Hans Tucher

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Hans Tucher

Hans Tucher (VI.) D. Ä. (* April 10, 1428 ; † February 24, 1491 ) was head of the Tucher trading house .

Life

Portrait of Ursula Tucher geb. Harsdörffer , by Michael Wolgemut , 1478

With his first wife, Barbara Ebner (died 1476), he had nine children. He concluded his second marriage in 1481 with Ursula Harsdörffer (d. 1504).

In the city he was valued above all as a member of the council (since 1438 the Tucher had two permanent seats in the small council), which as a builder took care of larger construction projects and, due to his great interest in books, the city library with the doubling of the inventory, modernization and preparation of the pieces rendered important services. In addition to this commitment, he was mainly concerned with domestic political affairs in the imperial city . In 1478 he became the junior mayor of Nuremberg and from 1480 to 1491 annually senior mayor. His reputation rose even more when he received the knighthood from Duke Balthasar von Mecklenburg on his pilgrimage . When he finally died of dropsy on February 24, 1491, Hartmann Schedel's obituary referred to him as a consul Nuremburgensis accuratissimus for a reason . Likewise, a depiction of the death of Mary in the Peringsdorfer altar, on which Tucher is depicted as an apostle, speaks for his degree of fame and popularity, which he certainly owed to his work in his hometown, but also to his pilgrimage and the pilgrimage report that resulted from it.

The Tucher family

Hans Tucher came from a very respected patrician family from Nuremberg . The Tucher were among the most distinguished and oldest representatives of the royal imperial city , gained their wealth through international long-distance trade that lasted over three and a half centuries, owned considerable property inside and outside the city, and directed the fortunes of Nuremberg by, among other things, a. Members of the Small Council were and were not least characterized by a willingness to write that can hardly be underestimated. They documented the administration of their honorary posts and the historical events of Nuremberg, kept records of their income and expenses and of various urban building projects. The 15th century records, however, can be considered the most significant. Hans Tucher gave an account of inner-city affairs and also wrote a pilgrimage report. This was received intensively by later pilgrims in southern Germany - including Peter Füssli from Zurich , who left a handwritten copy of it. His brother Endres Tucher (1423–1507), a well-known master builder and chronicler, also had a comprehensive account of municipal construction, the famous master builder's book, written in 1461, which can probably be described as unique.

literature

  • Eberhard Pascher (Ed.): The travel book of Hans Tucher , Armarium, Klagenfurt 1978.
  • Volker Alberti: ... and were made knights. The patrician Hans Tucher on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land , Lauf adPegnitz 1999.
  • Robert Henri Bautier (Ed.): Lexicon of the Middle Ages , 12 Vols., Vol. 6/7, Munich 1993/95.
  • The chronicles of the German cities from the 14th to the 16th century. The Chronicles of the Franconian Cities , Vol. 11, Nuremberg , Vol. 5, Göttingen 1961
  • Grote, Ludwig: The cloths. Portrait of a patrician family , Munich 1961.
  • Hartmut Heller: Nuremberg pilgrims to Jerusalem in Cairo. Remarks on historical foreign traffic and urban geography in the travel reports of Hans Tucher (1479) and Christoph Fürer (1565) , in: Rasso Ruppert, Karl-Ludwig Storck (ed.), Festschrift for Wigand Ritter on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Nuremberg economic and socio-geographic works 46, Nuremberg 1993, pp. 210–223.
  • Randall Herz:  Hans Tucher. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 12, Bautz, Herzberg 1997, ISBN 3-88309-068-9 , Sp. 672-678.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Randall Herz: The “Journey into the Promised Land” by Hans Tucher the Elder (1479–1480). Investigations into the tradition and critical edition of a late medieval travelogue. Knowledge literature in the Middle Ages 38. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-89500-254-2 .
  • Dietrich Huschenbett: Tucher, Hans, in: Walter Killys Literaturlexikon. Authors and works in the German language 11 (1991), p. 243f.
  • Werner Paravicini: European Travel Reports of the Late Middle Ages: An Analytical Bibliography. Part 1, German travel reports, edit. v. Christian Halm, Frankfurt a. M. 1994.
  • Titus Tobler : Bibliographia geographica Palestine: Critical overview of printed and unprinted descriptions of journeys to the Holy Land , Leipzig 1867.
  • Ernst Mummenhoff:  Tucher, Hans . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 765-767.

Web links

Commons : Familie Tucher  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Barbara Schmid: Peter Füssli . In: Wilhelm Kühlmann, Jan-Dirk Müller, Michael Schilling, Johann Anselm Steiger u. Friedrich Vollhardt (Ed.): Early modern times in Germany 1520–1620. Literary scholarly author's lexicon . tape 1 , no. 2 . Walter De Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-025486-0 , ISSN  1865-9373 , p. 502-508 .
personal data
SURNAME Tucher, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, head of the Tucher trading house
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1428
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1491