Johannes Böhm (humanist)

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Title page of the "Mores" Lyon 1541

Johannes Böhm - also Boehm, Boemus, Bohemus, Bohemus Aubanus (* around 1485 in Aub ; † June 9, 1534 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber ) was a German humanist .

As a priestly brother at the German Order Commander Ulm he wrote his main ethnographic work Omnium gentium mores, leges et ritus from 1517 to 1520 , which identifies him as one of the first humanistic ethnographers (first printing: Augsburg 1520 - VD 16 : B 6316). The work, which describes the peoples of Africa, Asia and Europe and also the German tribes in three books, was extremely successful, it saw many other editions and translations. The sections about Germany were mainly used by Sebastian Franck in his Weltbuch and by Sebastian Münster in his cosmography.

As one of the first scholars, Böhm dealt with the early medieval German people's rights (Leges), from which he gave excerpts in the section on Bavaria.

In 1515 Böhm had already published a volume of Latin poems, Liber heroicus , which also contains a poem in praise of the city of Ulm. The Tübingen humanist Heinrich Bebel contributed a poem .

Böhm was friends with the Ulm humanist and doctor Wolfgang Rychard and the antiquity researcher Andreas Althamer , as can be seen from their correspondence.

In 1522 he moved to the German Order in Kapfenburg .

Most recently, it is occupied in Rothenburg ob der Tauber .

In the ADB , Böhm is confused with a Hebrew from Ulm of the same name.

literature

  • Erich Schmidt: German Folklore in the Age of Humanism and the Reformation , Berlin 1904
  • Max Huber:  Boemus, Joannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 403 ( digitized version ).
  • Helmut Binder: Descriptio Sueviae . In: Journal for Württemberg State History . Volume 45, 1986, pp. 179-196
  • Ulrich Gaier u. a. (Ed.): Schwabenspiegel. Literature from the Neckar to Lake Constance 1000-1800 . OEW, Ulm 2003, ISBN 3-937184-00-7 , Volume 1: p. 402, Volume 2: p. 54f.
  • Hartmut Kugler, in: Author's Lexicon: German Humanism (best summary of the scattered research, but not complete itself)

Web links

Works

Ballenstedt published letters to Althamer in 1740 (proof of digitization in the article by Andreas Althamer ).

Secondary

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich L. Schmidt: When did Johannes Böhm die? . In: Ulm and Oberschwaben 35 (1958), pp. 169-173.
  2. ^ Carl Ruland:  Boemus, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 30. See the error in 1971 in a monograph in Google Book Search
personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boehm, Johannes; Boemus, Johannes; Bohemus, Johannes; Bohemus Aubanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1485
PLACE OF BIRTH Aub
DATE OF DEATH around 1533 or around 1535
Place of death uncertain: Rothenburg ob der Tauber