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Bartholomäus Stein (also: Barthel Sthenus ; * around 1477 in Brieg , Duchy of Brieg ; † around 1520 in Breslau ) was a German humanist and geographer.

Life

Bartholomäus Stein was the son of Brieger Ratmann and later mayor Georg Stein. In the summer semester of 1495 he moved to the University of Cracow , where he became the first to describe Wroclaw and Silesia. He went through the artistic course, got a baccalaureate in the winter semester of 1498 and a master's degree in the seven liberal arts in the beginning of 1501 . The next summer he read about the Achilles of Publius Papinius Statius , a sign of his humanistic inclinations . In the summer of 1505 he was at the University of Vienna , where he was enrolled as a scholar of medicine and was a student of Konrad Celtis . However, he returned to Krakow to the arts faculty. In the winter semester of 1506 he read, still as an extraneus non de facúltate, about the small physical writings of Aristotle , in the summer of 1507 about his economics and in the winter of 1507/8 about the Tusculans Marcus Tullius Cicero .

He did not finish the last college because he left Kraków before Lent to mentor the sons of the Breslau merchant Leonhard Vogel from Coburg, Christoph and Wilhelm, who had come to Kraków in the summer of 1507, to Wittenberg , where they went to Christoph Scheurl had invited. Stein came into conflict with Scheurl because of the boys. Out of consideration for the wishes of Bishop Johann V. Thurzo , Scheurl turned to the reformers of the university because of a teaching assignment for stone. In the spring of 1509 he was offered the previously non-existing professorship in mathematics as a Cracow man. However, he turned them down and was given the professorship of geography .

This made him the first appointed professor of this science at a German university. As a basis for his lectures, he re- edited De chorographia des Pomponius Mela . On November 23, 1509, he gave the customary eulogy for St. Catherine, the patron saint of the Wittenberg artist faculty . In his lectures he himself explained the shape of the inhabited world. In doing so, he gave the residents of the same a basis so that they could explain their living space. Generals received the necessary geographical knowledge, private individuals were familiarized with traffic geography, and poets were given local knowledge. Geography thus served as a useful aid to broad professions, it promoted the love of home because it created identification and created an understanding for classical literature.

In 1512 he was in Leipzig and published a Carmen commendaticium on Hieronymus Emser's Vita Bennonis of St. Benno . When he returned to Silesia, he joined the St. John's Convent at Corpus Christi in Breslau as a priest. In his leisure hours around the winter of 1512 to 1513, he wrote his dignified description of Breslau and Silesia and a compendium of Jewish history, which was printed in Nuremberg in 1523 through Johann Hess . As early as 1520 he was probably no longer alive.

Works

• Descriptio lotius Silesiae , Breslau: Trewendt & Granier, 1927
• Descriptio Vratislaviae , Breslau: Trewendt & Granier, 1927

literature

• Gustav Bauch:  Stein, Bartholomäus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 601 f.
• Gustav Bauch: German Scholars in Cracow in the Renaissance Period 1460 to 1520. Seventy-eighth annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture. GP Anderholzbuchhandlung, Breslau, 1901, III. Historical Section Department; also as a special edition Commissions-Verlag by M. & H. Marcus, Breslau, 1901
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .

Web links

• Stenus Bartholomeus in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"