Johannes Gremper (clergyman)

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Johannes Gremper (* around 1455 in Laufenburg ; † after 1491 ) was a German theologian and notary .

Life

Alleged birthplace of Johannes Gremper in Ettenheim

The city of Ettenheim / Baden describes one of its houses as the house where Gremp was born, referring to Karl Friedrich Vierordt . There is no evidence of this in the sources, Gremper refers to himself several times from Laufenburg. The name Gremper means dealer or Höker.

Gremper can be verified as a student at the Universities of Heidelberg and Basel between 1468 and 1472 with a degree as Magister Artium . Another mention of Johannes Gremper can be found as an imperial notary in Laufenburg on the Upper Rhine.

Witch trials

From there, according to secondary literature, called by the City Council of Waldshut , he led the trial of the Witch of Waldshut in 1479 , one of the first witch trials in Germany (at that time, Upper Austria ), which is described in the Hexenhammer . As a result, he should have recommended himself to the Dominican Heinrich Kramer , known as Heinrich Institoris, inquisitor of Upper Germany since 1478. In the witch bull Summis desiderantes affectibus of December 1484 prepared by Institoris for Innocent VIII , Gremper is named as a theologian of the Diocese of Constance , Magister, notary and assistant to the Inquisition. Contemporary sources for this information could not yet be determined.

In 1485 Gremper was given a chaplaincy in the city of Ravensburg . In 1486 he was involved in two more witch trials there as Kramer's assistant. On January 1st, 1488, Master Hanns Gremprer, pastor of Isny, sealed the seal for Pfaff Johann Buffler von Isny. In 1491 he received a benefice in Altdorf near Weingarten.

A younger Johannes Gremper

From 1501 a Johannes Gremper from Rheinfelden appeared at the University of Vienna , later secretary and friend of Johannes Cuspinian . However, he cannot be identical with the older Johannes Kremper, since in 1501 he applied for admission to the Baccalaureatic exam.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vierordt: History of the Protestant Church in Baden. Karlsruhe 1847, II, p. 118 ( online ) without receipt.
  2. ↑ Jakob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm: German Dictionary. Volume 4, Issue 1, Part 6, S. Hirzel, 1960, p. 39.
  3. ↑ a b Peter-Johannes Schuler: Notare Südwestdeutschlands: a prosopographical directory for the period from 1300 to approx. 1520. Volume 1, Kohlhammer, 1987, p. 152.
  4. ^ Heinrich Institoris: The witch hammer . (Translation: JWR Schmidt). Berlin / Leipzig 1923/1489, p. 34.
  5. ↑ a b A. Schmauder: Early witch hunt in Ravensburg and on Lake Constance. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 2001, p. 41.
  6. ↑ Regesten the documents of the hospital archive Isny (1331-1792) (1960), Nr. 690. The two seal of the instrument are obtained.
  7. ^ So the Marburg repertory on translation literature in early German humanism: Johannes Gremper .
personal data
SURNAME Gremper, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gremper, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Theologian of the Diocese of Constance
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Ettenheim
DATE OF DEATH after 1491