Ueber das Leben und die Verdienste Johann von Dalbergs

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However, as great as this Bishop was, and as great as his influence was on the Gelehrtengeschichte history of scholarship; as much as he achieved against all expectations in those times; it is wonderful how his memory has never been renewed or researched in our own times as the memory of a restorer of the sciences. Even recent writers, who wished to be great in the history of scholarship and were teachers of it, did not truly know him. Thus, for example, Johann Andreas Fabricius referenced in footnote 8 calls him Matthew, Bishop in Worms, and Johann Paul Reinhard referenced in footnote 9 turned him into a Bishop in Würzburg. He would have had to mean either Johann II of Brunn, who ruled from 1411 to 1440, or Johann III of Grumbach, who was Bishop from 1455 to 1466 referenced in footnote 10, and then our Johann von Dalberg would have remained entirely unknown to him. This is proof enough of how foreign and unknown this great Bishop has remained even to more recent

(8) In his Sketch of a General History of Erudition original: "Abriß einer allgemeinen Historie der Gelehrsamkeit", Volume 2, page 887; on the other hand, on page 925, he names him quite correctly. One often and easily goes astray if one is not properly on one's guard in this field.
(9) In his Introduction to a General History of Erudition original: "Einleitung zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte der Gelehrsamkeit", Volume 1, page 103.
(10) See Ludewig's Historians of the Bishopric of Würzburg original: "Geschichtschreiber von dem Bisthofthum Würzburg", page 693 and page 813.