The Hapsburgs ruled which countries ?
He was born probably at Cannstatt , 1500 , as a member of an ancient family of Konstanz , named Köl or Köll , Latinized Brassicanus ( both meaning ' cabbage ' ) , his father was Johannes Brassicanus , the Württemberg humanist who taught in the Latin school at Urach up to 1508 , and later in the pedagogium at Tübingen , but was chiefly known as a leader in the movement for the promotion of the humanities and as the author of a grammar then widely used , " Institutiones grammatiae " , thirteen editions of which were issued between 1508 and 1519 .