Johann von Eck

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Johann von Eck (* in Trier ; † December 2, 1524 in Esslingen am Neckar ), also von der Eck , von Ecken , Eccius , Eckius , de Aci was a German lawyer and a Trier official , i.e. chairman of the Catholic Church Court .

Life

Von Eck came from the old Trier noble family von der Ecken. He graduated in 1502 Bologna was in 1505 in Siena Dr. iur. utr., d. H. both rights, doctorate and from 1506 listed as professor in the statutes of the Trier Law Faculty. According to a protocol of the faculty he was envoy of the prince-bishopric of Trier in Brabant in 1515 .

Von Eck was also a priest and is mentioned in a document as the pastor of St. Gangolf's Church . As an official he traveled to Rome in 1515 with his electoral archbishop Johann von Metzenhausen to obtain indulgences for the Trier cathedral. Subsequently, von Eck secured a considerable part of the income as commissioner .

As an official, von Eck took action against reformatory ideas in the Archdiocese of Trier. As the apostolic nuncio Aleander reported to Rome, he was "a learned, orthodox man who was extremely conscientious in carrying out the apostolic and imperial mandates, and who burned the heretical books so thoroughly in Trier that not one remained".

In 1521 his new employer, Archbishop Richard von Greiffenklau , took him to the Reichstag in Worms as an advisor , where von Eck was charged with interrogating Luther on April 17 and 18 . His name similarity often leads to confusion with the theologian and Luther's opponent Johannes Eck .

As a fluent jurist, he impressed Luther in Worms at his first interrogation. On the second day, von Eck was too much a tactician and too little religious to be able to effectively counter Luther. On April 24, von Eck visited Luther privately with Johannes Cochläus to change his mind. When this last attempt at mediation also failed, on April 25, von Eck Luther conveyed the message of Emperor Karl that he would now act against him as the guardian of the church and the faith.

Also von Eck's second important mission in April 1521, when he tried to mediate the dispute between Charles V and the French King Franz I at the imperial court in Brussels on behalf of his archbishop , was unsuccessful.

When Franz von Sickingen tried in the Pfaffenkrieg to secularize the Electorate and Archdiocese of Trier in the spirit of Luther and besieged the city in September 1522, it was von Eck who demolished the upstream imperial abbey of St. September 1522 called on the market place to resist Sickingen.

After Sickingen had failed, the St. Maximins monks filed a lawsuit against the city and archbishop at the Imperial Court of Justice in Esslingen am Neckar , where von Eck Trier and Richard von Greiffenklau represented. Here von Eck died a sudden death on December 2nd, 1524.

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SURNAME Eck, Johann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eck, Johann von der; Corners, Johann von; Eccius, Johann; Eckius, Johann; Aci, Johann de; Acie, Johann exit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1524
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar