Albert Krantz (theologian)

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Albert Krantz

Albert Krantz , also Crantz or Crantzius , (born January 1, 1448 in Hamburg ; † December 7, 1517 in Hamburg) was a scholar and clergyman as well as a syndicus and diplomat on behalf of the Hanseatic cities of Lübeck and Hamburg.

Life

Gravestone in the Museum of Hamburg History

Albert Krantz, son of Eggert Krantz (1423–1478), moved to Rostock University in 1463 after attending the Hamburg Cathedral School (1465 Baccalaureus , 1467 Magister , 1480 professor , 1481–86 dean of the artist faculty ) and was elected rector in 1482. In 1483 he took part in the opening of the grave of his namesake Albertus Magnus in Cologne, where he also met Konrad Celtis .

1486-91 Krantz entered service as a syndicus in Lübeck (probably because of the Rostock cathedral dispute ) and supported the syndicus Johannes Osthusen there . In 1491 Krantz went to Mainz (doctorate in canon law ) and finished his studies in Perugia in 1493 (Dr. theol.).

Since May 1493 lector primarius at the Hamburg Cathedral , at the same time active as Syndicus for Lübeck, Hamburg and agent of the Hanseatic League , he wrote philosophical and theological writings in the following years. In 1496/97, as Senate Syndicus , he advised the Hamburg Mayor Hermann Langenbeck together with the Lübeck Syndicus Mattheus Packebusch on the revision of the city law ( city ​​book ), which became law in 1497. The dispute between the council and the cathedral chapter in Hamburg interrupted his diplomatic activity, and the interdict also required a break in the lecture , which Krantz used to write a comprehensive history of the North German-Hanseatic area in six books (1500-02, with addenda up to 1504 / 09). In 1503, together with Duke Friedrich of Schleswig, under the direction of the bishop and papal envoy Raimund Peraudi, he brokered the contract between the Sten Sture d. Ä. allied six Wendish cities under the leadership of Lübeck and John I of Denmark .

The posthumously printed works Wandalia (Cologne 1519), Saxonia (Cologne 1520), Chronica regnorum aquilonarium [Dania, Suecia, Norvagia] (German 1545, Latin Strasbourg 1546) and Metropolis (Basel 1548) combine the approach of the superior Hanseatic diplomat, the humanist shaped by Italian models and the reform-minded, but conservative theologian. Even after he was elected dean of the cathedral in Hamburg in 1508, Krantz served there as syndicus until his death.

His historical work is of particular importance as the “historian of the north”, the history of Lower Saxony , Scandinavia and Eastern Europe , especially their church history , and the Wandalia , the history of the Wends .

Works

Title page of the "Wandalia" print from 1636
  • "Wandalia" (Cologne 1519): "Of the splendid, highly educated Mr. Albert Crantzii Wandalia. Or: Description of the Wendish story: Inside the Wends actual evidence of many peoples and various metamorphoses ... From what so well in ... kingdoms ... Wendischer and other nations in Dennemarcken / Sweden / Poland / Vngarn / Bohemia / Austria / Moravia / Silesia / Brandenburg / Prussia / Reussen / Lieffland / Pomerania / Mecklenburg / Holstein " (Lübeck: Junge, 1636)
  • "Wandalia". De Wandalorum vera origine, variis gentibus, crebrisepatria migrationibus, regnis item, quorum vel autores vel euersores fuerunt. (Frankfurt 1575) Digitized
  • »Saxonia« (Cologne 1520): "Extensive, hard-working and correct description of the arrival, customs, regiment, religion, policeyen, wars ... and all sorts of stories ... of the Saxons, so it was several hundred years before the birth of Christ and followed 1504 added " (Leipzig 1582) Digitized, Latin edition Cologne 1573
  • "Chronica regnorum aquilonarium [Dania, Suecia, Norvagia]" (German 1545, Latin Strasbourg 1546): "Dennmärckische, Swedische vnd [and] Norwägische Chronica / Through the highly acclaimed Albertum Krantzium of Hamburg ... bitz vff the jarzal Christi MDiiij Describe. Newly sold by Henrich von Eppendorff " (Strasbourg 1545) digitized
  • "Metropolis" (Basel 1548): "Metropolis seu episcoporum in viginti dioecesibus Saxoniae catalogus usque ad annum 1585 deducta" (Strasbourg 1585)

materials

  • Stephan Macropus : Of the excellent, highly learned Mr. Albert Krantz VVandalia: or, description of Wendish history, in which the Wends actual origin, some völcker, and various transformations; sampt the great deeds accomplished, and what they either wrought before empires, or also destroyed; from what is so good in this next. as well as remote kingdoms, princes and dominions, Wendish and other nations in Dennemarcken, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, Austria, Moravia, Silesia, Brandenburg, Prussia, Reussen, Lieffland, Pomerania, Mecklenburg, Holstein, zc, over the thousand and more years of heroism happened and passed; whatever rulers, keysers, kings, choirs and princes, lived at any time, and whatever praiseworthy traded; Which shape is also special, the Easter and Wendish cities, Lübeck, Hamburg, Rostock, Wissmar, Stralsund and Lüneburg, which are located in this region, have risen to enjoy and receive, and whatever accidents and inconveniences they buy, superfluous, are reported thoroughly and immediately ; all lovers of historical truth, first of all by the author, prepared in Latin , Bey and presented by Laurentz Albrechts bookseller, 1600

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monmouth University
  2. ↑ see: matriculation , doctorate for bachelor's degree and doctorate for master’s degree by Albert Krantz in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Stoob: Albert Krantz; Pp. 91-96
  4. ^ Carl Mönckeberg: History of the free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg. Hamburg: Perstehl 1885, p. 149
personal data
SURNAME Krantz, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1448
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1517
Place of death Hamburg