Dietrich von Plieningen

Hans Kamberger , Dietrich von Plieningen and Anna von Memmersweiler

Dietrich von Plieningen (born April 24, 1453, presumably in Dillingen an der Donau , † February 26, 1520 in Augsburg ) was a member of the Lords of Plieningen , doctor in civil law, learned councilor, knight and humanist.

Life

Dietrich was born as the son of Plieninger Dietrich the Elder (1453–1485) and Margarethe von Venningen, probably in Dillingen on the Danube. In 1471 Dietrich began studying in Freiburg im Breisgau , and from 1473 he studied Roman civil law with his brother Johannes von Plieningen (* 1454, † 1506) in Pavia . Dietrich's friendship with the important Dutch humanist Rudolf Agricola dates from this time . The brothers moved to the University of Ferrara in 1476 ; there Dietrich obtained his doctorate in 1479.

Dietrich then married Anna von Memmersweiler. He was enfeoffed in 1480 by Count Eberhard im Bart with Schaubeck Castle and other goods and rights. From 1482 he was a councilor in the service of the Palatinate Elector Philip and a member of a circle of humanists. In the years 1494 to 1499 he was seconded as an assessor to the "Royal Chamber Court" ( Reich Chamber Court ), during this time (from 1485) he was also in the Württemberg service, where his council membership is attested until at least 1495.

In 1497 Dietrich acquired the second half of Kleinbottwars together with his brother Eitelhans (* before 1483, † 1534) , here the Georgskirche was built in the 1490s as the burial place of the Plieninger. The predella of the late Gothic high altar of the church shows u. a. Dietrich and his wife.

In 1499 Dietrich accepted an employment with the Bavarian Duke Albrecht IV . From 1511/1512 he was at the "Munich Court Court", was "daily counselor" in 1514 and remained connected to the Bavarian dukes in this way until his death in 1520. Dietrich played an important role in the disputes between the dukes and the estates in 1514.

With the acquisition of Hofmark and Eisenhofen Castle in 1506, he became a Bavarian Landsasse . In 1508 Dietrich was knighted by Emperor Maximilian I and a little later appointed "Imperial Councilor from the House". In 1511/1514, after the death of his first wife (1510), he married the much younger Felicitas von Freyberg, the daughter Kunigunde was born around 1515.

From around 1510 Dietrich was also increasingly active in literature. In keeping with his humanistic traditions , he published translations of ancient Latin and Greek writers, which earned him general recognition, for example from Philipp Melanchthon or Johannes Reuchlin .

At the end of his life Dietrich got increasingly into financial difficulties and died in Augsburg on February 26th, 1520. His grave is in the Pliening burial place of St. George's Church in Kleinbottwar.

literature

• Franziska Countess von Adelmann:  Plieningen, Dietrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 542 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Christine Bürhlen-Grabinger: The gentlemen of Plieningen. Studies on their family, property and social history with regesta (= publications of the Stuttgart City Archives, vol. 36) , Ostfildern 1986, pp. 27–32.
• Herbert Jaumann : Handbook of scholarly culture of the early modern times, Volume 1: Bio-bibliographical Repertorium , Walter de Gruyter (2004), Page 523, ISBN 3-11-016069-2
• Sigmund Ritter von Riezler :  Plieningen, Dietrich von (2nd article) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 79-81.
• Theodor Schott:  Plieningen, Dietrich von (1st article) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 297 f.

Web links

• The German inscriptions