Johannes Kingsattler

Grave of Agnes Stöfflerin († 1530), wife of Johannes Kingsattler called King, in the Tübingen collegiate church of St. Georg

Johannes Kingsattler , also known as König , Königsattler or King (born January 30, 1486 in Oettingen ; † July 21, 1534 in Tübingen ), was initially a teacher at the artist faculty in Tübingen, since 1518 law professor at the law faculty and several times rector of the University of Tübingen .

Life

Kingsattler, son of a saddler , entered the Latin school of the Oettinger Teutonic Lords in 1496 . After changing schools several times (including Schwäbisch Hall , Heidelberg , Pforzheim ), he was matriculated in Freiburg in 1505 . There he passed the baccalaureate exam in 1506. He then became a teacher at the school of Allerheiligen Monastery (Black Forest) . In 1509 he came to the University of Tübingen, founded in 1477, where he received his master's degree in the same year. He then studied there for two years at the theological faculty and found acceptance as a private teacher for distinguished retirees in the home of the Tübingen theology professor Jakob Lemp (* 1460-1470; † 1532). He also gave other lessons, but then switched to the Faculty of Law in 1511.

In April 1513 he became head of the pedagogy of the Tübingen Realistenburse, and finally at the end of 1515 he was the conventor of the Realistenburse. In 1514 he married Agnes Stoffel (approx. 1480–1530), the daughter of a wealthy Tübingen citizen. After receiving his doctorate as a utriusque iuris doctor (doctor in ecclesiastical and secular law), he became professor for institutions in Roman law in Tübingen on February 12, 1518 and at times dean of the Tübingen Faculty of Law. In 1522 his position as an institution professor was extended for life.

After the appointment of the canon law professor for the iura nova Heinrich Winkelhofer (around 1481-1526) as Chancellor of Württemberg in 1522, Kingsattler received his chair in the same year and held it until his death on July 21, 1534, as Winkelhofer died in 1526. As Winkelhofer's successor, he was also given legal representation for the Upper Swabian prelates in 1522. In 1529 he was able to purchase a house in Münzgasse in Tübingen.

Only after the death of his wife Agnes on August 23, 1530, with whom he had 15 children, did he settle for the winter semester 1530/1531, and after the death of Rector Jakob Lemp on April 2, 1532 for the period from April 2 elect to be rector of the University of Tübingen by May 1, 1532 and for the summer semester 1533. A votive picture and Kingsattler's epitaph are in the collegiate church of Tübingen . His autobiography, written in the 1530s, has been preserved in handwriting in the Tübingen University Library. In this he gives his correct name form: Ego Joannes Kingsattler dictus King.

literature

• Johannes Kingsattler, autobiography. Copy by Rudolf von Roth, Tübingen 1880. University library Tübingen, call number Mh 819a. Digitized
• Rolf Bidlingmaier: The ancestors of the poet Wilhelm Waiblinger . Stuttgart, Ed. Association for Family and Heraldry in Württemberg and Baden, 2000. ISBN 3-934464-01-7
• Dieter Mertens: Everyday life in schools on the Upper Rhine around 1500 , in Sönke Lorenz (Ed.): Late Middle Ages on the Upper Rhine: Everyday life, craft and trade 1350 - 1525 . Stuttgart, Thorbecke, 2001, pp. 473 - 480 pdf
• Karl Konrad Finke: Johannes Kingsattler alias König (1486 to 1534) . In: The professors of the Tübingen Faculty of Law (1477-1535) (= Tübingen professor catalog , vol. 1,2). Edited by Karl Konrad Finke. Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-5452-7 , pp. 162-170.
• Ingo Trüter: Scholarly CVs . Göttingen 2017, doi : 10.17875 / gup2017-1023 .