Johannes Canter

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Johannes Canter (* 1424 in Groningen ; † 1497 ) was a humanist , astronomer and lawyer . He was a student of Johann Wessel , court astrologist of the German Emperor Friedrich III. and a friend of the poet Rudolf Agricola .

Life

Brugstraat 26 in Groningen, where the family lived from the 1470s

Canter came from a patrician family in Groningen. His father Ghelmer Canter (around 1393 until after 1446) was a brewer and assessor at the court there. He enrolled on October 14, 1440 at the Artistic Faculty of the University of Cologne , where he became a Baccalaureus on November 2, 1442 . He then studied in Turin , Ferrara (there Magister artium on November 28, 1444) and Leuven , finally graduated as Doctor iuris utriusque and settled as a lawyer in his native Groningen. Around 1489 he is proven as a lawyer and citizen in Groningen, where in 1487 he created a forecast for the humanist Conrad Celtis . From the 1470s the family lived in the house at Brugstraat 26, the previous owner of which was the mayor Rudolf Huinghe. Hence the name Canterhuis for the property.

He taught his sons and daughters himself and attached great importance to their thorough humanistic education, even the house maid is said to have spoken Latin. His wife Abele is also said to have been learned. Johannes, Andreas and Petrus von Agrippa von Nettesheim are gratefully mentioned by the sons in his preface to his comments on Ramon Lull , especially Andreas is called by Nettesheim his teacher in the "art of the arts" of Lullus. Jacobus Canter , born in Groningen in 1471 , appeared as a humanist poet. There were also the daughters Ursula, who was considered a " wonder of the world" ( wonder der wereld ) because of her understanding , and Ghebbe, the nun in Yesse Monastery in Haren .

Fonts

  • Prognosticum with dedication preface by the author to Emperor Friedrich III. Friedrich Creussner, Nuremberg 1487. (digitized version ) .
  • Prognosticum with a dedication letter from the author to Cardinal Marcus Barbus, Patriarch of Aquileia. Rome 1489. (digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NDB
  2. ↑ Rudolph Agricola. Letters. Ed. U. translated by Adrie van der Laan and Fokke Akkerman. Assen 2002, p. 5.
  3. ↑ http://www.genealogieonline.nl/de/stlösungen-helmantel/I18025.php
  4. ↑ http://www.historici.nl/retroboeken/vdaa/aa__001biog04_01.xml/123
  5. ↑ http://www.historici.nl/retroboeken/nnbw/1/287
personal data
SURNAME Canter, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kanter, Johannes; Cantor, Johannes Ghilmari; Canter, Johannes; Canter, Johannes Gelmari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Humanist and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH 1424
PLACE OF BIRTH Groningen
DATE OF DEATH 1497