Caspar Schober

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Caspar Schober on his epitaph in the Speyer Cathedral

Caspar Schober , often also Kaspar Schober (* 1504 , in Ingolstadt ; † November 20, 1532 in Speyer ) was a law professor and judge at the Imperial Court of Speyer.

Live and act

Caspar Schober came from the long-established middle class and host family Schober from Ingolstadt. His father Georg Schober († 1547) was mayor of the city for many years.

In 1514 the boy began his studies in Ingolstadt and was enrolled in 1521 at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg , then Austria , where he became a student of the humanist Konrad Heresbach (1496–1576), with whom he remained lifelong.

From here he moved in 1525 with his friend Johann von Vlatten (1498–1562) to Bologna , where he lived and studied until 1527. On January 14, 1528, Caspar Schober received his doctorate juris utriusque (both rights) in Ferrara and returned home. At the University of Ingolstadt he taught as a professor of law and also taught Greek literature.

Already in 1529 the Bavarian Duke Wilhelm IV became aware of him and presented him as assessor - d. H. as judge - to the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer.

In 1532 Caspar Schober was sent on a diplomatic mission to see Emperor Charles V in Brussels . He had hardly returned to Speyer on November 20 of that year, at the age of almost 29, of a fever that he contracted on the trip.

The local historian Ludwig Gemminger describes Caspar Schober as "an excellent ornament of the Schober family" and a "rare ornament of the city of Ingolstadt" .

According to a note in the university registers of Ingolstadt, the spiritual humanist and apostolic protonotary Celio Calcagnini (1479–1541) wrote an eulogy for Caspar Schober in Ferrara, which he handed down on sheet 550 in his “Opera aliquot” (published posthumously, Basel, 1544) is. Calcagnini was one of the most famous Italian intellectuals of his time and a friend of Nicolaus Copernicus .

Burial and tombstone

Epitaph by Caspar Schober in the Speyer Cathedral
Former Cloister on the south side of the Speyer Cathedral. It served as the cathedral's burial place until 1689; the Mount of Olives Chapel in the middle is still standing.

Schober was buried in the cloister of the Speyer Cathedral , which went down in the city fire of 1689 and remained a ruin. In 1820 the remains were also removed, whereby Schober's grave slab ended up in the St. Afra chapel of the cathedral and was embedded in its northern inner wall, where it is still located today. The very artful and finely crafted Renaissance epitaph with a resurrection scene after Martin Schongauer is attributed to the Eichstatt sculptor Loy Hering or his workshop. An almost identical counterpart, probably created by the same artist, is the grave slab of the ducal Bavarian magistrate Sigmund Langenmantel († 1545) in the parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Kelheim .

Caspar Schober's brother Thomas († 1572, in Vienna) was also a legal scholar and succeeded him as a judge at the Imperial Court of Speyer. Later (from 1558) he was promoted to the Imperial Court Council of Emperors Ferdinand I and Maximilian II. The brother-in-law of both brothers, Nicolaus Everhardus (senior) (1495–1570), also worked in the same position at the Imperial Court of Speyer from 1535. It can be assumed that these two relatives residing in Speyer had the splendid grave slab placed in the cloister of the Speyer Cathedral. It says on it that "Father Georg" had it built. The suggestion for the tomb clearly came from the Schober family themselves and was probably carried out on site by the two family members present.

On Caspar Schober's epitaph in the Speyer Cathedral, both himself and a family coat of arms are depicted under the risen Christ. The brother Thomas Schober, and with him the family, is said to have been raised to the nobility by Emperor Charles V, after which they carried a coat of arms. The family coat of arms on Caspar Schober's tombstone could therefore also be an indication of the authorship by the newly ennobled and coat of arms-bearing brother Thomas. The family called themselves after the ennoblement "Schober von Tachenstein"

The Eichstätter Canon and Ingolstadt professor of theology and vice-chancellor of the university, Albrecht Hunger (1545–1604), was the great-nephew of Caspar Schober; he called himself his "pronepos about the maternal line" . His father Wolfgang Hunger was married to Schober's niece Anna Spiess, whose mother Elisabeth Schober was Caspar Schober's sister.

literature

  • Ludwig Gemminger: "Das alte Ingolstadt", pages 234 and 235, Pustet Verlag, Regensburg, 1864 scan from the source

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Wolf: "History of the Ingolstadt Faculty of Law: 1472-1625" , Volume 5, page 97, Duncker and Humblot Publishing House, 1973, ISBN 3428029410 ; Excerpt from the source
  2. ↑ Carl Prantl: "History of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Ingolstadt, Landshut, Munich: To celebrate its four hundredth anniversary" , Volume 1, 1968, page 209; Excerpt from the source
  3. ^ W. Kohlhammer: "Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg: Research, Volumes 18-21" , pages 42 and 87; Excerpts from the source
  4. ↑ On the importance of the office of "Assessor" at the Reich Chamber of Commerce ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Ludwig Gemminger: "Das alte Ingolstadt" , page 234, Pustet Verlag, Regensburg, 1864
  6. ^ "Journal of the Historisches Verein für Schwaben" , Volumes 33–38, page 76; Excerpt from the source
  7. ↑ Scan of the complete (Latin) eulogy for Caspar Schober, from the "Opera aliquot" by Celio Calcagnini
  8. ^ "Voices from Maria Laach" , Volume 72, Pages 21 and 28; Excerpts from the source
  9. ↑ Johannes von Geissel : "The Imperial Cathedral of Speyer: a topographical-historical monograph" , Volume 1, 1826, page 241, footnote 412; Scan from the source
  10. ^ Peter Reindl: "Loy Hering" , Historisches Museum Basel, 1977, pages 480 and 481; Excerpts from the source
  11. ↑ Felix Mader: “Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern, Bezirksamt Kelheim” , Oldenbourg, 1922, reprint 1983, pages 172 and 173; Scan from the source
  12. ^ Theodor Muther:  Everhardus, Nicolaus (II.) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 435-437.
  13. ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner: "Memorable and useful Bavarian Antiquarian". Department 1, Adelicher Antiquarius, Volume 2, Der oldbayerische kleine Adel, page 222, Heraldisches Institut München, 1867; Scan from the source
  14. ↑ Helmut Wolff: "History of the Ingolstädter Juristenfakultät 1472-1625" , Duncker and Humblot, 1973, page 111, ISBN 3428029410 ; Excerpt from the source
  15. ^ Website on Albrecht Hunger
personal data
SURNAME Schober, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schober, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Legal scholar, judge at the Reich Chamber of Commerce, university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1504
PLACE OF BIRTH near Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1532
Place of death Speyer