Nyder, Johannes

Nyder, Johannes a celebrated Dominican, who flourished during the Hussite Reformation, is noted as one of the embassy selected by the Council of Basle to debate at Egra, in Bohemia, the case of the Hussites. But little is known of his personal history. but in the excited period of ecclesiastical strife in which he flourished he played no unimportant part in defense of the papal cause. See Jenkins, Life of Cardinal Julian, p. 187 sq.