Johannes Cuspinian

Johannes Cuspinian (1473–1529), born near Schweinfurt in Franconia, studied at Leipzig and Vienna, becoming professor of medicine and university rector in 1500. In 1493 Maximilian I crowned him poet laureate. A leading humanist in Conrad Celtes's Danubian circle, he edited classical and medieval historical texts and wrote Austria, a historical survey of Lower Austria.

As Maximilian's councillor and diplomat he negotiated the Habsburg–Jagiellonian double marriage alliance of 1515, which ultimately brought Bohemia and Hungary to the Habsburgs in 1526.