Jakob Ulfsson

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Jakob Ulfsson

Jakob Ulfsson (* in the 1430s in der Harde (Swedish: härad ) Trögd; † spring 1521 in Mariefred ) was Catholic Archbishop of Uppsala and Sweden and co-founder of Uppsala University .

Life

Ulfsson began his studies in 1457 at the University of Rostock , where he obtained his Baccalaureus in 1458/59 . The following year, he gained in Paris the Magister -degree.

Ulfsson lived in Rome from 1465 to 1470 . During this time he was appointed canon of Uppsala (1465) and archdeacon of Växjö (1468). When Archbishop Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna died in 1468, Sweden's King Karl Knutsson Bonde wanted to make his relative Tord Pedersson Bonde Archbishop of Uppsala. The cathedral chapter of Uppsala also elected Pedersson Bonde to this office, but Pope Paul II refused his consent and on December 18, 1469 appointed Jakob Ulfsson archbishop. On April 15, 1470 Ulfsson was ordained in Rome and then returned to Sweden to take up his office. In 1471 he defended Stockholm during the Danish-Swedish War .

Jakob Ulfsson was a driving force behind the founding of Uppsala University in 1477, as he was interested in science and the arts in addition to church affairs. He also became the first chancellor of the university and was responsible for the introduction of printing in Sweden in the 1480s.

As Archbishop of Uppsala, Jakob Ulfsson was also influential and important on a political level. He had a leading position in the Swedish Imperial Council . After the war against Russia (1495–1497), Ulfsson campaigned for the imperial administrator Sten Sture the Elder to lose his office and John I to become King of Sweden.

In 1514 Jakob Ulfsson resigned as archbishop. Gustav Trolle was elected as his successor in May of the following year . When Reich Administrator Sten Sture the Younger deposed Archbishop Trolle in the course of a political conflict, he tried to win Jakob Ulfsson back into office. But Ulfsson refused, especially since Pope Sixtus IV. Sten Sture d. J. had banned Gustav Trolles from being deposed. In the further dispute over supremacy in Sweden between the Danish King Christian II and Sten Sture the Elder. J. In the spring of 1520, guerrillas of the now slain imperial administrator burned down Arnö Castle, where Jakob Ulfsson lived, and took the former archbishop prisoner. After Ulfsson was free again, he moved into the Carthusian monastery in Mariefred, where he died in 1521.

See also

literature

  • Gunvor Grenholm (Red.): Den svenska historien. Volume 2: Medeltid 1319-1520 . Stockholm 1966, p. 309
  • Jakob Ulfsson . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 12 : Hyperemi-Johan . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1910, Sp. 1199-1200 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • Alf Åberg: Vår svenska historia. Lund 1978, pp. 141-149.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal , SS 1457, No. 79
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal , dean's book, WS 1458/59, Phil. Fac., No. 16
personal data
SURNAME Ulfsson, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic Archbishop of Uppsala and co-founder of Uppsala University
DATE OF BIRTH between 1430 and 1439
PLACE OF BIRTH Harde Trögd
DATE OF DEATH 1521
Place of death Mariefred