Wenceslaus Brack
Wenzeslaus Brack , also Prack (* in Meißen ; † October 31, 1495 in Salzburg ) was an early humanist and doctor .
Life
Wenzeslaus Brack, who came from Meissen on the Elbe, studied at the University of Leipzig from 1468 and at the University of Basel from 1469 , where he obtained his baccalaureate in 1470 . In 1477 he received a master's degree .
Around 1480 he was appointed to the Konstanz Cathedral School , which at that time was just a simple Latin school to prepare for university studies. 1486 he received in Konstanz the civil rights . The scholar ran the school for a few years before he began studying medicine.
As a doctor of medicine he rose in 1492 to the personal physician of Emperor Friedrich III. on. Later he became the personal physician of the Archbishop of Salzburg Leonhard von Keutschach . He also died in Salzburg; his widow returned to Constance.
The widow donated his library of 270 volumes to the Weißenau monastery . These included manuscripts from the 12th to the 15th century and incunabula .
plant
Brack's most important writing is his Latin-German non-fiction dictionary Vocabularius rerum , which he had printed in 1483 by the Kolliker printing company in Basel . It comprises a vocabulary of around 3500 words and had 12 editions within a few years. The book, which was intended for learning Latin, is now an important source for the German-language vocabulary of the late Middle Ages.
In 1486 his Grammatica: literalis scientia interpretata , a Latin grammar , was published in Memmingen .
Fonts
- Vocabularius rerum , [Strasbourg]: [Johann Grüninger], [around 1485/87] ( digitized version )
- Vocabularius rerum , copy from the Bavarian State Library
literature
- Nina Pleuger: “Vocabularium rerum” by Wenzeslaus Brack. Investigation and edition of a late medieval compendium. (Studia Linguistica Germanica; Vol. 76). Berlin: de Gruyter 2005. Zugl .: Münster, Univ., Diss., 2004. ISBN 3-11-018317-X (first complete edition and translation)
- Helmut Maurer: Constance in the Middle Ages: II. From the Council to the beginning of the 16th century . Constance: Stadler 1989. ISBN 3-7977-0224-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Wenzeslaus Brack in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wenzeslaus Brack in the complete catalog of the cradle prints (GW number BRACWEN)
- Description of the Salzburg autograph of Vocabularius rerum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brack, Wenceslaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Misna, Wenczeslaus; Brack, Wenceslaus; Prack, Wenceslaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Early humanist and dictionary author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meissen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1495 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |