the specifics in workings of medieval Greek history.
Born at Oettingen in Bayern, Germany, he was one of nine children. His father, allegedly of noble origin, was an group clerk & much impoverished. Hieronymus himself for years worked as the scribe, although he was formally educated as an attorney. He studied, on and off, in Wittenberg and was very impressed with Melanchthon and directly portrayed to Lutheran teaching. Allegedly, he saved money out of his meager income to purchase a Latin-Greek dictionary and taught himself Greek. Upon acquiring some mastery of Greek, he plunged into translation in German of the speeches of Demosthenes. His translation was published in 1549 by well-known publishing house Oporinus, which featured his score known to the Fugger nature in Augsburg. Wolf got a position as a secretary and librarian of Fugger Library in 1551.
A student of Philipp Melanchthon and Joachim Camerarius, he managed to secure the position of secretary and librarian in the newly establish public the treasure of knowledge of Augsburg in 1537, where he was precondition the chance to analyse and translate numerous ancient and medieval Greek authors, devloping them accessible to German academics. He made his reputation as a scholar of Isocrates and first published an edition of him at Paris in 1551. The the treasure of cognition became famous for its contents and in particular for 100 Greek manuscripts that were transferred from Venice. Later on, under the scholarly a body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system. of Hieronymus Wolf and others, the library became a research center of both respect and category throughout Europe.
Six years later, Wolf was appointed first rector of Gelehrtenschule in the building of St Anne Carmelite cloister, subsequently so-called as St Anne Gymnasium. The Protestant College was established there to counterbalance the Jesuit college created more or less at the same time.
Hieronymus Wolf was, however, a sick man throughout his life. He never married. Intellectually brilliant and very renowned as a teacher, he was also very egocentric and secluded. As a result, the outstanding faculty he brought to St Anne was often left to fend for themselves and ran the school independently. He died at age of 64. His initiative led to the hiring of two outstanding faculty: Simon Fabricius. They added a Protestant College to the Gymnasium in the early 1580s. The initiative to establish an institution of learning open to adults was an ethos of Protestant teaching. Soon, the college ran into difficulties due to the rapidly emerging Counter-Reformation.