Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Reuter, Adam
REUTER, ADAM (fl. 1627), author, a native of Cottbus in Silesia, was granted permission to study in the Bodleian Library at Oxford on 3 Sept. 1608 (Oxford Univ. Reg. Oxford Hist. Soc. II. i. 266). He was then a licentiate ‘utriusque juris.’ Wood, who erroneously calls him a Welshman, says that he continued at Oxford for many years ‘in the condition of a commoner, for he wore a gown, and was entered into the matricula as a member of Exeter College’ (Wood, Athenæ Oxon. ii. 420). He proved himself a learned and ingenious scholar, a good Latinist, and a severe Calvinist. He published: 1. ‘Quæstiones Juris Controversi 12,’ Oxford, 1609, dedicated to George Ryves, warden of New College, and the fellows. 2. ‘Oratio Papam esse Bestiam quæ non est et tamen est, apud Johan. Apoc. 17, v. 8,’ London, 1610, 4to, spoken by the author before the university. 3. ‘Contra Conspiratorum Consilia Orationes duæ habitæ in nobiliss. et antiquiss. Oxoniensi Academia 5 Aug. et 5 Novemb. 1610, diebus Regiæ Liberationis et Conspiratione Gowrie et Tormentaria,’ dedicated to George, lord Carew, of Clopton, Henry and Thomas Carey, and William Waller, London, 1612. 4. ‘Libertatis Anglicanæ defensio, seu demonstratio Regnum Angliæ non esse feudum pontificis, in nobilissima et antiquissima Oxoniensi Academia publice opposita Martino Becario, S. J.,’ London, 1613. 5. ‘Eadgarus in Jacobo redivivus seu Pietatis Anglicanæ Defensio contra Rosweydum,’ London, 1614, 4to. 6. ‘De Consilio tractatus,’ dedicated to the Earl of Suffolk, Oxford, 1626.
[Wood's account of Reuter's Welsh origin is denied by his own statement respecting himself in his first publication. Wood's error is repeated in Foster and Williams's Biogr. Dict.; cf. Watt's Bibl. Brit. and Reuter's works in Brit. Mus.; F. Madan's Early Oxford Press, pp. 75, 131.]