Heinrich Gundelfingen
Heinrich von Gundelfingen (* probably between 1440 and 1445 in or near Konstanz ; † shortly before April 26, 1490 in Waldkirch ) was an early humanist and professor of rhetoric.
Heinrich was the son of Niklaus von Gundelfingen , the mentor of Felix Hemmerli and Provost zu Beromünster , where he became a canon himself in 1480 . His grandfather was the abbot of the St. Gallen monastery Heinrich von Gundelfingen (1411–1418, resigned). He studied in Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1471/1472 he became the first owner of the lectures for poetry and rhetoric (ars oratoria) in Freiburg . From 1486 he lived in the Waldkirch collegiate monastery .
Heinrich wrote a number of works, almost exclusively in Latin, including an Austrian chronicle as well as the chronicle handed down in Latin and German, Das Herkommen der Schwyzer und Oberhasler .
According to unsecured sources, Heinrich Gundelfingen visited the hermit Niklaus von Flüe (brother Klaus) in Ranft in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland in the winter of 1480/81 . He then began the elaborate work of a manuscript, which contains an office and a history about the hermits, which he gave to the city of Lucerne. In the foreword of the Historia Nicolai , Henricus Gundelfingen dated: Waldkirch Idus Augusti 1488 . The biography contains a sketch of a wheel made with a pair of compasses and a pencil. The center of four concentric circles is not shown, but is present as a needle prick (hole, crater). In Latin, the same words are used for “ray of light” and “wheel spoke”: “radius” or “radiolus”. This wheel sketch is a schematic simplification of a cloth painted with tempera paint that Brother Klaus owned and which is known today as the " Sachsler Meditation Picture ".
literature
- Albert Bruckner : Gundelfingen (Gundelfinger), Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 313 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Dieter Mertens in: Author's Lexicon . Volume 3. 2nd edition. 1981, col. 306-310.
Web links
- Gregor Egloff: Gundelfingen, Heinrich von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Gundelfingen, Heinrich von in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Henricus Gundelfingen: Officium and history about Niklaus von Flüe
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guy P. Marchal : 'The Coming of the Schwyzer and Oberhasler'. In: Burghart Wachinger et al. (Hrsg.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, ISBN 3-11-022248-5 , Volume 3: Gert van der Schüren - Hildegard von Bingen. Berlin / New York 1981, Col. 1048 f.
- ↑ Text comparisons and wheel sketches for the meditation picture of Brother Klaus
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gundelfingen, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gundelfingen, Heinrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | early German humanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1440 and 1445 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: constancy |
| DATE OF DEATH | before April 26, 1490 |
| Place of death | Waldkirch |