Christoph Preuss von Springenberg

Christoph Preuss von Springenberg (also: Preiß, Preuß, Prays, Pannonius, vom Springburg ; born January 25, 1515 in Pressburg , † April 9, 1590 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a Hungarian poet and rhetorician.

Life

Pannonius had received his first academic training in Goldberg under Valentin Potsendorf . In the summer semester of 1536 he matriculated at the University of Wittenberg . Here he got to know Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, among others . On September 19, 1538 he had acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in Wittenberg. This enabled him to pursue an academic career. After a short stay as a rhetoric teacher in Goldberg near Potsendorf, in 1540 he was appointed professor of poetics at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) . He followed this at the beginning of 1541, where he was accepted into the philosophy faculty in the summer semester of 1541 as a professor.

Preuss also took part in the organizational tasks of the Frankfurt University. In the summer semesters 1542, 1548 and 1556 he was dean of the philosophical faculty and in the summer semesters 1543 and 1553 rector of the alma mater. In 1541, Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg took him with him as secretary to the Reichstag of Regensburg . In addition, he had accompanied him to Hungary as a Latin secretary in 1542, where the elector took part in the Turkish war . When he returned to Frankfurt, he entered into regular correspondence with Melanchthon.

As a good poet, he was particularly interested in the great rhetorician Marcus Tullius Cicero . In 1558 he followed a call as a lawyer to Olomouc . For the Moravian capital he had to clarify some matters at the court of Emperor Ferdinand during this time , for whom he himself took on some services, for which he was raised to the nobility with the title "Vom Springenberg". In 1565 he went to Thorn as a lawyer . From 1579 he spent the last years of his life in Königsberg, where he was given the professorship of rhetoric. In 1582 he was also the rectorate of the university .

literature

• Preyß, Christoph. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 29, Leipzig 1741, column 380.
• Hermann Freytag: The Prussians at the University of Wittenberg and the non-Prussian students of Wittenberg in Prussia from 1502–1602. Duncker and Humblot Publishing House, Leipzig 1903, p. 92.
• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Part 2, Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia 1746, p. 406 f.
• Michael Höhle: University and Reformation - The University of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1506 to 1550. Verlag Böhlau, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-412-15101-7 , p. 486.