Johann Moninger

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Johann Moninger († 1584 in Kulmbach ) was a German poet , historian , doctor , pharmacist and archivist of the secret archive on the Plassenburg in Kulmbach.

Life

Dr. med. Johann Moninger - occasionally also written Monninger - was the son of the Kastner von Gunzenhausen , Hans Moninger, and brother of the rector of the high school in Ansbach Magister Martin Moninger. He came to Bayreuth from Wittenberg in 1559 as a city doctor. Because of low income, he received a benefice at the Gumbertuss pin in Ansbach. Later, after the reconstruction of Kulmbach after the Second Margrave War, he worked as a doctor and pharmacist in the royal seat on the White Main . He is mentioned in 1564 as a resident of a house that belongs to a certain Sebastian Schneyer in today's Bauergasse No. 5 on the southern city wall in Kulmbach. In the town register of the city of Kulmbach he appears in 1572 and 1577 as a doctor of medicine . He died before April 16, 1584.

archivist

In 1579 he received permission from Margrave Georg Friedrich of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach to use the archive for studies and genealogical research on the Hohenzollern family. As early as 1567, separate rooms had been built in the west wing of the fortress' new stronghold for the valuable archive holdings.

From 1581 the margrave employed him as an archivist in the secret archive on the Plassenburg . His remuneration for the reorganization of the stocks amounted to 100 Rhenish guilders and 2 Simra grain. To improve clarity and to make it easier to find individual archival items, Moninger organized the entire archive "incredibly diligently" according to a letter-number signature system, which his successors retained until the late 18th century. The repertory for the newly arranged archive alone comprised about 1200 pages in the fair copy. This so-called Moninger Index is an important historical source in the Bamberg State Archives due to the summaries of documents lost today .

The archive holdings served him as sources and basis for his history of the Hohenzollern family, on which he probably worked until his death.

Works

  • Genealogia of the famous Chur and Princely House of Marggraffen in Brandenburg and Burggraffen in Nuremberg of the age-old Counts Zolleric tribe. First described with diligence by Mr. D. Johann Monningern, Medicum zu Culmbach . Handed down in various manuscripts. Abridged copy of the version extended by Wenzel Gurckfelder and Georg Keck by Christian Meyer in: Hohenzollerische Forschungen 3 (1894) ( online ).

literature

  • Otto Clemen : Johann Moninger, poet, historian, doctor, pharmacist and archivist . In: Journal for Bavarian Church History 13 (1938), pp. 215-223 Internet Archive .
  • Otto-Karl Tröger: The archives in Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth. Their organizational structure and their involvement in administration and research . Dissertation Regensburg. Selb-Oberweißbach 1988 ISBN 3-927313-00-9 , pp. 46-52, 456

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Schornbaum in: Contributions to Bavarian Church History 21 (1915), p. 253 ( online ).
  2. ^ Karl Schornbaum in: Contributions to Bavarian Church History 24 (1918), p. 218 ( online ).
  3. ^ Tröger, p. 49.
  4. ↑ Tröger, p. 47 f.
  5. ↑ Tröger, p. 48.
  6. ^ Tröger, p. 49.
  7. ↑ Tröger, p. 456. For the tradition, see, for example, on the Berlin State Library, Ms. boruss. fol. 1252: New acquisitions, PDF .
  8. ↑ https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/101498 .
personal data
SURNAME Moninger, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monninger, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, historian, doctor, pharmacist and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1584
Place of death Kulmbach