Andreas Perlach was born just before the end of the emperor Frederic's III. reign (1452—1493), and lived at the time of king and emperor Maximilian I. (1493—1519), emperor Charles V. (1519—1556), the archduke and king Ferdinand I. (1521 —1558). This was the time, when the Habsburgs rose above the average of fairly important princes in the German state to one of the most famous reigning houses in Europe. It was also the time of numerous wars, of the ever more threatening danger from the Turks, the time of peasants' unrests, of change in the economical life as well as of new spirirual movements and the victory of humanism over the medieval scholasticism.