Johann Wolff (bailiff)

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Portrait 1597
Watercolor from Cod. Cam. fol. 3 of the WLB Stuttgart : Johann Wolff's translation by Jacques du Fouilloux : La vénerie ( From the hunt )

Johann Wolff , also Wolf , (born August 10, 1537 in Bergzabern ; † May 23, 1600 in Mundelsheim ) was a German lawyer , diplomat , translator , historian and theologian .

Life

Johann Wolff was the son of Bergzabern bailiff and mayor Wolfgang Wolff (approx. 1500–1590) and Katharina Heygelin (1505–1595).

From 1552 he attended high school in Strasbourg and in 1557 began studying theology and philosophy at the University of Wittenberg . In 1560 he moved to the University of Tübingen and studied there until 1564. He then began to study law at the University of Bourges and continued this study at the University of Angers and finally at the University of Dôle , where he received his doctorate in 1568.

After graduating, he worked as a trainee lawyer at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer until he was appointed to Meisenheim as a councilor by Duke Wolfgang von Pfalz-Zweibrücken . At the beginning of 1569, Duke Wolfgang entrusted him with his first diplomatic mission, a trip to Caterina de 'Medici , and after Wolfgang's death, Wolff continued to be employed as a diplomat by his successor, Johann I.

In 1573 Wolff switched to the service of Margrave Karl II of Baden-Durlach , probably due to his marriage to the daughter of the Baden Chancellor . As early as 1574 he became bailiff of the Mundelsheim rulership and held this office until the office was sold to the Duchy of Württemberg (1595). During this time he also devoted himself to his translation and journalistic activities. Wolff published several chronicles improved by him for the Frankfurt printer André Wechel , including the Chronica (1575) and Metropolis (1576) by Albert Krantz and the Compendium de origine et gestis francorum by Robert Gaguin (1577). He later translated several French works into German, including La vénerie by Jacques du Fouilloux ( From the hunt ) in 1578/79 and La chasse du loup by Jean de Clamorgan ( wolf hunt ) in 1580 , both of which have survived as illuminated manuscripts and in 1590 by Bernhard Jobin were printed in one volume, as well as a New Falcknerey book in 1584 (only as handwriting).

At the end of his life he turned back to theology and wrote a voluminous opus of more than 2000 pages, which was named Johan in the year of his death . Wolfii JC. Lectionum Memorabilium et Reconditarum was published.

Wolff had married Maria Magdalena Achtsynit in 1572, the only daughter of the Baden Chancellor Martin Achtsynit (Amelius) (1526–1592). She died in 1581. In 1582 he married Christina von Bühel for the second time, and after she died in 1591, the third marriage in 1592 was the Heilbronn widow Barbara Schaiblin, née Rollwag (≈1570-1635), who survived him. From his first marriage he had a daughter Susanne, from his second marriage a daughter and from his third marriage three daughters and two sons, including the later mayor of Heilbronn Johann Wolff .

Works

literature

  • Gregor Rollwagen: Panegyricus, De vita et obitu Johannis Wolfii IC. De Tabernis Montanis […]. Tübingen 1601 online .
  • Daniel Groh: Licentiate Johannes Wolff. Zweibrücken 1926 (long typewritten version: Dissertation Frankfurt am Main 1925).
  • Wolfgang Irtenkauf : Johann Wolff, bailiff at Mundelsheim . In: Ludwigsburg history sheets. 27, pp. 89-116 (1975).
  • Wolfgang Irtenkauf: Johann Wolf. In: Life pictures from Swabia and Franconia. 13, pp. 73-83 (1977).
  • Niefernburg Castle. Pforzheim 1988, ISBN 3-87269-890-7 , pp. 76-87.
  • Sabine Schmolinsky : Prophetia in the library: The Lectiones memorabiles of Johannes Wolff. In: Klaus Bergdolt and Walther Ludwig (eds.): Future predictions in the Renaissance. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05289-9 , pp. 89-130.
  • Sabine Schmolinsky: In the face of the end times? Positions in the Lectiones memorabiles by Johannes Wolff (1600). In: Wolfram Brandes, Felicitas Schmieder (eds.): End times: Eschatology in the monotheistic world religions. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-018621-5 , pp. 369-417.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regnorvm Aquilonarvm Chronica . Frankfurt am Main 1575.
  2. ↑ Alberti Krantzii, Rervm Germanicarvm Historici clarissimi, Ecclesiastica Historia, Sive Metropolis . Frankfurt am Main 1576 ( digitized ).
  3. ↑ Roberto Gagvini Rervm Gallicarvm Annales, Cvm Hvberti Vellei Svpplemento . Frankfurt am Main 1577 ( digitized ).
  4. ↑ New Jaegerbuch . Strasbourg 1590.
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, diplomat, translator, historian and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1537
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergzabern
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1600
Place of death Mundelsheim