Hans Haunold

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Johann "Hans" Haunold (* around 1445 ; † March 21, 1506 in Breslau ) was a Silesian wholesaler, councilor of Breslau and governor of the Bohemian hereditary principality of Breslau .

Life

Haunold was a son of the Breslau wholesaler, councilor and landowner Valentin Haunold (1413 / 14-1465), ancestor of the Breslau Haunold family, and his second wife Agnes Tolbogen († after 1481). In addition, he was a representative of the Breslau resistance against the Bohemian King George of Podebrady .

Haunold studied at the University of Krakow in 1457 and received his doctorate in 1460 as a baccalaureus . He later continued his father's wholesale business. He also managed his estates Strachwitz and goldsmiths as well as the village of Pirscham , all near Breslau, Weigwitz near Ohlau , Saara and half of the property Leuthen , near Neumarkt and other real estate. He was a member of a Wroclaw mining union and had a mining privilege for the north Moravian Zuckmantel , and he was involved in mining in Kaltenstein near Friedberg in Hungary .

Haunold was councilor in Breslau from 1475 until his death, from 1491 he was elected seven times with interruptions to council president and as such appointed governor of the hereditary principality of Breslau . He headed an anti-clerical party within the Breslau Council and was a friend of the emerging humanism in Germany . Within the Wroclaw Humanist Circle, the desire arose to establish a university in Wroclaw in competition with the University of Cracow . Haunold became the spokesman for this idea, supported by the town clerk Georg Morenberg. Haunold experienced the signing of the official foundation letter (July 20, 1505) by King Vladislav II of Bohemia , but due to his imminent death (1506) and the resulting renewed resistance from the church and from the Polish king Alexander , the realization was delayed.

Prince Bishop John IV. Roth , although his partner on the way to the university foundation, Haunold was probably because of his fierce opposition to the church and probably because of his strong character, a "tyrant" called. Joachim Cureus described Haunold in his Silesian chronicle as "an excellent, sensible and intelligent man who had done very well for his fatherland and all of Silesia and was a true father of the fatherland" .

Haunold married Hedwig Ungeraten (* around 1455/60) in 1478, the daughter of the landowner Matthias Ungeraten († after 1478) and the Katharina porter from Hell. The couple had two sons and a daughter.

literature

  • Oskar Pusch : The Breslau city councilors. Volume 2, In: Johannes Hoffmann (Hrsg.): Publications of the Research Center East Central Europe at the University of Dortmund. Series B, Volume 35, Dortmund 1987, ISBN 3-923293-20-8 , pp. 105f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association for the History of Silesia, Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture : Scriptores rerum Silesiacarum. Collection of Silesian historians. Verlag J. Max & Comp., Breslau 1847, p. 33.
  2. ^ Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel: History of the Prussian State. Verlag F. Perthes, 1830, p. 265.
  3. ^ Carsten Rabe: The way to the first Silesian university. In: Reports and Research. Yearbook of the Federal Institute for East German Culture and History. Volume 4, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1996, ISBN 3-486-56254-1 , p. 89, footnote 21.
  4. ^ Joachim Cureus : Silesian General Chronica. Part 2, Leipzig 1585, p. 33.
personal data
SURNAME Haunold, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haunold, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Silesian wholesaler, councilor of Wroclaw and governor of the Bohemian Hereditary Duchy of Wroclaw
DATE OF BIRTH around 1445
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1506
Place of death Breslau , Principality of Breslau