Johannes Metzler

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Johannes Metzler the Elder J. (also Hans , Mecelerus ) (* 1494 in Neusohl ; † October 2, 1538 ) was a Graecist and lawyer.

Life

His father was the Feldkirch merchant Johannes Metzler the Elder. Ä. († 1507), who acted as a factor in the Fugger mining industry in Upper Hungary. He immigrated to Breslau and founded a university here in 1505, which, however, was never realized.

He studied law and Greek with Richard Croke in Italy . In 1519 he became an iuris utriusque doctor in Siena . After his trip to Italy, he went to Leipzig with his Greek teacher Croke in 1515 , where he arrived shortly before Luther's Leipzig disputation with Johannes Eck . Like Sebastian Froeschel , he read here in Greek. Joachim Camerarius the Elder was one of his students . After Croke's return to Cambridge, he became a professor of the Greek language.

In 1525 he went to the Elisabeth School in Breslau , where he wrote the first school regulations, which were issued by the council in 1528. In 1532 he became councilor and in 1534 governor of the Bohemian Hereditary Principality of Breslau , where he is said to have treated Greek and Latin authors while still in this position at the grammar school.

He wrote a Greek grammar (Breslau 1529) and translated the writings of Plutarch and Demosthenes . In the last years of his life he was tormented by the podagra .

His grammar was supplemented by Antonius Niger in 1551 and reissued throughout the 16th century.

Publications

  • Primae grammatices Graecae partis rudimenta ; Haguenau, 1529
  • Johann Eck, Epistola de ratione studiorum suorum ; 1538

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crato von Crafftheim and his friends, p. 55
  2. ↑ http://www.ub.unibas.ch/kadmos/gg/?http://www.ub.unibas.ch/kadmos/gg/hi/higg0263.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info : The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ub.unibas.ch  
  3. ↑ Quarterly magazine for the past and present of Vorarlberg: The Metzler family in Feldkirch; P. 103 (PDF; 687 kB)
  4. ^ Adolf Schimmelpfennig:  Metzler, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 531 f.
  5. ↑ http://www.feldkirch.at/rathaus/bibliothek/geschichte-der-stadtbibliothek-feldkirch/Der-Humanismus-in-Feldkirch.pdf/download
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Metzler, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Metzler, Hans; Mecelerus, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Graecist and lawyer, governor of the Hereditary Principality of Wroclaw
DATE OF BIRTH 1494
PLACE OF BIRTH Neusohl
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1538