Heinrich von Langenstein

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Heinrich von Langenstein ( Heinrich Heinbuche , also Heinrich von Hessen the Elder ; * 1325 in Langenstein near Marburg (Hessen), † February 11, 1397 in Vienna ) was a German theologian , church politician and astronomer . He taught at the Paris Sorbonne and from 1384 at the young University of Vienna , for whose reorganization he was responsible.

Life

Heinrich von Langenstein studied in Paris in 1358. At the Sorbonne he received the chair of philosophy in 1363 and rose to become vice-chancellor . He stood in the Great Western Schism (1378-1447) on the side of Pope Urban VI. and proposed the convening of a council. Therefore he had to leave his position and finally France in 1382. In the following year Heinrich stayed for a long time in the Eberbach monastery , whose abbot Jakob von Eltville was also professor at the Sorbonne until 1372.

In 1384 he became professor of theology at the University of Vienna (founded in 1365) , but also taught astronomy . The astronomical tower was set up for observations at the then seat of the university, the Herzogskolleg . Langenstein was rector of the university in 1393/94.

A collection of astronomical tables published by Georg Tannstetter in 1514 contains as a preface a history of Viennese mathematicians and astronomers from 1384 to 1514 - see Viri Mathematici . This history of science begins with Langenstein under his Latin name Henricus de Hassia Germanus .

See also

Works

  • Contra astrologos coniunctionistas de eventibus futurorum, 1371
  • Quaestio de cometa, 1386;
  • De magnets;
  • De habitudine causarum et influxu naturae communis respectu inferiorum
  • De reductione effectuum specialium in virtutes communes
  • Epistola pacis, 1379
  • Epistola consilii pacis de unione ac reformatione Ecclesiae, 1381
  • Epistola de cathedra Petri, 1395 or 1396
  • Epistola de futuris periculis ecclesiae, 1383
  • Liber adversus Telesphori eremitae vaticinia de ultimis temporibus, 1392
  • Ecclesiae planctus de schismate. Urbani et Clementis, 1393
  • Contra disceptationes et contrarias praedicationes fratrum mendicantium super conceptione beatissimae Mariae, 1390
  • De discretione spirituum, 1382 to 1384
    • Thomas Hohmann, Heinrich von Langenstein "Differentiation of the spirits" Latin and German , Artemis, Zurich, Munich, 1977.
  • Speculum animae, 1382–84 ( digitized version of the German edition of Der Spiegel der Sele , Nuremberg 1517 )
  • De contemptu mundi, 1382 to 1384
  • MS-B-193 - Cyprianus. Novatianus. Henricus Arnoldi. Mechthild from Hackeborn. (Ps .-) Augustine. Henricus de Langenstein (theological collective manuscript). Kreuzherrenkonvent, Marienfrede [around 1490 - 1495; around 1480-1490; 1489; around 1475] digitized

literature

Single receipts

  1. ^ Renkhoff, Otto : Nassauische Biographie . Historical Commission for Nassau , Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , p. 445 .
  2. ↑ Ed. And translated in Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer : Humanism between Court and University. Georg Tannstetter (Collimitius) and his scientific environment in Vienna in the early 16th century . Vienna 1996, pp. 156–171 (on Heinrich p. 156f).

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personal data
SURNAME Heinrich von Langenstein
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinrich von Hessen the Elder; Heinrich Heinbuche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Theologian and church politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1325
PLACE OF BIRTH near Marburg
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1397
Place of death Vienna