Jodocus Trutfetter

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Jodocus Trutfetter (also: Jodocus von Eisenach, Jodocus Isenacensis, Justus Trautvetter, Doktor Eisenach; * around 1460 in Eisenach ; † May 9, 1519 in Erfurt ) was a German Catholic theologian, logician, rhetorician and philosopher.

Life

Nothing is known about Trutfetter's Eisenach parents. One can assume that, as Plitt writes, she brought up her son with all due (medieval) piety. As soon as his age allowed, they sent him to the neighboring University of Erfurt. At an age that can almost still be described as boyhood, Trutfetter matriculated on October 18, 1476, the day of St. Luke, with 167 other students under the rectorate of Konrad Schechteler von Alsfeld at the Universitas studii Erffordensis . From that time on Trutfetter stayed in Erfurt for a period of thirty years, so that, as his modern biographer Plitt writes, he grew into this city.

Still under the old scholasticism, the first university teachers from Prague brought the modern terministic logic with them to Erfurt, which, through the struggle against the Hussites, stood in a front position against the universal realism, which they adopted from John Wyclif. In rejecting realism, no particular scholastic was preferred. Only after the emergence of schooling after 1450 did the Erfurt University turn to via moderna, “until finally Jodocus Trufetter [...] and Bartholomäus Arnoldi from Usingen [...] committed themselves to the ockhamistic doctrine of universals in 1497 and followed appropriate textbooks "(Junghans 1982, 141).

At the University of Erfurt, Trutfetter acquired the first academic degree of a baccalaureus in the liberal arts as a student of Johannes Buridanus in 1478 . In 1484 he received his master's degree and took over a professorship in logic at the philosophy faculty . In addition, he dealt with scholastic theology, obtained a licentiate in theology in 1493 , was ordained a priest in the same year, took over a pastor's office at St. Andrew's Church until 1501 and received his doctorate in theology on October 14, 1504 . After becoming dean of the philosophical faculty in the winter semesters of 1493 and 1499 , he also dealt with law from April 29, 1501 and was dean of the law faculty in the winter semester of the same year. Before that, however, he had worked as rector in the 1501 summer semester.

Since he was passed over for political reasons when he was appointed to a chair in Erfurt, he turned his attention to the University of Wittenberg, which was newly established in 1502 . On December 9, 1506, he took up a position as archdeacon at the Wittenberg Castle Church , received a theological professorship in the following year and was the rector's office of the Wittenberg University in the 1507 winter semester . Trutfetter was a brilliant representative of via moderna , who was open to humanism and, for example, was on friendly terms with the humanist Christoph von Scheurl in Wittenberg. After the political situation in Erfurt had improved in 1510, he returned there. In Erfurt Trutfetter got a position as archdeacon at the Erfurt Cathedral in 1510 and thus automatically held a theological professorship at the university.

Trutfetter, who, like Bartholomäus Arnoldi , dealt with the basic questions of Wilhelm von Ockham , had already worked for a new way of thinking about the scholasticism of the Middle Ages through his skill as an excellent rhetorician and astute dialectician at the Quodlibet disputation of 1497 at the Erfurt University . Out of the urge to grasp the world with human reason, he undoubtedly also formed the early forms of Erfurt humanism, to which, as a late scholastic, he was open to. His former Erfurt and Wittenberg pupil Martin Luther took up this approach and formed it into a new movement that Trutfetter rejected.

Fonts

  • Summa de dialectica insignis [before 1500]
  • Veterifartis [compiled from Veteris artis]
  • Analyticorum, Topicorum et Elenchorum Aristotelis Succinctum et breviculum Interpretamentum
  • Explanatio [Explicatio] in nonnulla Petri Burdegalensis
  • Compendiaria et admodum brevis pervulorum logicorum explanatio, non sine dubitationum in his intercurrentium quo exercitium. [Erfurt approx. 1501] [1]
  • Breviarium dialecticum. [2]
  • Summula totius logicae
  • Epitome seu breviarium dialectiae, hoc est disputatrices scientiae iterum iam recusum. Erphordia 1512. [3]
  • Summa in tota [m] physicen, hoc est philosophiam naturalem conformiter siquidem ver [a] e sophi [a] e: que est theologia. Erffordie 1514. [4]
  • Summa philosophiae naturalis contracta. Erphordia 1517. [5]
  • Totius Philosophiae naturalis Compendium
  • Epistolae et orationes complures

literature

  • Jakob Franck :  Jodocus von Eisenach (1. Art.) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 111 f.
  • O. Liebmann:  Jodocus von Eisenach (2nd Art.) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 691.
  • Immanuel Gottlieb Moser: Luther's teacher in Erfurt, Dr. Theol. Justus (Jodocus *) Trautvetter from Eisenach, usually called Jodocus Isenacensis, and his writings. In: Serapeum. Journal for library studies, manuscript studies and older literature. Edited by Robert Neumann. Volume 1. Number 24. Verlag Theodor Oswald Weigel. Leipzig 1840. pp. 369-375.
  • Robert Naumann: Addendum to Num. 24 of the previous year. In: Serapeum. Journal for library studies, manuscript studies and older literature. Edited by Robert Neumann. Volume 2. Number 5. Verlag Theodor Oswald Weigel. Leipzig 1841. pp. 79-80.
  • Gustav Plitt: Jodokus Trutfetter von Eisenach [,] the teacher Luther in his work [,] described by Dr. Gustav Plitt, full professor of theology. Verlag A. [ndreas] Deichert. Erlangen 1876. 2, 60 pages.
  • Josef Pilvousek: Jodocus Trutfetter (1460-1519). Nominalist of the "Erfurt model" - Luther's teacher - Inquisitor. In: Science as a Profession. The Erfurt site. Special exhibition of the University and Research Library Erfurt / Gotha on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the [re] establishment of the University of Erfurt, May 3 to June 5, 2004. Erfurt 2004. II, 64 pages. Pp. 7-12.
  • Josef Pilvousek: Jodocus Trutfetter (1460-1519) and Erfurt nominalism . In: Dietmar von der Pfordten (ed.): Great thinkers of Erfurt and the University of Erfurt . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2002. ISBN 3-89244-510-9 . Pp. 96-117.

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personal data
SURNAME Trutfetter, Jodocus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jodocus von Eisenach; Doctor Eisenach; Jodocus Isenacensis; Justus Trautvetter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian (Catholic), logician, rhetorician and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH around 1460
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1519
Place of death Erfurt