Cusa, NICOLAUS OF

Cusa, NICOLAUS OF (1401–64), born at Cusa or Kues on the Moselle, studied at Deventer with the Brothers of the Common Life and at Padua. As archdeacon of Liège he took the anti-papal side at the Council of Basel; but was ultimately Bishop of Brixen in Tyrol, cardinal, and papal legate to Constantinople. He exposed the false Isidorian decretals, denounced perverted scholasticism in De Docta Ignorantia, taught that the earth went round the sun, and in pantheistic tendencies and otherwise was a precursor of Giordano Bruno. See German monographs by Dux (1848), Scharpff (1871), and Glossner (1891).