Andreas Meinhardi

Andreas Meinhardi , also: Meynhart; Meynhardt, Manhart, Mayner, Mynar etc. (* in the 1470s in Pirna ; † 1525/1526 in Wittenberg ) was a German humanist .

Education

Memorial plaque on Markt 18 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Meinhardi began studying at the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 1493 . In 1495 he became a Baccalaureus and on December 28, 1501 acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in the seven liberal arts . Meinhardi stayed in Leipzig for a few years, but was dissatisfied with the conditions at the university. In a memorandum that he submitted to Duke Georg von Sachsen on October 25, 1502 , he denounced the laziness of the teachers in the upper faculties and the adversities in the philosophical faculty.

Work in Wittenberg

Because of this dissatisfaction, he moved to the University of Wittenberg in the winter semester of 1504/05 , where he was accepted into the Senate of the Faculty of Philosophy in August 1505 and was Associate Professor of the litterae seculares in 1507 .

During this time, at the suggestion of Martin Pollich , he worked on a book about Wittenberg ( Dialogus ... Vittenberg , 1508). Dressed in the style of humanistic student conversations in dialogue form, the book is a panegyric on Wittenberg. It emphasizes the advantages of the city given by nature, mentions its facilities and sights. He particularly praises the castle church and the university, the Ernestines , their main advisors and numerous important Wittenbergers of that time. The book must have made such an impression on the Wittenberg council that he was appointed town clerk in 1508 , which he remained until the end of his life. A large number of his book were certainly printed, but without reprint. To date, only three copies of the book have survived, which are in Dresden, the Zwickau Council Library and in Jena.

Meinhardi had been a member of St. Sebastian's rifle brotherhood since 1509, had a house in Coswigviertel and owned three gardens in front of the Coswig Gate.

Meinhardi thus experienced the beginnings of the Reformation in "Lutherstadt".

family

Meinhardi was married twice. His wife, married in 1508, died in 1510. He then married Hanna Moshauer († autumn 1527), a sister of Johannes Agricola's wife . She survived her husband and was married to the pharmacist Ignatius Wolff from Wittenberg. The children Andreas and Barbara are known from the second marriage; the latter married the theologian Andreas Musculus .

A plaque commemorates Meinhardi at the Wittenberg town hall.

Works

• Dialogus illustrate ac Augustissime urbis Albiorene vulgo Vittenberg dicte Situm Amenitatem ac Illustrationem docens Tirocinia nobilium artiu iacentibus Editus . Martin Landsberg, Leipzig 1508. - Translation: Martin Treu (Hrsg.): About the location, the beauty and the fame of the famous, beautiful city of Albioris, commonly called Wittenberg . Publishing house Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1986.

literature

• J. Klaus Kipf: Meinhardi (Meynar, -hart, Mynar), Andreas . In: Franz Josef Worstbrock (Ed.): German Humanism 1480-1520. Author's Lexicon , Vol. 2. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin + New York 2009–2013, Col. 209–213.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johannes Haußleiter: The University of Wittenberg before Luther's entry . According to the description of Mag. Andreas Meinhardi from 1507 . Second print, Deichert, Leipzig 1903.
2. ^ Nikolaus Müller : The Wittenberg Movement 1521 and 1522. The events in and around Wittenberg during Luther's stay in the Wartburg. Letters, files and similar personal details. Leipzig 2nd edition 1911.