Henning Lotze

Henning Lotze , called the Younger , also Lötz or Lötze († after 1539), was a German legal scholar and Roman Catholic clergyman. Together with his father Wedego Lotze , he became known nationwide through the conflict with Ulrich von Hutten .

Life

Henning Lotze came from a patrician family in Greifswald. He was the son of Greifswald merchant and mayor Wedego Lotze and grandson of Henning Lotze the elder. He was matriculated at the University of Greifswald in 1492 and master's degree in 1496 . 1504 he was the faculty of law for ordinary doctor both rights doctorate and Domherr the Nikolaikirche in Greifswald. Between 1504 and 1515 he was rector of Greifswald University five times. In 1508 he received the dignity of an official of the Bishop of Cammin and in 1511 he was appointed a preposition at the cathedral church. After the introduction of the Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania , he left Greifswald and was archdeacon of Tribsees and Parchim , which belonged to the Diocese of Schwerin , between 1536 and 1539 .

Conflict with Ulrich von Hutten

Henning Lotze had taken the poor student Ulrich von Hutten into his house in the winter semester 1509/1510 and supported him financially. Hutten apparently soon felt compelled to leave Greifswald again. The contrasts between the humanistic poet Hutten and the scholastic academic Henning Lotze and his father as a conservative patrician may have led to a cooling of the relationship. Since Hutten owed both of them money, they refused to let him go. According to his own statements, he was able to get the two of them to leave for Rostock towards the end of December . However, the Lotze sent officials after him who enforced their lien and Hutten took away all of his belongings, including clothing, even though it was a severe winter at the time. Hutten managed to get through to Rostock anyway. Since his chances of success in legal ways were slim because of the Lotze's social and economic position of power, he took literary action against the Lotze. In the two books "Querelae in Wedegum Loetz et filium eius Henning" and "Querelae in Lossios", Hutten processed the dispute from his point of view and portrayed his adversaries as devious, cruel and violent.

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald

literature

• Theodor Pyl :  Lotze, Wedego . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 290 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arnold Becker: Ulrichs von Hutten Querelae in Lossios: Humanistic culture of conflict between invective and elegy. In: Uwe Baumann, Arnold Becker, Astrid Steiner-Weber (eds.): Culture of dispute. Occidental Traditions of Arguing in Literature, History and Art. (= Super alta perennis. Studies on the effects of classical antiquity 2. ) V&R unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-465-4 , p. 111f ( Google books ).
2. ^ Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten : History of the University of Greifswald, with documented enclosures. Part 1, CA Koch, Greifswald 1857, pp. 165–166 ( Google books ).