Bartholomäus Schobinger

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Bartholomäus Schobinger (also Bartholome Schowinger; * January 14, 1500 , † July 16, 1585 ) was a merchant and alchemist in St. Gallen .

Life

Bartholomew Schobinger was the son of Hans Schobinger, 1490 during the siege of St. Gallen äbtischer captain , 1506-1521 äbtischer Obervogt the castle Oberberg who naturalized himself in 1520 in St. Gallen. His mother was Elisabetha Schobinger, geb. from Kienberg . His brother Heinrich Schobinger (1489–1537) settled in Munich as a merchant in 1517 ; with this he was in close business contact and from this the Schobinger'sche Handelsgesellschaft developed.

After his first wedding, he became very wealthy through his iron and textile trade and mining. He was also involved in public affairs and dealt with scholarly questions of alchemy, but also the church reform movement, which he joined. He was also closely linked to the reformers John Kessler and Joachim Vadian friends and was in close contact with the reformer and alchemist Raphael Eglin , in turn, with Johann Conrad Meyer, mayor in Schaffhausen , with whom he was distantly related by his second wife, in connection was standing.

Schobinger was a builder from 1535 to 1548 and from 1553 to 1555 and held the office of councilor from 1550 to 1582 , during this time he held the office of coin tester in 1559 and in 1561 was tester for goldsmiths and pewter, 1565 chairman of the coin inspectors, in the years 1566, 1571 and 1572 he was ordained in the mint .

He was interested in the chemical science of his time and was in personal contact with Paracelsus when he was in St. Gallen in 1531. He also produced the font Rosarium Philosophorum , a compendium that gathers alchemical knowledge from various sources and traditions and presents it in text and images.

He also developed a recipe that the Benedictine monk Wolfgang Seidel (1492–1562) used to make something that he called artificial horn and from which today's plastic Galalith was further developed; the original recipe was written down in 1530 in the Augsburg house of the Fuggers and is currently the oldest known German recipe for plastic .

Weinstein Castle with vineyards in the upper village of Marbach

In 1531 and 1560 he and various brothers and nephews received coats of arms from Emperor Ferdinand I , who was still king in 1531 .

Bartholomäus Schobinger built Horn Castle in Horn and also owned Weinstein Castle in Marbach . He was a member of the Society for the Notenstein .

Bartholomäus Schobinger first married Anna in 1525; Daughter of the guild master Michael Schappeler and thus he also received the citizenship of the city of St. Gallen. In his second marriage from 1528 he was married to Helena, daughter of Christian Studer, and from 1548 in his third marriage to Elsbetha Sattler from Constance .

The names of his 20 children are known:

  • Barbara Schobinger (born September 3, 1539 in St. Gallen; † October 25, 1571 in Schaffhausen), married to Heinrich Peyer († 1582 in Königsfelden )
  • Bartholomäus Schobinger, studied at the University of Augsburg
  • David Schobinger
  • Junker Schobinger, who took over Heerbrugg Castle in 1598 .
  • Tobias Schobinger (born April 26, 1539 in St. Gallen; † May 21, 1619 ibid), landowner and mathematician, married to Magdalena, b. Kobler (* 1556 in St. Gallen; † July 6, 1640 there); their son Sebastian Schobinger later became mayor of St. Gallen.

Trivia

The medalist and carver Friedrich Hagenauer made a portrait medal of Schobinger.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guido Schmidlin: Giordano Bruno - life, work and impact history . Books on Demand, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7431-0485-3 , pp. 13 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ German Plastic Museum: Recipe for making artificial horn. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ E. Hahn: A portrait medal by Friedrich Hagenauer. In: Anzeiger für Schweizerische Altertumskunde Volume 13 (1911), Issue 3, pp. 187 f. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schobinger, Bartholomäus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schobinger, Bartholome; Schobinger, Bartolome; Schobinger, Bartholemäus; Schobingerus, Bartholemäus; Schobingerus, Bartholomäus; Schobinger, Bartlome; Schobinger, Bartholomaeus; Schobingerus, Bartholomaeus; Schowinger, Bartholome; Schowinger, Bartholomäus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss merchant and alchemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1500
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1585