Daniel Mauch (Canon)

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Georg Witzel , dedication to Daniel Mauch, volume 5 of his work “Typus ecclesiae prioris” , 1558

Daniel Mauch , also Daniel Mauchius (born June 27, 1504 in Ulm ; † May 19, 1567 , presumably in Worms ) was a German lawyer and canon of Worms .

Life

He was born the son of the Ulm wood sculptor Daniel Mauch († 1540) and his wife Rosa Stocker, daughter of the painter Jörg Stocker . Daniel Mauch (son) studied at the University of Heidelberg from 1519 , then in Cologne and Vienna , from 1522 at the University of Tübingen , where he obtained his Baccalaureus Artium .

In 1524 Mauch entered the service of Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggi, who was currently in Germany . A letter addressed to him by the theologian Erasmus of Rotterdam , dated October 1525, has survived. From 1525 to 1527 he accompanied Cardinal Campeggi's secretary Floriano Montini on a diplomatic mission to Moscow . Here he met the imperial ambassador Siegmund von Herberstein , with whom he later entered into a lively correspondence on the occasion of the publication of his Russian memoirs Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii ; the third edition of the work (1556) is dedicated to him. From 1529 Mauch perfected his studies at the University of Erfurt and attended the Diet of Augsburg with Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggi in 1530 . Two of his letters to the Ulm city doctor and humanist Wolfgang Rychard have been received from there.

Daniel Mauch switched to the service of the Brixen bishop Georg von Österreich in 1531 , from where he continued his studies at the University of Leuven in 1534 and obtained his doctorate in law at the University of Padua in 1536 . With the bishop - a son of Emperor Maximilian I - he toured France and Spain in 1540. 1534–1536 an exchange of letters with the Kulm bishop Johannes Dantiscus is documented. In 1542 Mauch became imperial counselor and lawyer at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer .

Unexpectedly, he entered the clergy and was accepted into the Worms Cathedral Chapter in 1544 , where he served as Cathedral Scholaster from 1545 until his death . Under Bishop Dietrich of Bettendorf had Daniel Mauch as vicar general in spiritual matters, in 1553 he was awarded by the Emperor Charles V the dignity of Hofpfalzgrafen . In 1552 he was accepted by the Reformation theologian Georg Witzel , who had returned to the Catholic Church, and in 1558, out of gratitude, he dedicated the 5th volume of the new edition of his work Typus ecclesiae prioris to him. Both participated, together with St. Petrus Canisius , on the Catholic side at the Worms Religious Discussion of 1557 .

There was also a friendship with the Reformed historian Johannes Basilius Herold (1514–1567), who called him his “ruling, instead of father's, venerable lord”, “who wandered through all art, all countries, caysers, kings and princes, lord and his Dear and dear to citizens ”. In this context, the Basel Contributions to History (1967) state that Mauch was a man after Herold's heart; "He was in the favor of the emperor and combined in his nature education, modesty and a kindness that benefited all scholars around him." In 1553, Herold referred to the merits of his friend Daniel Mauch in the foreword to his work Haereseologia .

Towards the end of his life, Mauch suffered from gout and could only preach while sitting. At that time he was pastor at the Richardikonvent Worms (nunnery by the cathedral). According to the historian Rüdiger Fuchs (Die Insschriften der Stadt Worms, 1991), Daniel Mauch was “one of the most respected and select members of the Worms cathedral chapter”, had contacts with prominent personalities of both denominations and worked in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation .

He died in 1567, probably in Worms, and received a painted epitaph in the north wing of the cathedral cloister, which was destroyed in 1689 . It was handed down by Georg Helwich (1588–1632).

literature

  • Rüdiger Fuchs: The inscriptions of the city of Worms. Volume 29 of: The German Inscriptions. Verlag L. Reichert, Wiesbaden, 1991, ISBN 3-88226-498-5 , (online) .
  • Peter G. Bietenholz, Thomas Brian Deutscher: Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8020-8577-6 , p. 409, (Google Books, CV in English) .
  • Franz Falk : The Worms Cathedral Scholaster Dr. D. Mauch († 1567). In: The Catholic . Volume 74, part 2, 1894, digitized .
  • Franz Falk: The Worms Cathedral Scholaster Dr. D. Mauch († 1567), addendum. In: The Catholic. Volume 78, Part 2, 1898, (digitized version) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles G. Nauert: The Correspondence of Erasmus. Volume 11. University of Toronto Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8020-0536-5 , pp. 323-326, (Digitalscan) .
  2. ^ Gilbert Tournoy: Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies. Leuven University Press, 1982, ISBN 90-6186-135-7 , pp. 160-162, (Digitalscan) .
  3. ^ Georg Veesenmeyer: Small contributions to the history of the Reichstag in Augsburg 1530. Nuremberg, 1830, pp. 40–44, (Digitalscan) .
  4. ^ Website for correspondence with Johannes Dantiscus .
  5. ^ Report on the academic year. University of Innsbruck, 1906, p. 141, (detail scan) .
  6. ↑ Georg Witzel's book with a dedication to Daniel Mauch (p. 1)
  7. ↑ Andrea Weibel: Johannes Basilius Herold. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 11, 2007 , accessed July 9, 2019 .
  8. ^ Philosophical consideration of the secret nature , 1744, p. 283; (Digital scan)
  9. ↑ Basel Contributions to History. Volumes 104–105, 1967, p. 142, (detail scan)
  10. ^ Website of the University Library of Basel with reference to Mauch's mention in the foreword to Herolds Haereseologia
  11. ^ Website of the Richardikonvent Worms
personal data
SURNAME Mauch, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mauchius, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and canon in Worms
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1504
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1567
Place of death unsure: Worms