Conrad Leontorius

Konrad Töritz , also Conradus Leontorius (* around 1465 in Leonberg ; † January 7, 1511 in Engenthal ( Basel )) was a German Cistercian monk , theologian and humanist . He later called himself in the Greek or Latinized form after his place of birth.

Live and act

Leontorius is said to have been to Johann Amerbach's in Basel in the mid-1470s and probably also met Johannes Reuchlin there. He remained connected to Reuchlin all his life. Later he entered the Cistercian monastery of Maulbronn as a monk , where Leontorius also took his religious vows . From 1489 to 1495 he was secretary of the Abbot General of the Cistercian Order Jean de Cirey († 1503) in Dijon . In the meantime, on June 23, 1492, Leontorius can be found in the register of the University of Heidelberg ; it remains to be seen whether he studied there. He spent several months in Heidelberg and was in the service of Bishop Johann III. from Dalberg . He later traveled through Italy and France, probably to continue his studies. So he stayed in Rome in 1489 . Then he was a conventual in the Alsatian monastery Pairis near Colmar . Through his friend and sponsor Johannes Reuchlin, he was inspired to study the Hebrew language beyond Greek and Latin . Like his confidante Reuchlin, Conrad was convinced that knowledge of the Hebrew language was the first to guarantee a thorough understanding of the Holy Scriptures . In 1503 he came into contact with the Cistercian convent in Engenthal not far from Muttenz , where Leontorius worked as a confessor .

Leontorius maintained close connections to other humanists such as Jacob Wimpfeling , Johannes Trithemius and Konrad Celtis as well as to the Basel book printer Johannes Petri .

Works

• Textus biblie cu [m] glossa ordinaria Nicolai de lyra postilla moralitatibus eiusdem Pauli Burge [n] sis additio [n] ibus Matthie Thoring replicis… Addita quibus sunt nuperrime vltra dilige [n] tissimam & castigatissima [m] eme [n] dationes & lima [m] historie no [n] inuenuste: et figurate littere capitis cuiuslibet exordioque totam rem descripta [m] clarius qu [ae] possit aperiunt.
• Repertorium alphabeticum sententiarum prestantium, & scitu dignarum, ueteris & noui testamenti contentiuum: decerptarum ex glossa ordinaria, glossa interlineari: Postilla literali & morali Nicolai Lyrani… ac questione quodlibetica; eiusdem utrum Messias deus & homo existens, & in lege promissus, uenerit; an adhuc uenturus a iudaeis uere expectetur; libello responsali obinctionibus cuiusdam iudei contra evangelium Matthei: item ex Pauli Episcopi Burgensis Iudaismum repudiantis additionibus an postillam; praeterae ex Matthiae Thoring, correctorio sive replicis

literature

• Franz Posset: Leontorius, Conrad. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume 19, Nordhausen 2001, Sp. 896–900.
• Franz Posset: Renaissance Monks. Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches. Leiden / Boston 2005.
• Ludwig Geiger:  Leontorius, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 315.

Web links

• Roman Seifert: Konrad Leontorius. Lexicon of persons of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft [5]
• Volker Trugenberger: The Leonberger room at the turn of the Middle Ages to the modern age. Economy and population. [6]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ possibly also Toritz
2. ↑ Leontorius, Conradus, leo-bw.de [1]
3. ↑ Ludwig Geiger: Leontorius, Conrad (Leonberg, Löwenberg), Deutsche Biographie, www.deutsche-biographie.de Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ In the epoch of humanism , it was popular among scholars to translate their names into ancient Greek and mostly to add the Latin ending -us instead of Greek -os . A part of the name in Greek Λέων ( transliteration : Léon ) means “lion” and ὄρος ( transliteration : Oros “mountain”).
5. ↑ 18. The teacher's shadow - Markus Kutter [2]
6. ↑ Harald Müller: Habit and Habitus: Monks and Humanists in Dialog. Vol. 32 Late Middle Ages and Reformation, Mohr Siebeck, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-1614-9123-8 , p. 296 f.
7. ↑ a member with voting rights within a monastery community
8. ^ Conrad of Leonberg. New Advent, 2012 Kevin Knight. Catholic Encyclopedia. [3]
9. ↑ Roman Seifert: Konrad Leontorius. Lexicon of persons of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft [4]
10. ↑ Lucas Burkart: Konrad Leontorius. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 6, 2006 , accessed June 29, 2019 .