Heinrich Northoff

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Heinrich Northoff , also Nortaust (* around 1474 in Lübeck ; † after 1503) was a German cleric and Rotanotary.

Life

Heinrich Northoff came from a Lübeck merchant family. He was a son of the Lübeck businessman Johann Northoff, who died in 1497; the merchant and humanist Christian Northoff was his younger brother. The exact dates of Heinrich's life are not known. Together with the Lübeck merchant's son Bernhard Schinkel , Heinrich enrolled on May 21, 1492 to study at the University of Rostock , where both received their bachelor's degrees in the summer semester of 1493 .

In 1496 he studied canon law together with Schinkel at the University of Leuven and from autumn / winter at the University of Paris , where he and his brother Christian were taught by Erasmus of Rotterdam as a doctoral student and privately by Augustinus Vincentius Caminadus . He obtained his master's degree from the university. The brother Christian Northoff is apparently identical to the Christianus in the Familiarum colloquiorum formulae . These conversations in the familiar circle of families , a handbook of educated conversation, served in their original form specifically to educate the Northoff brothers. The Lübeck humanist and patron Adolf Greverade , who teaches at the University of Leuven, was the addressee of a letter from Erasmus von Rotterdam dated December 18, 1497 or 1498. In the letter Erasmus praised Adolf Greverade not personally, but through Heinrich Northoff, who lived with him had heard of him, Adolf because of his special closeness to the church father Hieronymus and invited him to work on an edition of the works of Hieronymus.

In 1500 Christian traveled to Rome with his brother Heinrich, who had been appointed as a notary at the Rota Romana in 1496 or 1498 , where they lived in the Collegio Teutonico di Santa Maria dell'Anima . Heinrich Northoff is documented as a Rotanotary until 1503. As a member of the Anima since 1500, he was its provisional officer in 1501/1502 .

He was the owner of two vicarages at the Marienkirche in Lübeck . The Lübeck councilor Konrad Wibbeking was his brother-in-law.

literature

  • Hermann Hoberg : The record books of the Rotanotare from 1464 to 1517 in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History 70, Canonical Department 39 [1953], pp. 175–227 (p. 213)
  • Peter G. Bietenholz: Erasmus students and friends in Lübeck and Montpellier in: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 75 (1984), pp. 78–92, ISSN  2198-0489 (online), ISSN  0003-9381 (print), doi : 10.14315 / arg-1984-jg04
  • Peter G. Bietenholz: Christian Northoff. In: Contemporaries of Erasmus. A biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Volume 2. University of Toronto press, Toronto, Buffalo, London 1986, ISBN 0-8020-2575-7 , pp.
  • Christiane Schuchard: The Rota-Notare from the dioceses of the German-speaking area 1471–1527 - A biographical directory in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries , Volume 93, Issue 1, pp. 104–210 (p. 154)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Bernhard Schinkel in the Rostock matriculation portal . He was the son of the Lübeck merchant and patron Arnt (Arnold) Schinkel.
  2. ↑ Entry 1492 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Entry 1493 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ^ Enrollment in Leuven on July 6, 1496
  5. ^ Peter G. Bietenholz: Christian Northoff. In: Contemporaries of Erasmus. A biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Volume 2. University of Toronto press, Toronto, Buffalo, London 1986, p. 20
  6. ↑ Ep 141, see Bietenholz (Lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Northoff, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nortaust, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cleric and Rotanotary
DATE OF BIRTH around 1474
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH after 1503