Georg Hartsesser

Epitaph of the monastery dean Georg Hartsesser in the donor chapel of the Stuttgart collegiate church . Relief of St. George as a knight, probably made before 1518

Georg Hartsesser (* around 1445/1448 in Waiblingen ; † late February / early March 1518 in Stuttgart ; also Harzesser ), doctor of canon law ( doctor decretorum ), was a German lawyer and cleric, university professor in Freiburg im Breisgau and Tübingen, Württemberg council as well as canon and first dean at the Heilig-Kreuz-Stift in Stuttgart. The Martinianum scholarship he donated is one of the few examples of study funding over 500 years.

Life

Georg Hartsesser's family background is so far in the dark. He named his place of origin Waiblingen himself when he enrolled in the register of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau at the beginning of the 1461 summer semester on April 11th after attending a Latin school, possibly in Schorndorf . After obtaining his master's degree at the Freiburg Artistic Faculty on December 28, 1465, he was one of the teachers at this faculty until he moved to the newly founded University in Tübingen . Here he had himself registered for the first semester of 1477/1478 in the matriculations of the university and artist faculty and immediately became a member of the faculty council of the artists. He also studied law , because when he was elected rector of the university for the summer semester of 1482, he was referred to as a doctor of canon law. Since the university had to be relocated to several locations due to a plague epidemic , his rectorate was extended for the following winter semester.

After the death of the provost chancellor of the University of Johannes Tegen on September 30, 1482, the doctor decretorum Johannes Vergenhans alias Nauclerus , the first rector of the University of Tübingen, was elected as his successor and had to give up his previous teaching post at the law faculty. Thus, Hartsesser, now the highest-ranking teacher of canon law at this faculty, succeeded him as professor for canon law. Hardly two years later, in 1484, Hartsesser decided to go to church and switched from university to a canonical at the most important Wuerttemberg monastery at the time, the Heilig-Kreuz-Stift in Stuttgart, of which he became the first dean in 1490. This Dean's office, an office established for disciplinary and pastoral tasks in the monastery, he held until his death in late February or early March 1518. His unknown date of death can be derived from the traditional burial date, March 5, 1518. His red marble grave slab still preserved in the collegiate church in Stuttgart shows him in a relief in the lower right corner.

He set himself a special monument with the Martinianum ( Collegium Sanctorum Georgii et Martini ) scholarship ( Collegium Sanctorum Georgii et Martini ) established in 1509 together with the Tübingen theologian Martin Plantsch (approx. 1460–1533) for poor students and approved by the University of Tübingen in 1516 , which is still changed today consists.

literature

• Gudrun Emberger: Ain forever scholarship. The Collegium Sanctorum Georgii et Martini - A Tübingen Study Foundation of the 16th Century (Berlin Medieval and Early Modern Research, Volume 16). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89971-998-7 , pp. 41–54.
• Karl Konrad Finke: Georg Hartsesser (around 1448 to 1518) . In: Karl Konrad Finke (editor): The professors of the Tübingen Faculty of Law (1477-1535) (Tübingen professor catalog , volume 1,2). Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-5452-7 , pp. 135-142.
• Oliver Auge: Stift biographies. The clerics of the Stuttgart Heilig-Kreuz-Stifts (1250-1552) (Writings on Southwest German Regional Studies, Volume 38). DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2002, ISBN 3-87181-438-5 , pp. 357-361, no. 142.