Hermann Dwerg

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Hermann Dwerg (* before 1380 in Herford ; † December 14, 1430 in Rome ) was papal protonotary .

Life

Dwerg came from a humble background. He studied first in Herford, then in Paris , where he became wealthy through fraud against merchants. He secretly left France and went to Bologna , where he obtained the degree of Doctor of Law .

He then went to Rome, where he entered the papal service as a clergyman and obtained various offices and dignities. Dwerg rose to become the confidante and protonotary of Pope Martin V , an extremely respected and influential office.

Dwerg died in Rome in 1430 and was buried in Santa Maria Maggiore . Anselm Fabri from Breda († 1449) donated a chapel in the German church Santa Maria dell'Anima and in it also remembered the patron of the Anima Hermann Dwerg, the Anselm or Dwerg chapel. Dwerg's epitaph from 1478 and the memorial plaque to Dwerg from 1433 donated by Anselm Fabri are no longer in the chapel, but the text on the plaque has survived. Afterwards Dwerg was also provost of the Xanten cathedral and the Lebuinus church in Deventer .

The Dwerg Foundation

In his will, Dwerg determined that his considerable fortune should be divided up. Legacies went to Deventer , Cologne and Herford, for example , so that these cities would allow a poor girl to marry every year ; the church of St. Johann and Dionys zu Herford, in which Dwerg's parents were buried, also received shares in the inheritance.

But the bulk of his fortune was Dwerg into a foundation incorporated, from the students - scholarships should be funded. He decided to set up a college near the Fraterhaus in his hometown of Herford , where the scholarship holders first had to complete a four-year basic grammar course. Afterwards they could begin the five-year main course at the University of Cologne , where a college of the foundation also had to be set up. The foundation regulations stipulated that the scholarship holders should receive clothing, food and accommodation at the study locations where they had to attend classes every day, and that they were under the supervision of a rector . Dwerg donated 4,000 Rhenish guilders to the Herford college , the Cologne college (the Kronenburse An der Rechtschule ) was financed with 6,000 Rhenish guilders.

Dwerg also stipulated that there should always be twelve scholarship holders, two each from Cologne, Herford, Lübeck , Deventer, Breslau and Liège ; these were cities in which Dwerg held benefices .

The Dwerg Foundation lasted for over five centuries. It was only dissolved by the Herford City Council in 1950, as there was no more capital due to inflation in the 20th century and the currency reform of 1948 .

literature

  • Guido Görres (ed.): Hermann Dwerg from Westphalia , in: Historisch-Politisch Blätter for Catholic Germany. Volume 25, year 1850, pp. 803-807.
  • Hermann Keussen : The Cologne Law School and the Kronenburse. The Dwerg and Vorburg foundations . in: Yearbook of the Cologne History Association, Vol. 14, 1932, pp. 54–91
  • Klaus Wriedt : School and University. Educational conditions in northern German cities of the late Middle Ages. Brill Academic Publishers 2005, ISBN 9004140530 .
  • Rainer Pape: Sancta Herfordia: History of Herford from the beginnings to the present . Busse, 1979. ISBN 9783871208577
  • Paul Berbee:  Dwerg, Hermann. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 42:  Dugoni – Enza. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1993.
  • Tobias Daniels:  Dwerg, Hermann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 32, Bautz, Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88309-615-5 , Sp. 263-274.
  • Tobias Daniels: purchase of offices in the Cologne diocese feud 1414/15. A commentary on the activity of the curial Hermann Dwerg in the text "Concilia how to hold the sol" from the year 1442. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 76 (2012), pp. 284–297.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Insschriften.net DIO 3: Santa Maria dell'Anima, Rome (2012), No. 7 † Santa Maria dell'Anima, Anselmkapelle ; The reports of the General Procurators of the Teutonic Order to the Curia: (1433 - 1436) , Volume 2, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1976, p. 489
personal data
SURNAME Dwerg, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dwerg, Herman; Dwerg, Herrmann; Dwerg, Hermanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman and papal protonotary
DATE OF BIRTH before 1380
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1430
Place of death Rome