Heinrich Stercker

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Heinrich Stercker (von Mellerstadt) (also: Henricus Stercker) (* around 1430 in Mellrichstadt ; † March 3, 1483 in Meißen ) was a German humanist , diplomat and learned councilor from the Electorate of Saxony who was instrumental in establishing a modern territorial administration in the Electorate of Saxony .

Life

Stercker enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1454 , where he became the center of a circle of humanists such as Servatius Göswein, Peter Luder and Hartmann Schedel . In Leipzig in 1458 he met the papal legate and indulgence dealer Marinus de Fregeno , who introduced Stercker to the humanistic writings of Enea Silvio Piccolomini .

After 1462, Stercker continued his studies in canon law at the University of Perugia and then obtained his doctorate as a lawyer in Leipzig.

Stercker first entered the service of the bishops of Meißen before he was appointed to the electoral council of Elector Ernst and Duke Albrecht of Saxony in 1469 . In 1470 he accompanied Duke Albrecht to Austria.

In 1474/75 he reported on the siege of Neuss by Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy. In 1476 he traveled to the imperial court and then to Rome and then joined Duke Albrecht's pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

In 1480, Stercker accompanied Elector Ernst to Rome, where he successfully negotiated the care of Elector Ernst's sons with high ecclesiastical offices.

Stercker was supplied with canonicals at the cathedral churches of Meißen, Merseburg, Naumburg and Freiberg by his sovereigns . It was probably included in the Meissen chapter before 1478. After the death of Paul von Mündel, he was given the post of scholaster here in 1481 . He was involved in founding the Collegiate Foundation in Freiberg . When the previous Freiberg city church St. Marien was converted into a collegiate church in 1480, Stercker received one of the seven new canons.

Stercker acted temporarily as an assessor in the chamber court of Emperor Friedrich III. at the time this institution was leased to Archbishop of Mainz, Adolf von Nassau-Idstein.

Stercker died in Meißen at the age of 50 and was buried in the central nave of Meißen Cathedral . His grave slab made of sandstone with his portrait on a bronze insert plate, which was probably made in the older Vischer workshop in Nuremberg , is still preserved.

A Latin epitaph on Stercker has come down to us from Hartmann Schedel in his anthologies kept in Munich:

"Epitaphium Doctoris Heinrici Mellerstat consiliarii ducum Saxonie.

Mellerstat me genuit, Lipczk doctas contulit artes,

Jus dedit et leges urbs Perusina [Perugia] mihi.

Me febris absumpsit Heinricum agnomine Stercker,

Misna tegit corpus, spiritus astra petat.

Anno domini MccccLxxxIII die Jovis mensis Marcii sexta Obiit

Egregius vir doctor Heinricus Stercker de Mellerstat, Scolasticus

ecclesie Misnensis necnon eiusdem ecclesie et Mersburgensis

Neuburgensis et Friburgensis canonicus. Cuius anima in sancta

pace requiescat. "

Works

  • Carmen on the fire in Erfurt in 1472

literature

  • Schwarz, Jörg: The Saxon council and early humanist Heinrich Stercker from Mellrichstadt (approx. 1430–1483). A biographical sketch . In: Enno Bünz and Franz Fuchs (eds.): Humanism at the University of Leipzig. Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 181-193.
  • Wunderle, Elisabeth: Heinrich Stercker's mourning strategy in the Gotha manuscript chart. A 239 . In: Pirckheimer-Jahrbuch für Renaissance- u. Humanismusforschung 23 (2009), 2008, pp. 195-200.
  • Wattenbach, Wilhelm: Peter Luder, the first humanistic teacher in Heidelberg, Erfurt, Leipzig, Basel . In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 22 (1869), pp. 33–127, on Stercker pp. 64ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wattenbach, Wilhelm: Peter Luder, the first humanistic teacher in Heidelberg, Erfurt, Leipzig, Basel . In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 22 (1869), pp. 33–127, on Stercker and the Leipziger Kreis, pp. 64ff.
  2. ↑ Donath, Matthias: The grave monuments in the cathedral to Meißen (= sources and materials on Saxon history and folklore). Leipzig 2004, here cat.-no. 122.
  3. ↑ BSB Clm 443 fol. 134v. Wattenbach 1869, p. 85.

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personal data
SURNAME Stercker, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stercker von Mellerstadt, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist and councilor from Electoral Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH around 1430
PLACE OF BIRTH Mellrichstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1483
Place of death Meissen