Georg Simler

Georg Simler (* around 1477 in Wimpfen ; † 1536 in Tübingen ), as an author initially under the pseudonym Georgius Relmisius , a change in his name, was a school pedagogue in Pforzheim well-known in learned circles of his time and later a university teacher in Tübingen from 1497 to 1510 . He belonged to the circle of friends of the humanist and legal scholar Johannes Reuchlin . In 1506 he was involved in the printing of the Rudimenta Hebraica Reuchlins as a proofreader .

Simler caused a sensation with the Pforzheim first edition of his commentary on Reuchlin's satire Sergius, published in 1507 . Finally, in 1512, two years after moving to Tübingen, he achieved a great success with his Greek grammar Isagogicum sive introductorium in literas graecas, which was printed by Thomas Anshelm in Tübingen . As one of the ordinaries at the Tübingen Faculty of Law (since 1518) with the title of doctor of ecclesiastical and secular law ( utriusque iuris doctor ), he left no further scientific work.

Studies and teaching

Georg Simler studied at the artist faculties in Leipzig (1490–1493), Cologne (1493–1495) and Heidelberg (1495–1497). As a preceptor and a few years later as its rector, he developed the municipal Latin school in Pforzheim into one of the most respected schools in southern Germany from 1497 . From 1497/1498 Johannes Hiltebrant taught under him , who later also became active in Tübingen. Among the prominent students of Simler was the later Wittenberg professor Philipp Melanchthon and the later Tübingen professor colleague Johannes Kingsattler . After moving to the University of Tübingen in the summer of 1510, he immediately received his doctorate as a Leipzig bachelor's degree on July 15 of this year and has since been one of the most prominent teachers in the artist faculty, in 1515 as a conventor in the Realistenburse.

In addition, he began to study law, which also developed a close relationship with the professor of Roman law Johannes Gentner alias Adler, Aquila, Halietus. In 1516 he worked as a corrector ( orthosynthaticus ) in the printing of Gentner's (Adler's) treatise on gaming rights . He was also on friendly terms with the Tübingen astronomy professor Johannes Stöffler , for whom he wrote two epigrams as early as 1512/1513.

On November 2, 1515, he received a licentiate in religious and secular law, a teacher representative in the Tübingen law faculty for the Associate Professor in Roman law John Lupfdich until his death in 1518. After he now to 1516 utriusque juris doctor had become, he received on the 12th February 1518 as the successor of Johannes Gentner (Adler), who had also died shortly before, his full professorship in Roman law, 1522 for life together with the five other salaried professors at the Faculty of Law. During the time of the Austrian reign in Württemberg (1520–1534) he concentrated on teaching law, but was also repeatedly involved in the university's administrative business.

After Duke Ulrich's return to Württemberg, he retained his professorship, which was awarded for life . In the summer semester of 1535 he was again dean of the Faculty of Law and on October 26, 1535 he was again involved as a promoter in doctoral dissertations. Presumably after a stroke , he died in Tübingen in 1536, without having been particularly prominent in the reform of the University of Tübingen.

literature

• Karl Hartfelder :  Simler, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 350-352.
• Heinz Scheible: Melanchthon's Pforzheim school days. Studies on the humanistic educational elite , in: Pforzheim in the early modern times. Contributions to the city history of the 16th-18th centuries Century , ed. by Hans-Peter Becht (Pforzheimer Geschichtsblätter, Volume 7). Jan Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989, ISBN 3-7995-6045-9 , pp. 9-50, especially pp. 15-21.
• Hans-Jürgen Kremer: Reading, practicing, and examining . The history of the Pforzheim Latin School. Higher Education in Southwest Germany from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age (Exhibition Catalog) (Materials on City History, Volume 11). Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-49-5 , pp. 30f., 113f.
• Reinhard Pohlke: Melanchthon and his Greek teacher Georg Simler. Two mediators of Greek in Germany , in: Philipp Melanchthon in southwest Germany. Educational stations of a reformer , ed. by Stefan Rhein, Armin Schlechter and Udo Wennemuth (exhibition catalog). Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe 1997, ISBN 3-88705-044-4 , pp. 39–61, especially p. 41.
• Heinz Scheible: Melanchthon and the Upper Rhine Humanists (reprint of the 2001 edition), in: Derselbe, essays on Melanchthon (Late Middle Ages, Humanism, Reformation, Volume 49). JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150234-7 , No. 3, pp. 46-64, especially pp. 49-51.
• Karl Konrad Finke: Georg Simler (around 1476/1478 to 1536) , in: The Professors of the Tübingen Faculty of Law (1477–1535) , edited by Karl Konrad Finke (Tübingen professor catalog, volume 1,2). Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-5452-7 , pp. 298-308.
• Stefan Kötz: Monetary theory at the University of Tübingen around 1500 , in: The University of Tübingen between scholasticism and humanism , ed. by Sönke Lorenz (among others) (Tübingen building blocks for regional history, volume 20). Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7995-5520-3 , pp. 117–160, here pp. 131–135.