Johann Host von Romberch (born on a farm at Romberg or Romberch in

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c. 1480, died at the close of 1532 or the beginning of 1533) was a German Dominican, and writer. He was one of the seven Dominicans who distinguished themselves in the struggle against

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. At the age of sixteen he entered the Dominican Order; he studied at the

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from 1516 to 1519. In 1520 he was appointed to the theological faculty of the University of Cologne, and despite the many religious controversies he was engaged in, he found time for literary activity. The fact of his being appointed to the facility of Cologne University is proof of the opinion held of his orthodoxy in theology: that university held a sort of censorship over all the theological faculties of Germany. His fellow members on the university faculty, Hoogstraten and Collin, besides being distinguished churchmen were eminent among later German Humanists.

Works

Among the works he edited are * Burchard von Barby, ''Descriptio Terrae Sanctae'' * Johann Faber, ''Antilogiarum Martini Lutheri Babylonia'' * Dionysius the Carthusian, ''Commentarium in Psalmos''. He wrote many controversial works. He is known also for a 1520 book on the

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, ''Congestorium artificiose memoriae''.''...a text that was widely read throughout sixteenth-century Europe...'', Paolo Rossi, ''Logic and the Art of Memory'' (English translation 2000), p.20. Host's last work was the ''Enchiridion Sacerdotum'' which was published at Cologne in 1532.

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