Erasmus Ebner

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Erasmus Ebner

Erasmus Ebner , also Ebener, (born December 21, 1511 in Nuremberg , † November 24, 1577 in Helmstedt ) was a German diplomat, scholar and statesman.

Life

Born as the son of the councilor and supporter of the Reformation Hieronymus Ebner , he was sent to Philipp Melanchthon's private school in Wittenberg at the age of 11 . In the winter semester of 1523 he was already under Melanchthon's rectorate in the registers of the University of Wittenberg , accompanied his mentor to the Diet of Augsburg in 1530, and there copied the Latin copy of the Confessio Augustana for the council.

He then went on an educational trip to France and returned to Nuremberg. Since he had been scientifically and poetically active at an early age, he was entrusted with completing the city library from the dissolved monasteries. He was elected junior mayor in 1536 and senior mayor in 1552 and was often on diplomatic missions for the city. For example, he was present at the convent in Schmalkalden in 1537 , the religious discussion in 1540/41 in Worms and the Reichstag in Speyer in 1542 and 1544.

After the city of Nuremberg had committed itself to initially making payments to Margrave Albrecht II Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach in the Second Margrave War in 1552 , who besieged Nuremberg in vain but had devastated the surrounding area, Ebner apologized to Charles V for this and agreed the Frankish imperial estates, especially with the bishops of Würzburg and Bamberg , with Heinrich II. of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and the elector August of Saxony an alliance against the Brandenburg margrave.

This alliance brought about the resignation of the dukes of Lauenburg and Lüneburg, as well as the cities of Hamburg and Lübeck in 1554. In 1557 Ebner gave up his service in Nuremberg and went to the court of the King of England and Spain .

Around 1550 he achieved a breakthrough in brass production , the recovery of zinc from the by then discarded waste product of brass production (smelting of lead ores containing zinc), furnace galmei (an impure zinc oxide). Duke Heinrich von Braunschweig had a brass smelter opened in Goslar in 1552 under Ebener's management , in which the recovery process was tested. After successful implementation, the procedure spread to other locations in the Harz Mountains (Wernigerode, Ilsenburg), in Kassel in Ilmenau. Ebener also received other smelting operations as fiefs. Ebener was an advisor to the dukes of Brunswick and in 1569 became court advisor to Duke Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. In this function he was involved in the investigation against the gold maker Philipp Sömmering in 1573 and in 1575, as a church councilor, he advised the sovereign princes on the establishment of the University of Helmstedt .

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  1. ^ Claus Priesner : Bavarian brass. Franz Matthias Ellmayr's "Mößing-Werk AO" 1780 , Franz Steiner 1997
personal data
SURNAME Ebner, Erasmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, scholar and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1511
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1577
Place of death Helmstedt