Note 36 — CLIX. To Theodore Vitus.[36]
Reading edition
To the most honourable Doctor Theodore Vitus, most faithful Minister of Christ at Nuremberg.
Theodore Vitus, (Dietrich de Weit,) a distinguished theologian, friend of Luther and Melanchthon, preached the Gospel with great success in the city of Nuremberg, his native place, and was worthy of the esteem and affection of Calvin, not more on account of his learning than his moderation. He died in 1549. Melanchthon wrote, at the foot of his portrait, the following verses:
Ingenii monumenta sui, sed plura Lutheri Edidit; his poterunt secla futura frui.
—[Melch. Adam, Vitæ Theol. Germ. pp. 199, 200.]