Simon Lemm

Lemm, Simon (Simon Lemnius), (St Maria, Münstertal, Switzerland, 1511-50, Chur), a Swiss studying in Wittenberg, incurred the enmity of Luther by praising the Archbishop of Mainz in his Latin Epigrammaton libri duo (1538). Lemm reacted to his eviction from Wittenberg with the scurrilous satire (also in Latin) Monachopornomachia (1539). He spent the rest of his life in Chur. He wrote erotic poems (Amores), a Virgilian epic dealing with the Swiss war of 1499 (Libri IX de bello suevico), and a translation (into Latin) of the Odyssey.

G. E. Lessing devoted Letters 1-8 of his Kritische Briefe of 1753 to a defence of Lemm against Lutheran denigration.