"Willibald Pirckheimer (5 December 1470 – 22 December 1530) was a German Renaissance lawyer, author and Renaissance humanist, a wealthy and prominent figure in Nuremberg in the 16th century, and a member of the governing City Council for two periods. He was the closest friend of the artist Albrecht Dürer, who made a number of portraits of him, and a close friend of the great humanist and theologian Erasmus.
Born in Eichstätt, Bavaria, the son of a lawyer, Dr. Johannes Pirckheimer, he was educated in Italy, studying law at Padua and Pavia for seven years. His wife was called Cresencia, and they had at least a daughter, Felicitas. His elder sister Caritas (1467–1532) was Abbess of St Clare´s Franciscan convent in Nuremberg (also in effect a girls´ school for the city´s upper class) and was also a gifted classical scholar; Dürer´s life of the Virgin woodcut series was dedicated to her. He probably met Dürer in 1495." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020)
