Johann Altenstaig

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Johann Altenstaig (born around 1480 in Mindelheim ; died after 1524 there ) was a German humanist and theologian .

Life

Altenstaig studied poetics and rhetoric with Heinrich Bebel at the University of Tübingen from 1497 . In 1498 he became a Baccalaureus and on January 11, 1502 Magister artium . His theology teacher was probably Wendelin Steinbach . On Jan. 21, 1507 he also became a Baccalaureus biblicus , but broke off further studies in 1509 and became a teacher of Latin, rhetoric, dialectics and theology at the Augustinian Canons in Polling . On September 29, 1511 he was ordained a priest . From 1512 until his death he was the chaplainSebastian Brotherhood in Mindelheim, also held the mass of the St. Sebastian Altar at the parish church and was also a teacher at the Latin School of the Augustinian Hermits .

These activities left him ample time for scientific interests and participation in the life of scholarship. Altenstaig was friends with many humanists and theologians, including in particular the friends from his student days in Tübingen, Johannes Brassicanus , Johannes Boemus , Jakob Heinrichmann and, above all, Johannes Eck , also a student of Bebel, whom he admired. Altenstaig was an opponent of the Reformation, but his commentary on Bebel's critical clergy Triumphus Veneris of 1515 shows that he shared his critical view of the church. Already in his time in Tübingen he had created the Vocabularius vocum (1508), an explanation of the vocabulary of the grammars of Brassicanus and Heinrichmann. This collection, which could also be used as an independent lexicon thanks to a register supplemented in 1514, saw numerous editions in the following years. Another lexicographical work, the theological glossary of terms Vocabularium theologie , appeared in 1517. His Opus pro conficiundis epistolis from 1512 is a humanistic doctrine of letters and style in which he opposes the rules of the late medieval letter rules and their corrupt Latinity, the Dialectica from 1514 is a Textbook of logic in the nominalistic tradition.

Altenstaig has repeatedly emphasized that original research is not his goal, rather he has quite consciously concentrated on the compilation and organization of existing knowledge, which also included providing teaching aids such as the two lexicons he wrote.

Altenstaig died after 1524. The last evidence of his activity is a pamphlet against gluttony from 1524 and a letter from Nikolaus Ellenbog dated March 4, 1524.

Works

  • Vocabularius vocum. Hagenau 1508 u. ö.
  • Opus pro conficiundis epistolis. Hagenau 1512
  • Dialectica. Hagenau 1514
  • Triumphus Veneris Henrici Bebelii poetae laureati, cum commentario Joannis A. Mindelhaimensis. Strasbourg 1515
  • Isocrates Von dem Reich, Geteutscht (translation from de regno ad Nicoclem regem des Isokrates ). Augsburg 1517
  • Vocabularius theologiae. Hagenau 1517
  • Opusculum de amicitia. Haguenau 1519
  • De felicitate triplici. Haguenau 1519
  • Teaching what a Christian should do or not do, Augsburg 1523
  • From the Füllerey. Strasbourg 1525.

literature

  • J. Klaus Kipf: Altenstaig, Johannes. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, p. 107 f.
  • Jan Noble Pendergrass: Humanism and theology in Johannes Altenstaig's "Opus conficiundis epistolis" (1512). In: Eckhard Keßler and Heinrich C. Kuhn (eds.) Germania latina - latinitas teutonica: Politics, science, humanistic culture from the late Middle Ages to our time. 2003, Vol. 1, pp. 273-285.
  • Victor Stegemann:  Altenstaig, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 215 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Anton von Steichele :  Altensteig, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 363.
  • Franz Josef Worstbrock : Altenstaig, Johannes. In: German Humanism 1480-1520. Author's lexicon. Edited by Franz Josef Worstbrock. De Gruyter, Berlin & New York 2005, Vol. 1, pp. 36-46.
  • Friedrich Zoepfl : Johannes Altenstaig: A learned life from the time of humanism and the Reformation. Aschendorff, Münster i. W. 1918.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation July 27, 1497 as pauper .
  2. ^ Register by Oswald Molitor. Issued by Adam Petri, Basel 1514.
  3. ↑ Andreas Bigelmair , Friedrich Zöpfl: Nicholas Ellenbog. Correspondence (= Corpus Catholicorum 19/21). Aschendorff, Münster 1938.
personal data
SURNAME Altenstaig, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Altenstaig, Johannes; Altensteig, Johann; Altensteig, Johannes; Joannes Mindelheimensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH Mindelheim
DATE OF DEATH after 1524
Place of death Mindelheim