Georg Jobst

Leonhard Georg Jobst (born December 21, 1552 in Greding ; † July 6, 1620 in Regensburg ) was a German priest .

He is said to be the son of a poor schoolteacher who probably died in 1553. He received his first name in memory of his maternal grandfather. His mother married a Mr. Kaufl. from 1564 he was admitted to the Collegium Willibaldinum . From 1571 he earned a master's degree in philosophy in Ingolstadt . Count Heinrich Rudolf von Pappenheim was the preceptor to finance his living . He drove with her to Regensburg on November 2, 1575, for the coronation ceremony of Emperor Rudolf II. In 1580, he and his protégé set out for France, where he died in Besançon of an insidious disease. Then he went to France again with Ferdinand von Rechberg, Heinrich von Heßler and Adam von Nothaft. On June 12, 1585 he was promoted to Dr. utr. iuris is doing his doctorate . The document was signed by Jakob Cuiacius and Johann Mercerius . After his return to Bavaria, Haßlang and Nothaft set off for Italy. In 1589 he attended the duke's heyday in Florence. He then went to Rome for a long time and was appointed there in 1591 with a letter from the Bavarian Duke Wilhelm V to be educator or preceptor of his son Prince Albrecht . For this he received an instruction issued on April 13, 1591 by the Duke in which the basic lines of education were laid down for him. Wolf Konrad von Rechberg zum Hohen Rechberg presided over the prince's court seat. Jobst followed in second place with a remuneration of 150 guilders . From 1592 to 1600 he was Bavarian Councilor and from 1594 Hofmeister to Duke Albrecht. In 1593, Albrecht went to Ingolstadt with his brothers to study and on October 15th he signed the university's register. In 1597 the duke returned to Munich and entered the Jesuit high school on December 1st. In 1593 he was appointed canon in Regensburg Cathedral and in 1598 in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Passau . At Candlemas 1601 he asked for dismissal as a prince tutor and for dismissal money, which was not granted. In 1603 he was appointed a visitor to Passau . According to his records, he was not ordained a priest, but only a subdeacon . In 1619, however, he noted in two letters to that he would have liked to become a “priest” with a parish. In Passau he was closer to the Bavarian party in the cathedral chapter than to the Austrian. In old age he was plagued by stone ailments and other diseases. He died in 1620 and was buried in the All Saints Chapel in Regensburg Cathedral.

On December 12, 1614 he made his will. His hometown Greding donated 1250 guilders to enable his descendants of the Jobst or Kheuffel families and, in the absence of these, the poor sons of the city to study. This capital was devalued by the inflation after the First World War . Georg-Jobst-Gasse in the old town of Gredingen is named after him.

literature

• Ernst Baumgartl: History of the city of Greding . tape 2 . Greding 1990, p. 108, 109 .
• Ernst Baumgartl: History of the city of Greding . tape 3 . Greding 1990, p. 137-150 .
• Joseph Kaspar Bundschuh: Geographical, Statistical-Topogaphical Lexicon of Franconia . tape VI . Ulm 1804.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Schmidt: History of the education of the Bavarian Wittelsbacher . Berlin 1892, p. 58 .