Konrad Heresbach

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Konrad Heresbach (also Conrad Heresbach , Latinized Conradus Heresbachius ; * August 2, 1496 at Gut Heresbach near Mettmann ; † October 14, 1576 at Gut Lohrwardt in Mehr (Rees) ) was a German humanist and classical philologist .

Life

Konrad Heresbach was born as the fifth of seven children on Gut Heresbach in the Honschaft Obmettmann bei Schöller . At the age of seven he entered the convent school in Werden , two years later switched to the Latin school in Hamm , then to the cathedral school in Münster , where he was probably taught by Johannes Murmellius . On October 20, 1512 he enrolled in Cologne , spent his Artes studies at the Bursa Montana and graduated in November 1513 with a bachelor's degree and in 1515 with a master's degree . In the context of the Burse - outside of the prescribed curriculum - Greek and Hebrew were also studied.

He then completed his law studies in Cologne and Orléans in 1520 in Cologne, where he met Erasmus von Rotterdam at the end of the year and traveled with him to Basel . He worked as a proofreader and intern for Erasmus . In Basel, Erasmus found him a job with the printer Johann Froben . But after six months, Heresbach moved to Freiburg , where he continued to study law, but also worked as a lecturer in Greek, without, however, meeting with acceptance. That is why he moved back to Basel for a short time in mid-1523. In Freiburg Heresbach was a student of Ulrich Zasius , after Erik Wolf the "ancestor and founder of German law". In 1522 he obtained his doctorate in civil law in Ferrara . In 1523 he went back to his homeland and worked at Johann Wilhelm's court in Düsseldorf until the end of his life . Guntram Fischer describes his work de educandis erudiendisque principum liberis rei publicae gubermandae as a “constitutional guideline for princely governance” , which qualifies him as the initiator of the Monheim school .

Subsequently, he contributed to the edition of four important Greek works through Latin translations:

Since around 1523, certainly since 1524, Heresbach worked as a prince tutor at the court of the Duke of Jülich-Kleve-Berg . For almost five decades he was one of the most important politicians at court alongside Johann Ghogreff , Johann von Vlatten and Johann Weyer (from 1534 also as a Privy Councilor ) and advocated tolerance in church politics . Konrad Heresbach was committed to the education system and established a study foundation that still exists today, based in Kalkar . His private library was kept for a long time in the Willibrordi Cathedral in Wesel .

He wrote more than 30 theological, philological, educational and legal works as well as one on agriculture and a compendium on hunting, birding and fishing.

In Düsseldorf he is said to have owned the Zum Goldenen Hirsch house .

Honors

Heresbach monument in Wesel

The Konrad-Heresbach-Gymnasium in Mettmann bears his name. 1996 in Wesel situated on the Grote Markt, a bronze sculpture (created by Kuno Lange) of an open book in the form on which a word from Konrad Heresbach says, "... because it is mistakes, not exterminate people." In his Death More the main street is named after him as Heresbachstraße.

Fonts

  • De laudibus Graecarum literarum oratio. Strasbourg 1551 (online)
  • De educandis erudiendisque principum liberis reipublicae gubernandae destinatis deque republica christiana administranda. Frankfurt am Main 1570 (online)
  • Rei rusticae libri quatuor. Universam rusticam disciplinam complectentes etc. , 4 books, Cologne 1570 (digital) (five further editions; new edition as a reprint of the original Latin edition with a German translation under the title Four books on agriculture. Volume 1: Vom Landbau , Meisenheim 1970)
  • together with Johannes Sturm : Psalmorum Davidicorum simplex et dilucida explicatio , Basel 1578 (posthumous)
  • Christianae iurisprudentiae epitome , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1586 (posthumous)
  • Thereutices, hoc est de venatione, aucupio atque piscatione compendium. Cologne 1570; Translated into English in 1577; Text in Latin and German: publications on humanism research. Volume 2. Boppard am Rhein 1977.
  • Diarium seu quotidianae preces hebdomadis accommodatae. Item Celeuma exhortatorium ad praeparationem Christiane moriendi. Frankfurt am Main 1592 (online)

literature

  • Hartwig Lohse:  Heresbach, Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 606 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Jutta Prieur (ed.): Humanism as reform on the Lower Rhine. Konrad Heresbach 1496–1579 (exhibition Wesel, Willibrordidom, Heresbach Chapel October 11 - November 17, 1996; Düsseldorf, Stadtmuseum February 5 - March 9, 1997) (= Heresbach Foundation's writings, volume 4 ), Bielefeld 1996, ISBN 3 -89534-194-0
  • Manfred Weise: Heresbach and the dark men. Its role in the intellectual conflicts of the early sixteenth century . In: Konrad Heresbach . Mettmann 1996, pp. [13] -30
  • Meinhard Pohl (Ed.): The Lower Rhine in the Age of Humanism. Konrad Heresbach and his circle (= writings of the Heresbach Foundation , Volume 5). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1997, ISBN 3-89534-211-4
  • Marcus Bernhardt (Ed.): Spirit & Power. Konrad Heresbach. Humanist and diplomat at the Jülich-Klevischer Hof (= guide of the Jülich 13 City History Museum ). Jülich 1999, ISBN 3-934176-02-X (exhibition catalog)
  • Martin Szameitat: Konrad Heresbach - A Lower Rhine humanist between politics and learning (= series of publications of the Association for Rhenish Church History 177). Rudolph Habelt, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-7749-3698-0

Web links

Commons : Konrad Heresbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: p. 2883.
  2. ↑ a b c Guntram Fischer : Düsseldorf and his legal academy , Triltsch, Düsseldorf 1983 ISBN 3-7998-0024-7
personal data
SURNAME Heresbach, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heresbach, Conrad; Heresbachius, Conradus (Latinized form of name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1496
PLACE OF BIRTH to Gut Herzbach near Mettmann
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1576
Place of death at the Lorward estate near Wesel