Gerhard Kikpot from Kalkar

Gerhard Kikpot von Kalkar or Gerhard von Kalkar († before March 15, 1394 in Rome ) was a German theology professor and was one of the first professors of the Universitas Studii Coloniensis founded in 1388 by the city of Cologne . From April 1390 he became the fourth rector of the university for three months.

Gerhard, who probably came from Kalkar , had studied at the Sorbonne in Paris , where he obtained the magister artium in 1362 and the Baccalaureus Theologiae in 1378. In 1368 and still in 1381 he was announced as rain at the artist faculty . But he was also canon at the St. Aposteln Abbey in Cologne from 1371 . Most recently he had completed his higher studies in Paris with a doctorate in theology, before he went to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1385 because of the dispute at the university about the occidental schism . There he was under Duke Albrecht III. one of three doctors of theology in the Duke's newly founded Collegium ducale , in which seven magistri artium lived and taught at the beginning.

Since April 9, 1388 he is attested in Cologne, where he then worked as one of the founding professors. It can be assumed that he came to Cologne because the city was the largest and richest city in the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation and was also close to Kalkar. On January 6, 1389, Epiphany , the feast day of Cologne's patron saint , he opened the teaching with the professor of canon law and founding rector Hartlevus de Marca with a disputation on Isaiah 60.1 ("the glory of the Lord rose upon you radiantly"). The disputation was held in the style of the Sorbonne disputations, as Hartlevus had also taught there.

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Erik Wagner: Universitätsstift und Kollegium in Prag, Wien and Heidelberg , Berlin, Akad. Verlag 1999 (Diss. Humboldt-Univ.), P. 114 et ubique Google Books with search Gerhard von Kalkar (accessed Jan. 2011) and Hermann Keussen : Register of the University of Cologne - 7 volumes (Cologne 1892), ND continuation Düsseldorf 1979/81 (here vol. 1, p. 3ff)

personal data
SURNAME	Gerhard Kikpot from Kalkar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gerhard von Kalkar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian and first Cologne professor of the late Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH	14th Century
DATE OF DEATH	before March 15, 1394
Place of death	Rome

[1] Wolfgang Erik Wagner: Universitätsstift und Kollegium in Prag, Wien and Heidelberg , Berlin, Akad. Verlag 1999 (Diss. Humboldt-Univ.), P. 114 et ubique Google Books with search Gerhard von Kalkar (accessed Jan. 2011) and Hermann Keussen : Register of the University of Cologne - 7 volumes (Cologne 1892), ND continuation Düsseldorf 1979/81 (here vol. 1, p. 3ff)