Johannes Cologne

Johannes Kölner ( or Johann Coelner ) (* around 1448 in Fankel ; † July 29, 1490 in Cologne ) was a German canonist , Dominican and dean at the University of Cologne .

Life

Johannes was a son of Matthias Coelner and his wife, who - so it is assumed - was a sister of his later patron and gross pastor Johann Graß. He had at least two other brothers who were born shortly before or shortly after 1450. Matthias Coelner de Vanckel (1450–1506) later became Dominican prior in Basel , Colmar , Strasbourg and Trier as well as Regens in Heidelberg . Peter, the second brother, has only given us his membership in the Order of St. John . The three brothers received their first Christian education from their uncle , Pastor Graß, and were taught by him in Latin. Johannes, who had already attracted attention in his early years due to his talent and erudition, enrolled at the University of Cologne on May 3, 1466 to devote himself to the study of canon law .

He went through his academic training in quick succession and obtained his master's degree in fine arts as early as 1469 , whereupon he joined the Montanum high school and the Montanerburse. In 1472 he received his first bachelor's degree in civil law, in 1474 his second followed in canon law, and in 1476 he acquired the licenses required to hold lectures for canon law and in 1479 for civil law. In 1478 it appeared for the first time in the Dominican Order Register in Cologne. In the same year he began to give lectures at the university , reading the new canon law , the so-called younger canon law collections of the "Liber Sixtus" and the "Clementines". In 1479, after completing his doctorate, he received both a doctorate in canon law and in civil law, since then has taught as a full professor and on September 3, 1482, he was first dean of the law faculty in Cologne.

Kölner soon gained a high reputation at the university and was particularly distinguished by his knowledge in the field of canon law. His first book, a summary on the clementines , in which he summarized the individual decretals and explained them in more detail using legal collections and legal propositions, he published in Cologne as early as 1484. His second work Liber Sixtus , which was again distinguished by its high level of expertise, followed in 1485 and soon found further distribution through reprints in 1488 and 1493. The editors designated Cologne, whose commentaries were highly valued in France and reprinted in Lyon in 1578 Paris as Coloniensi iuris utriusque monarcha , in German as the “sole ruler of the study of both rights”. In 1486, Kölner was one of the first to write his work Notata super usibus feudorum on German soil in the Holy Roman Empire , in which he described feudal law under the aspect of secular legal issues .

After his death in 1490, there was an inheritance dispute over the not incapable inheritance of Johann Kölner, who had remained without a physical heir and who had just found the opportunity to draw up his will. Adam Meyer , the abbot of Cologne's Benedictine Abbey Groß St. Martin , and the priest Jakob Wilkin from Mayen were appointed as executors of his wills . In the will, the law faculty with a monetary claim for 114 Rhenish guilders and the St. Martin Abbey were considered, with which, however, neither his father Matthias Coelner († 1492) nor his brothers Peter and Matthias agreed. Since the matter had recently caused such a stir that Rome had become aware of it, the Archbishop of Trier Johann II von Baden was appointed as arbitrator - in agreement with all parties involved . Finally, the representatives of the university, the family of the testators, the administrators of the estate and the executors met almost two years after the death of Cologne on March 21, 1492 in Cologne in the Trankgasse in the house of Canon Count Bernhard von Solms and negotiated their differences of opinion ( errors ) .

When a five-point arbitration award was finally agreed, the will, which was to be executed by June 24, 1492, and the entire estate were divided among the heirs with previous repayment of debts and without any deduction. The father Matthias Coelner was deducted 110 Rhenish guilders from his legate in order to repay the debts of the costs incurred by the legal dispute and the executor of the wills , of which the university received 70 guilders and the Abbey of St. Martin received 40 guilders.

Publications

literature

Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Coelner, Johannes , In: Personality of the Circle Cochem-Zell, Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 78.
Heinrich Schmitz: Two Dominican Fathers from Fankel , In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1989, pp. 135-136.
Lauxen: The churches of Bruttig-Fankel , In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1992, p. 131.
Heinz Schmitt: Professor Johann Coelner von Fankel, His will caused an inheritance dispute five centuries ago , In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 2010, pp. 130-132.
Johann Friedrich von Schulte: Vanckel, Johann Koelner de . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 475 f.

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Kölner, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Coelner, Johannes; Kölner de Vanckel, Johannes; Cologne de Wanckom, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German canonist, Dominican and dean
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1425
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bruttig-Fankel
DATE OF DEATH	July 29, 1490
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Coelner de Vanckel, Matthias / 1450-1506 in the RPPD

[2] Summarium textuale et Conclusiones super Clementinas, Kölner, Johannes, Cologne with Johann Koehlhoff 1484

[3] Summarium textuale et conclusiones super Sextum, Kölner, Johannes 1485

[4] Notata super usibus feudorum, Kölner, Johannes 1486