Caspar Landsidel

Caspar Landsidel (* around 1514 in Leipzig ; † March 9, 1560 there ) was a German pedagogue and rhetorician.

Life

Landsidel was enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 1527 and in 1534 he obtained his master's degree there . Enthusiastic about the Reformation , he went to the University of Wittenberg in the winter semester of 1536 , although Duke Georg von Sachsen had strictly forbidden his subjects to visit this institution. In the summer of 1541 he worked again as a humanist university teacher in Leipzig. There he gave lectures on Virgil and Terence as well as on poetics.

On April 21, 1543, Landsidel was admitted to the college of professors and since 1545 he has held the professorship for Quintilian , who was also primarily the subject of his scientific work. In 1548 his comrades in office, Professors Joachim Camerarius the Elder and Wolfgang Meurer , proposed him for the post of Rector in the Pforta State School , which was vacant due to the unauthorized departure of Rector Cyriacus Lindemann . Landsidel held the office of dean at the philosophical faculty at that time .

Why he was persuaded in his prestigious position at the university to take over the rectorate in Pforte is unknown. He later regretted it very much. On May 12, 1548, the electoral council Georg von Komerstadt approved the appointment, and at the end of June the new rector was personally appointed to his office by Joachim Camerarius. Nothing is known about his administration in the school gate. But from the steady development of the school and the fact that Camerarius sent two of his sons to the school gate and also recommended the school to others, it can be concluded that the principal was up to his duties.

But like his predecessors, his relationship with the school administrator caused him great problems. A new administrator had taken office in May 1550, but it was with him that he had differences. In a letter to Meurer dated September 14, 1550, he expressed the wish to leave Pforte and returned to the University of Leipzig in the summer of 1551. In the winter of 1551/52 he was even made rector there. Three years later, Landsidel followed the call to become the rector of a school and headed the Szczecin pedagogy until 1557 . He introduced school laws in Stettin, some of which correspond to the school rules in Pforta, the "Forma disciplinae" of 1546. He returned from Stettin to Leipzig University in the summer of 1557 and is mentioned in 1558 as a professor of rhetoric .

Works

• Thomae Linacri Britanni de emendata structura Latini sermonis libri VI: accessit libellus eiusdem Cam. de arte grammatica & figuris dictionum; Quae nunc primum in lucem edita fuerunt; Unä cum indice diligentißimo / recogniti a Joach. Cam. Pab. et locis unde exempla adducta fuerunt, indicatis 5 Caspare Landsidelio Lips., Leipzig, 1545
• Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius: M. Fabii Quintiliani liber decimus explicatus studio et industria Casparis Landsidelii. Leipzig, 1548
• In M. Fabii Quintiliani institutionum librum decimum doctissimorum virorum annotationes. Kempe Phil. Melanthonis, Jo. Veltcurionis, Jo. Stigelii, Casparis Landsidelii; summo studio digestae et editae per Stephanum Riccium / Philipp Melanchthon. Leipzig around 1570

literature

• Inscriptiones Lipsienses, that is a list of all sorts of memorable headings, grave and memorial meals in Leipzig ... / made by Salomon Stepnern [Ed.]. - Lipsiae: Scipio, 1675 [published] 1686, p. 84
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholars lexicon, in which the scholars of all classes ... are described in alphabetical order. Second part DL. Leipzig: Gleditsch, 1751, column 2240
• Corpus reformatorum; VIII. - Halls Saxonum: Schwetschke, 1841, p. 226
• Carl Friedrich Heinrich Bittcher: Gatekeeper Album: Directory of all teachers and students of the royal family. Prussia. Pforta State School from 1543 to 1843; a memorandum for the institution's third secular celebration on May 21, 1843. Leipzig, 1843, p. 543
• Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Hasselbach: Contribution to the history of the local high school from 1543 to 1593., Stettin, 1851
• The register of the University of Leipzig / on behalf of the Royal Saxon State Government ed. by Georg Frier. Leipzig: Giesecke & Devrient, 1895-1897 (Codes diplomaticus Saxoniae Regiae: main part 2)
• Friedrich Zarncke: Acta Rectorum Universitatis studii Lipsiensis find from anno MDXXIIII usque ad annum MDLVIIII auctoritate et auspicüs Joannis Pauli de Falkenstein ..., Leipzig, 1859
• Paul Flemming: Contributions to the history of Schulpforta in the years 1548-1553. In: Festschrift for the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Königl. Saxon. Princely and State School Grimma, dedicated by the Königl. Pforta State School. - Naumburg a. S., 1900, pp. 3-5, 12, 15, 25
• Paul Flemming: Letters and files on the oldest history of Schulpforta: a contribution to the history of the school in the years 1543-1548. - Naumburg a. S., 1900, p. 30
• Fritz Hexer: The Rectors of the Pforta State School. In: Die Pforte: Journal of the gatekeeper association. 19th year 1942, issue 1, pp. 13-16
• Petra Dorfmüller: rectores portenses - life and works of the rectors of the Pforta state school from 1543 to 1935. Sax Verlag, Beucha 2006, ISBN 3-934544-96-7 , p. 25