(or OSNABRUCK), a famous German preacher and ascetical writer, was born about the year 1435, at Mdnster, in Westphalia, and died at Louvain. December 11, 1515, leaving, De Passione Domini: — De Exercitatione Interiore: — Manutae Simplicium. But the book which is best known of his writings is his Christenspiegel, a catechism, containing also prayers and meditations, which was printed very often. See Der Katholik, 1860, 1:584 sq.; Nordhoff, Dietrich Colde uld sein Christenspiegel, in Pick's Monatsschrift fur rheinischwestfalische Geschichtsforsthunq, 1875, 1:67 sq.; Evelt, in Wetzer u. Welte's Kirchen-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)