Franz von Eick

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Franz von Eick (* 1619 in Cologne ; † 1686 (according to another source 1696) there) was a canon of the St. Gereon Monastery . He received his doctorate in secular and ecclesiastical law and taught as a professor in the law faculty at the old University of Cologne .

"Franz Eick and Death" (1663)

Life

Youth and education

Franz von Eick was the son of Ludger Eick and his wife Margarethe, née von Kreps. Franz and his brother Constantin lost their parents and grandparents Eick / Jabach to the plague in 1622 . The two orphans probably grew up in a Cologne monastery and were so shaped by the religious upbringing there that both brothers later chose a spiritual career.

Canon and scholar

Franz von Eick became a capitular canon at St. Gereon and taught from 1662 to 1686 as Professor Dr. jur. utr. in the subjects of secular and ecclesiastical law at the law faculty of the university, of which he was elected rector in 1685. Von Eick, was probably appointed Apostolic Protonotary in 1663 at the latest , as a painting depicting him, it was titled "Franz Eick and Death", shows his coat of arms crowned by a Protonotars hat (here in black) .

On July 12, 1683, von Eick invested in St. Gereon as a chorepiskopos . In the following years he and his aunt Christina Kreps, widow of a Cologne mayor , donated an extensive restoration of the Gereon Church. To finance the work, they donated money, gold and pearls from private property, but also interest income, which apparently had to be paid by the city of Ulm to the monastery, was used by von Eick for the new splendor of the church.

Von Eick resigned in old age as a canon in favor of Cologne's mayor's son Wilhelm von den Hoevel († 1714), who was replaced by Pope Innocent XI. was endowed with the canonical at St. Gereon. Other Eicks foundations and legacies were given a special form of storage, a container called the Cista Eickiana.

literature

  • Werner Schäfke , Kölnischer Bildersaal: The paintings in the holdings of the Cologne City Museum including the Porz collection and the Cologne high school and foundation fund . Publisher: Cologne: Kölnisches Stadtmuseum (January 1, 2006), ISBN 3-927396-94-X
  • Johann Christian Nattermann: The golden saints , history of the St. Gereon monastery in Cologne. Verlag Der Löwe, Cologne 1960. Publisher number: 33 / III / 60

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Johann Christian Nattermann: The Golden Saints , History of the St. Gereon Monastery in Cologne. P. 419 ff
  2. ↑ a b c Werner Schäfke, Kölnischer Bildersaal: The paintings in the inventory of the Cologne City Museum including the Porz Collection and the Cologne High School and Foundation Fund, pp. 326–327
personal data
SURNAME Eick, Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1619
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 1686 or 1696
Place of death Cologne