Hartlevus de Marca

Hartlevus de Marca (* around 1360 in Lüdenscheid ; † 1390 in Cologne ) was the first rector of the Medieval Universitas Studii Coloniensis , the first university in Cologne .

Little is known about the cleric . He chose his name affix after he was born in County Mark . Since he is mentioned as the canon of the St. Patrokli monastery in Soest , he must have been a member of the Cologne cathedral chapter as a Cologne cleric . After studying liberal arts and canon law at the Charles University in Prague to 1383 and higher studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Vienna , which he shares with the Master of Arts graduated in 1385, he was there rain a student burse to 1387, then moved to the same position the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, founded a year earlier, and then came to Cologne with a number of teachers and students, probably because of the plague in Heidelberg. Here, too, he probably took on the role of rain for a Studium Generale in a burse of the mendicant orders .

For Cologne was on May 21, 1388 as the fourth university in the Holy Roman Empire of Pope Urban VI. in Perugia the founding deed was signed. Hartlevus acted as the founding rector. On January 6, 1389, the lectures began with his disputation with the theology professor Gerhard Kikpot von Kalkar on Isaiah 60.1 (“the glory of the Lord rose shining on you”). Apparently he died the following year.

Works

• Quaestiones trium librorum De anima , manuscript, commentary on Aristotle : De anima
• Quaestiones quattour librorum Topicorum Commentary on Aristotle Topika

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kulturamt der Stadt Lüdenscheid (1950): "Book of the Bergstadt Lüdenscheid", p. 213
2. ↑ undated after Alcuin-DB of the Univ. regensburg
3. ↑ Alcuin database of scholasticism (University of Regensburg)
4. ↑ for both works: via Alcuin database Regensburg: Hartlevus: Werke