Hartmann Maurus

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Hartmann Maurus , also Hartmann Mor , Hartmann Mohr or Hartmann Moer (* before 1506; † 23 August 1537 ) was a German lawyer . He was a professor of civil law at the University of Cologne , councilor to the Cologne Elector Hermann V. von Wied and an assessor of the Reich Chamber Court .

Talking coat of arms of Hartmann Maurus: Mohrenkopf

Life

Maurus came from Linn near Krefeld on the Lower Rhine . He was matriculated at the University of Cologne in 1506, he was baccalarius artium in 1512, licentiate in 1514 , and in 1521 he was a doctor of civil law and canon law .

Hartmann Maurus is the author of the oldest electoral and coronation diary of a Roman-German emperor , which was printed in Nuremberg in 1523 . In it he describes himself as the youngest law professor.

In 1520 he was in the service of the Archbishop of Cologne, Hermann von Wied. That year he became a member of the Cologne delegation together with Florentinus of Ysselstein to Aachen sent to the coronation of Emperor Charles V prepare. Perhaps at this time he first made the acquaintance of Erasmus von Rotterdam , with whom he later maintained contact. When the Reich Chamber Court reopened in 1521, he became its assessor, representing Kurköln, which position he held until his death. Until 1523 he stayed mostly in Cologne, after which he followed the Reich Chamber of Commerce, whose seat was in Nuremberg until 1524 and in Eßlingen from 1524–1527 . After all, he was at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer , in whichever city he may have died. He was buried in the local St. Guido Abbey . Maurus had attracted attention in the religious trials with a stringent stance, according to which he advocated the consequent punishment of church property when it was expropriated and rejected any political compromises. On September 1, 1537, Johannes Gropper reported to the Chancellor of the Electorate of Cologne on the death of Hartmann Maurus and submitted proposals for the appointment of the office of Electoral Cologne assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice , including Jakob Omphal , who finally succeeded Maurus in office.

Works

Involved in (selection):

  • Coronatio Invictissimi Caroli Hispaniarum Regis Catholici in Romanorum Regem , Nuremberg 1523
  • Coronatio Caroli V. Caesaris Avg. Apvd Aqvisgranvm: Per Hartmannum Maurum Hermanni Archiepiscopi colonies. Consiliarium, qui ei coronationi interfuit, descripta. Sabinus Electionem et consilia , Cologne 1550
  • Roman eagle. Or Theatrvm Electionis Et Coronationis Romano-Caesareae: With those high standing people who are interested. Represented in two parts. In the first: Von der Wahl vnd Crönung , Frankfurt a. M. 1657
  • Coronatio Caroli V. Caesaris Aug. Apud Aquisgranum: Sabinus Electionem et consilia hic rei gestae in coronatione ac pompae celebritatem continet , Cologne 1550

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon , Volume 4, Bremen 1813, p. 1056
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Peter G. Bietenholz, Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation , Volume 1, Toronto 1985, Reprint 1995, pp. 445 f.
  3. ^ A b Winfried Dotzauer, Die deutscher Reichskreise (1383-1806): Geschichte und Aktenedition , Stuttgart 1998, p. 615
  4. ↑ Ingmar Ahl, Humanist Politics between Reformation and Counter-Reformation , Stuttgart 2004, p. 132
  5. ^ German Digital Library, Works by Hartmann Maurus (accessed October 16, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Maurus, Hartmann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mor, Hartmann; Mohr, Hartmann; Moer, Hartmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1506
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1537