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EDUCATION AND THE OLDER HUMANISTS 85 of the Apostle: "Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth." ' As worthy contemporaries of these women of Nu- remberg may be mentioned two distinguished Augs- burg ladies — the learned Prioress Veronica Welser, to whom the elder Holbein dedicated one of his best pictures, and Margaret Welser, the faithful companion and associate in the studies of her husband, Conrad Peutinger, the highly esteemed Humanist and anti- quarian. Among the German Princesses, Matilda, daughter of the Count Palatine Louis III., was specially esteemed as a ' great lover of all the arts.' She made a collection of ninety-four works of the old Court poetry ; she delighted in the old national folk-songs of her country, and encouraged the ' making of new poetry after the ancient methods.' It was under her patronage that the trans- lations of the Chancellor Nicholas von Wyle were accomplished, and at her instigation also that the University of Freiburg, in Breisgau, was founded by her second husband, Archduke Albert of Austria, and that of Tubingen by the son of her first marriage, Count Eberhard von Wtirtemberg.