Franz Köckritz

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Franz Köckritz called Faber (1497–1565)

Franz Köckritz , called Faber (born October 3, 1497 in Ottmachau , Principality of Neisse , † September 19, 1565 in Breslau , Principality of Breslau ), was a humanist , Latin poet and councilor in Breslau. He is one of the most important representatives of the literary High Renaissance in Silesia .

Life

Köckritz was a son of the blacksmith Vincenz Köckritz. He studied at the parish school at St. Jakobus in Neisse with Valentin Krautwald and took private lessons with Laurentius Corvinus in Breslau. Around 1518 he moved to the University of Cracow , where he studied under Rudolf Agricola junior . In 1520 Köckritz went to Leipzig , where the rector of the university, Petrus Mosellanus , entered him as a poet in the register list. In 1520 he participated with sharp epigrams in the struggle of the supporters of Erasmus of Rotterdam against the critic of the edition of the New Testament of 1516, Edward Lee .

His first major Latin poem Sylva Cui Titulus Bohemia also appeared in 1520. It describes the devastating moves of the Hussites under Jan Žižka through Silesia and the successful resistance of the city of Neisse. In 1521 Sylva de incendio Lutheranorum Librorum appeared , a fiery controversial poem for Martin Luther and Protestantism . Luther then praised him as “heroicum caput”.

In 1526 he entered the service of the city of Schweidnitz as a scribe (court clerk) . In 1527 he became a city notary and syndic . From 1535 to 1542 he was the town clerk in Schweidnitz. On April 17, 1538 Köckritz received the nobility. Three years later, due to his own childlessness, he asked King Ferdinand I to transfer the nobility and coat of arms to the Schweidnitz councilors Kaspar Fürstenau and Melchior Jahn, subject to their own continuation, which took place with a diploma of July 22, 1541.

In 1542 Köckritz went to Breslau as town clerk.

Up until his death in 1565, he made great contributions to the city's documents and privileges in Breslau . In 1554, King Ferdinand I appointed the Silesian nobleman Friedrich von Redern as Vitztum in Silesia, who for fiscal reasons began to examine the privileges of the city of Breslau, among other things. Köckritz has now received the order from the city council to present the most important privileges in writing from the old documents. His work was presented to the king in Augsburg in 1555 and the revision resulted in the chronicle known under the name Origines Vratislavienses or Fabri Liber Magnus , which is still only available as a manuscript. During this time Köckritz wrote another Latin poem, Sabothus, sive Silesia , which recalls the older Silesian history in 1243 heximeters . To this end, he has personalized the Zobtenberg (Sabothus) and the Silesian rivers in the poem and has them hidden from a “faun” in which Freiherr von Redern can easily be recognized. The loss of the Silesian freedom to the non-tribal Bohemians is lamented. When von Redern died in 1564, Köckritz wrote an appendix to Sabothus , the Faunus sideratus , in which he again commemorated the deceased in angry verses.

Köckritz was buried in the Magdalenenkirche in Breslau .

His epitaph read:

" Hic situs est, veteres Lygios qui carmine Primus Descripsit, Patriae victus amore FABER "

- Here rests one who first described the old Lygien in a song, the fatherland's great beloved FABER.
Franz Köckritz in an engraving by Nicolas II de Larmessin

