Johann Lüneburg († 1493)

Johann Lüneburg (* around 1460 in Lübeck ; † September 20, 1493 there ) was a Lübeck patrician, carnival poet and religious art lover of the 15th century.

Life

Johann Lüneburg was one of the sons of Lübeck councilor Johann Lüneburg († 1474) ; his grandfather Johann Lüneburg was one of the most important Lübeck mayors of the 15th century. He began studying at the University of Rostock at Easter 1478 . Johann Lüneburg, as a citizen of Lübeck from a council seated family at Trinity, became a member of the influential patrician circle society in Lübeck in 1479 ; the annals of the circle society list him to differentiate himself from his father of the same name in Middle Low German as "Hans Luneborch the young".

At the Lübeck Carnival Games held by the Circle Society in 1484, he and his brother Heinrich Lüneburg, who died in the same year, stood out as one of the four carnival poets appointed each year. The other two carnival poets in 1484 were Hans Witick and the later councilor Hinrich Westval . The piece van derrechtverdicheyt , composed by the four carnival poets, was performed . It was printed in a modified form between 1497 and 1500 in the Lübeck Mohnkopfoffizin of Hans van Ghetelen as an incunabula with the title Henselynboek and is thus the only carnival game from Lübeck that has survived in writing and is now recorded in the holdings of the Hamburg State and University Library .

Page section of the book of hours from 1492

He is also in question as the client and first owner of the book of hours named after him by Hans Luneborch , a manuscript of a prayer book richly illustrated with 41 miniatures from 1492, which is now in the library of the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore .

Johann Lüneburg was buried in the family funeral of his grandfather Johann Lüneburg in the lower choir of the Katharinenkirche . The brass grave slab is a Flemish work and is one of the outstanding and worth seeing pieces of its kind in Lübeck. The inscriptions on the grave slab and the inscriptions in the stone also list the other members of the Lüneburg family buried here, including his father and brothers Thomas († 1498) and Heinrich († 1484).

His son was the Lübeck long-distance trader and councilor Johann Lüneburg († 1529) .

literature

• Ernst Deecke : Historical news of the Lübeck patriciate , in: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Volume 10 (1845), pp. 50-96 (digitized version )
• Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from older times , Lübeck 1859, p. 56ff. (Digitized version)
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. No. 549 (father); No. 615 (son). Lübeck 1925, ISBN 3-7950-0500-0
• Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100–1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, pp. 822–824 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X
• Wolfgang Achnitz (Hrsg.): German Literature Lexicon. The middle age. Authors and works by topic and genre. Volume 4: Poetry (Minnesang - Sangspruch - Meistergesang) and Drama , KG Saur, Berlin, column 1306 ISBN 978-3-598-24993-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal .
2. ↑ Ernst Deecke (1845), p. 95.
3. ↑ C. Walther: On the Lübeker Fastnachtspiele in: Verein für Niederdeutsche Sprachforschung Volume 27, Wachholtz, Neumünster 1901, p. 1 ff. (P. 4)
4. ↑ Henselyn in the complete catalog of the cradle prints (GW number HENSELY)
5. ↑ Hans Luneborch's book of hours in the manuscript census .
6. ↑ Bret McCabe: Return to Lender in: Johns Hopkins Magazine , March 1, 2012
7. ↑ Complete text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen: Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 176 ff. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6