Herbord von der Marthen

Herbord von der Marthen , (* around 1480 in Erfurt , † 1529 in Mainz ), was a German Catholic lawyer and humanist.

Life

Herbord von der Marthen enrolled at the University of Erfurt in 1496 , earned a bachelor's degree in 1500 and the academic degree of a magister artium in 1504 . He then devoted himself to legal studies, acquiring a bachelor's degree in both rights in the winter semester of 1507, a licentiate in law in the summer of 1512 and a doctorate in secular and ecclesiastical law in the same year . With the acquired academic degree, he received a professorship at the university.

He succeeded the syndic of the city of Erfurt, who was executed in 1514 as a sympathizer of the Saxons . He held the office for two years. Herbord von der Marthen became rector of the university in the winter semester of 1515. In this capacity he was arrested in 1516 for high treason . By breaking the oath of clients, for whom he had campaigned in the dispute with Saxony, he was able to flee to Mainz in 1517. He entered the service of the Archbishop of Mainz, Albrecht von Brandenburg, and became Imperial Councilor to Maximilian I and Charles V.

Through his connection to the Erfurt Humanist Circle 1506-1516 around Mutianus Rufus and Eobanus Hessus , he made a literary appearance. You can see that he has a high level of education. Rufus also made sure that he succeeded Georg Spalatin as a teacher of classical languages ​​in the Cistercian monastery Georgenthal . Occasionally he is called “the model of a lawyer of the new school”, alluding to the humanistic jurisprudence that was renewed from France.

literature

• Franz Wilhelm Kampschulte , The Univ. Erfurt, 1858–60;
• K. Kause, Helius Eobanus Hessus. His life and his works. 1879;
• Mutianus Rufus's correspondence, sighted a. edited by C. Krausem, 1885;
• Erich Kleineidam : Universitas Studii Requirement, Part II: 1460–1521, 1969.