Johannes Nibling

Johannes Nibling (* around 1463 in Volkach ; † 1526 in Ebrach ) was prior in the Cistercian monastery of Ebrach until around 1524 . He was also active as a writer and historian.

Life

Johannes Nibling was born around 1463 in the Franconian town of Volkach. Nothing is known about the family of the future prior, but members of the Nibling family also appeared in Volkach in later centuries. The school education of Johannes Nibling is also in the dark. After joining the Cistercian Abbey of Ebrach in the Steigerwald, Nibling began studying at Heidelberg University .

In Heidelberg, Nibling first obtained a degree in the liberal arts before completing his bachelor's degree in theology . Back in Ebrach, the young academic rose quickly. At first he taught theology at the monastery 's own college in Ebrach, until he was elected prior of the abbey around 1500, an office that he held for a total of about 24 years. In 1510 he was sent together with the provost Johannes Pandler von St. Gangolf to the Reichstag in Augsburg , where the rights of Ebrach were confirmed to him by Emperor Maximilian .

During his priory, Nibling began to write four volumes, the so-called compilationes , on the history of the monastery. The fourth volume remained unfinished and was completed after the death of the prior by his successors Andreas Denzer and a certain Heppenstein. End of October 1511 visited the Prior with abbot Johannes Leiterbach the monastery Bildhausen , where he led a visitation by. As a visitor he also introduced the new Bildhäuser Abbot Kilian to the Würzburg prince-bishop.

Because of his advanced age, Nibling gave up the office of prior von Ebrach in 1524 and became provost in the Schönau monastery near Gemünden. He only stayed there for a short time, however, because his health deteriorated dramatically. In 1526, Nibling died at the age of 63 either in Ebrach or in the Nuremberg cloister courtyard of the abbey. He was buried in the monastery church and honored with an epitaph . It was not until 1879 that Pius Wittmann rediscovered the compilation .

Works

• Series abbatum monasterii Eberacensis . Ebrach undated
• Compilationes. Four volumes . Ebrach around 1514.

literature

• Wilhelm Engel: Varia Ebracensia from the “house book” of Prior Johann Nibling (1489–1521) (= special edition of the Würzburg diocesan history sheets 11th / 12th century) . Wuerzburg 1950.
• Pius Wittmann: Johannes Nibling, Prior in Ebrach and his works . Brno 1896.
• Friedrich Lauchert:  Nibling, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 615 f.

Web links

• Cistercian Lexicon : Nibling, Johannes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ While this place is mostly mentioned in the literature, Engel (p. 213) assumes Nuremberg. See: Friedrich Lauchert :  Nibling, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 615 f.
2. ↑ Cistercian Lexicon : Nibling, Johannes , accessed on April 16, 2018.
3. ↑ Engel, Wilhelm: Varia Ebracensia . P. 214.
4. ^ Wittmann, Pius: Johannes Nibling, Prior in Ebrach and his works . P. 1.