Dietrich of Apolda

Dietrich Of Apolda (or THURINGIA), a German Dominican, born at Apolda, near Jena, is the author of a Life of St. Elizabeth of Thurinmgia (printed in Canisius, Antiq. Lectiones, ed. Basnage, 4:113; preface and supplement in Mencken, Script. Rerum Germ. 10). He also wrote the Life of St. Dominic. See Herele, in Wetzer u. Welte's Kirchen-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)