Works

  • Sylva, cui Titulus Bohemia . Valentin Schuman, Leipzig, 1520. available online
  • Sylva de incendio Lutheranorum Librorum , Johannes Grunenberg, Wittenberg, 1521. OCLC 257732972 Contested poem against the burning of Martin Luther's writings. According to other sources, it appeared in Leipzig as early as 1520.
  • Sabothus, sive Silesia. In: Nicolaus Reusner: Itinerarium totius orbis. Conrad Waldkirch, Basel, 1592. This Latin poem about the Zobtenberg (Sabothus) in 1243 hexameters is one of the earliest descriptions of the Silesian landscape. It contains the earliest mention of the Silesian mountain spirit Rübezahl . A second edition was created by Gottfried Tilgner (pseudonym QATAVA ) in 1715 and is available online . The book has been translated in excerpts and provided with a biographical essay by Johann Jacob Füldener: Bio- & Bibliographia Silesiaca, That is: Schlesische Bibliothec und Bücher-Historie: Which contains a narrative and judgment of the printed Scriptoribus Rerum Silesiacarum ... . , Breslau, 1731, pp. 399-468
  • Origines Vratislaviensis , also called Fabri Liber Magnum or Collecteanea Francisci Fabri . A manuscript collection of the oldest documents and privileges of the city of Wroclaw and Silesia, supplemented by historical notes. It was handed over to King Ferdinand I in Augsburg on March 31, 1655, but was later expanded. The work is considered to be the central chronicle of the history of Silesia in the 16th century. Several copies have come down to us.
  • Liber privilegiorum and Index privilegiorum. Between 1542 and 1549. Wroclaw City Archives 82/28/0/4/510 and 82/28/0/4/539 . Independent manuscripts with the privileges of Wroclaw are also considered to be important historiographical works on the history of Wroclaw and Silesia. There are more manuscripts by Faber's hand in the Wroclaw City Archives.
  • Chronicon. Privileges for the city of Breslau, such as the Slesia divided into many principalities from Poland to the Crown of Behem and what was accidentally added harmless register by Franz Faber called Köckritz . Around 1547. Wroclaw City Archives 82/1286/0 / - / 14 . Another manuscript on the history of the city of Wroclaw. Title modified according to other sources.
  • Faunus Sideratus. 1564. A manuscript with Latin verses, as an addendum to Sobathus , on the occasion of the death of speakers with angry attacks against him.

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References and comments

  1. ^ The register of the University of Leipzig. Volume 1, summer semester 1520 Polonorum : , p 526: " Franciscus Faber Silesius poeta insignis ", d. H. famous poet.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette , Johann Karl Seidemann: Dr. Martin Luther's letters, missions and concerns: completely from the various editions of his works and letters, from other books and as yet unused manuscripts . tape 2 . Reimer, 1826, p. 9 .
  3. ↑ Hans-Jürgen von Witzendorff-Rehdiger: Die Breslauer Stadtschreiber 1272-1741. In: Yearbook of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau, Volume 5, 1960 p. 21, No. 92
  4. ^ Walter von Boetticher : The bestowal of nobility to the Fürstenau family. In: Archives for kin research . Volume 5, CA Starke, 1928, pp. 207-209. The coat of arms of the Fürstenau family , which was derived from the Köckritz coat of arms, is in the Austrian State Archives .
  5. ↑ There was a Vincenz Schmidtchen (from the old Wroclaw council family Schmidtchen / Fabri) 1510 at the University of Cracow, 1526 Schöppenschreiber in Schweidnitz and 1542–1565 town clerk in Breslau, completely analogous to Köckritz. Source: Hans-Jürgen von Witzendorff-Rehdiger: Die Breslauer Stadtschreiber 1272–1741. In: Yearbook of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau, Volume 5, 1960 p. 20, No. 91
  6. ↑ Theodor Crusius: Enjoyment of idle hours or all kinds of useful comments that serve to present gallant erudition. IV. Note The life of Francisci Fabri . tape XI . Michael Rorlach's widow and heir, Leipzig 1717, p. 91 .
  7. ^ Karl Gustav Kries. Historical development of the tax system in Silesia with participation in the general assemblies of the Landtag. A contribution to the history of the Silesian estates. Aderholz, Breslau, 1842. S. XI ff.
  8. ↑ Werner Bein: "Laus Silesiae": On the life and work of Franz Faber . In: Gerhard Kosellek (Hrsg.): Upper Silesian poets and scholars from humanism to the baroque. Aisthesis, 2000, p. 518. ISBN 9783895282904
  9. ^ Hugo Skutsch: Bibliotheca Silesiaca. , No. LXXVI, 1861, p. 28, no. 561, 1861
personal data
SURNAME Köckritz, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faber, Franz; Kockricius, Franciscus; Faber, Francis; Köckritz, Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist, Latin poet, historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1497
PLACE OF BIRTH Otmuchów , Principality of Neisse
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1565
Place of death Breslau , Principality of Breslau