Conradus Hirsaugiensis

Conrad of Hirsau or Hirschau was a German Benedictine monk and writer at the Hirsau Abbey. He is known for his literary work Dialogus super auctores, an accessus ad auctores written about 1130. Conrad identified himself as a "modern" in literary terms. His Dialogus is "the only theoretical discussion of the technique of the accessus [ad auctores] that has come down to us from medieval times". His own selection of authors consists of Aesop, Avianus, Boethius, Cato, Cicero, Donatus, Homer, Juvenal, Lucan, Ovid, Persius, Prosper, Prudentius, Sallust, Sedulius, Statius, Virgil and Theodulus.