Famous People with Name Nikolaus

Nikolaus Glockendon            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Nikolaus Glockendon: was Nuremberg's master illuminator in the early 16th century. The son of Georg Glockendon the Elder and brother of Albrecht Glockendon, he came from a family of illuminators and printers. His work is known from over thirty extant manuscripts, many of which he signed, usually with his initials "NG." His manuscript illumination The Holy Trinity particularly demonstrates the influence of Albrecht Dürer's Adoration of the Holy Trinity, also known as the Landauer Altarpiece, painted in 1511. Nikolaus Glockendon's career masterpiece is a ceremonial missal, now in the Hofbibliothek Aschaffenburg, known as the Missale Hallense

Nikolaus Krell            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Nikolaus Krell: was born at Leipzig, and educated at the university of his native town. About 1580 he entered the service of Christian, the eldest son of Augustus I, elector of Saxony, and when Christian succeeded his father as elector in 1586, became his most influential counselor. Krell's religious views were Calvinistic or Crypto-Calvinistic, and both before and after his appointment as chancellor in 1589 he sought to advance his own religious views at the expense of the reigning Lutheran Orthodoxy which was the sanctioned religion of electoral Saxony. Calvinists were appointed to many important ecclesiastical and educational offices; a translation of the Bible with Calvinistic annotations was published; and other measures were taken by Krell to attain his end.