Albert Varrentrapp

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Coat of arms of Albert and Heinrich Varrentrapp from August 4, 1417

Albert Varrentrapp , also dominus Albertus dictus Varentrap (* 1375 on Gut Fahrentrappe in Elfringhausen near Hattingen , North Rhine-Westphalia ; † 1438 ) was a Roman Catholic canonist who worked at the universities of Prague, Leipzig and Cologne.

origin

"The Varrentrapp family came from an old, free Westphalian peasant dynasty who owned a farm" on the Varrentrapp "near Herzkamp on the Bache Farnthrapa, which was documented as early as 837. One branch of the Varrentrapp family flourished on the Varrentrapp estate until 1730, another took since 1622 his stay in the city of Hattingen and was still there in 1714, or if you include the Frankfurt branch, there until 1775. From the Hattingen branch of the family in 1681 Konrad and in 1685 his brother Heinrich Abraham Varrentrapp acquired citizenship in Frankfurt am Main. where the descendants of Heinrich Abraham Varrentrapps still live in a branch today. "

Career

Varrentrapp was initially taught at the Latin School in Hattingen and studied at the University of Prague , where he completed the artes liberales in 1400 and obtained the bachelor's degree . In 1402 he received his master's degree and in 1404 a doctorate in spiritual law. He worked in Prague until 1409, where he was deposed as dean as a result of the religious and political disputes in connection with Johannes Hus over church reform and the Czechization of the previously German university. From 1409 to 1423 he worked as a Magister Artium at the Artistic Faculty and as a Magister for the Law Faculty at the University of Leipzig founded by Friedrich the arguable . In 1423 he was entered in the registry of the University of Cologne as a "canonicus", that is to say as a member of the Liège cathedral chapter and as a doctor of spiritual rights . From 1423 to 1437 he exercised various spiritual functions in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

Council of Constance

From 1415 he represented the University of Leipzig together with Johannes Otto von Münsterberg and Petrus Storch at the Council of Constance , where he was named as a family member in 1417 and as King Sigismund's secretary in 1420 . On August 4, 1417 King Sigismund gave Albert Varrentrapp a coat of arms as "magister in artibus et baccalaureus in decretis" and his brother Heinrich Varrentrapp . Based on the name, it contained a silver bustard with a golden, three-pronged ladder that the bird holds in its claws.

Council of Basel

Varrentrapp represented the Cologne Church from 1433 to 1435 at the Council of Basel (1431–1449), the last major attempt at reforming the church.

Afterlife

Albert Varrentrapp's necrology was written on September 30, 1438. In the museum in the iron house (Hattingen) the last gravestone of the Vahrentrap farm from the churchyard of the parish of Hattingen is on display.

E. Bömer describes Varrentrapp in his study of the spiritual structure of the population in the Ennepe-Ruhr district the clergy as "a personality of European proportions".

literature

  • Arnswaldt, Werner : From the history of the Varrentrapp family , Frankfurt a. M. 1908 - online edition of the Universitäts- u. State Library Düsseldorf, 2015 [1]
  • Enno Bünz : A Leipzig professor comes to light. The unknown portrait of the lawyer Albert Varrentrapp from 1426 . In: NASG 80 (2009), pp. 237-248.
  • Heinrich Eversberg : The new city of Hattingen. Landscape and history . Hattingen 1980.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Varrentrapp, family
  2. ↑ XI: The documents of Emperor Sigmund. 1410 / 11-1437, XI, 1 Regesten Sigmund 1410 / 11-1424, ed. Altmann. 1896. ( Memento of April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Heinrich Eversberg: The new city of Hattingen. Landscape and history . Hattingen 1980.
  4. ↑ The Ennepe-Ruhr district. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the district , edited on behalf of the district council, Schwelm 1954.
personal data
SURNAME Varrentrapp, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar, secretary to King Sigismund and participant in the Council of Constance
DATE OF BIRTH 1375
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Fahrentrappe , Elfringhausen near Hattingen , North Rhine-Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH 1438