JOHANN Ludwig Brassicanus, younger brother of Johann Alexander (b. at Tiibingen, 1509; d. at Vienna, 3 June, 1549) went to Vienna with his brother in 1524 and likewise won distinction both as a philologist and jurist. He spent some time in the service of Sigmund von Herberstein and Nicolaus Olah, and obtained the title of court historiographer of the Roman King, after which he studied law at Heidelberg (after 1532). Having been professor of Greek in Vienna for a short time (1534) and likewise in Padua, where in 1536 he was made doctor iuris, he was appointed professor of the Institutes at Vienna in 1537, and later professor of canon law. King Ferdinand summoned him to his council, at the same time granting him letters patent of nobility and a coat of arms. He was twice rector of the university and four times dean. In 1544 he was made provincial superintendent, achieving considerable reputation as a public official. He seldom wrote anything for publication, and left only a few addresses and treatises on legal subjects.
The best source of information for Johann Alexander Brassicanus is his letters, most of which are still unpublished (Imperial Library of Vienna, cod. 9705 and 9737), likewise a volume of collected letters in the Munich Library; extracts from both by Horawirz in Sitzungsberichte er Wiener Akademie, phil.-hist. Klasse, LXXXVI, 274 sqq., LXXXIX, 188 sqq CIII, 425 sqq. Cf. Ascupacn, Gesch. der Wiener Univ., III, 126-135; Kink, Gesch. der kaiserlichen Univ. Wien (Vienna, 1854), I, Pt. II, 139; DéLtuincer, Die Reformation, I, 525; Hefele in Kirchenlex., I1, 1206 sqq.; Hurter, Nomenclator (3d ed., Innsbruck, 1906), I], 1275 sqq.; Harti and Scuravr, Nachtrige iappenae zum 8. Band von J. Aschbachs Gesch. der Univ. Wien (Vienna, 1898), 43-128; HermeLiNK, Die theolog. Facultét der Ttibingen vor der Reformation (Tubingen, 1906), 175.
Joseph Sauer.