Johannes Prausser

Johannes Prausser , also Johannes Pruser or Prauser, († after 1480 ) was a Dominican and writer. While the name form Prausser is common in German studies , historians call him Pruser .

Life

The Dominican of the Nuremberg convent was sent in 1473 to establish the branch in Stuttgart . Until 1475 he was prior there , from the same year also lecturer and general preacher of the order province .

As a close confidante of Count Ulrich the Well-Beloved, he played a decisive role in the reform of the Wuerttemberg convents in 1478. B. the Mariental monastery (Steinheim an der Murr) . He was probably appointed vicar in all Reformed convents , for example in 1479 of the Gotteszell monastery near Schwäbisch Gmünd . In 1476 he seems to have considered converting to the Carthusian Order , as he received a two-month permission to do so from the order general. In 1481 Prausser was supposed to go to Heidelberg University , but he preferred to return to Nuremberg, where his traces are lost.

Works

Sermon summary

A Latin treatise on widowhood ascribed to him has only survived in the translation by Felix Fabri : Badische Landesbibliothek St. Georgen Cod. 102. Prausser was considered a very good preacher. In 1481 he gave a sermon on the inexpressibility of God's name. A postscript is preserved in the Eis Collection , Cod. 114, Bl. 170r / v. An excerpt from the sermon by Father Prausser contains a devotional book from St. Catherine's Monastery in Nuremberg (Austin, Harry Ransom Center, HRC 41, p. 89v).

Prausser's pious zeal is briefly acknowledged in the Reform Chronicle (often attributed to the Dominican Magdalena Kremer) from the monastery in Kirchheim unter Teck .

Web links

• St. Georgen Cod. 102 in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek

literature

• Gerhard Eis: Johannes Prausser's sermon on the inexpressibility of God . In: Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 31 (1961), pp. 323-325.
• Dieter Stievermann: State rule and monasteries in late medieval Württemberg . Sigmaringen 1989, pp. 278-286.
• The same: founding, reform and reformation of the women's monastery in Offenhausen . In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 47 (1988), pp. 149–202, here p. 169f.
• Peter Renner: Johannes Prausser OP . In: Author's Lexicon, 2nd edition, Vol. 7 (1989), Sp. 810-811.
• Bernhard Neidiger: The Dominican monastery in Stuttgart, the canons of life together in Urach and the foundation of the University of Tübingen. Competing reform approaches in the Württemberg church policy at the end of the Middle Ages (= publications of the Stuttgart City Archives, vol. 58). Stuttgart: Kommissionsverlag Klett-Cotta 1993, pp. 27, 33, 74, 82.
• Roland Deigendesch: The Güterstein Charterhouse . Leinfelden / Echterdingen 2001, pp. 72, 313.
• Britta-Juliane Kruse: widows. Cultural history of an estate in the late Middle Ages and early modern times . Berlin 2007, p. 52 (excerpt from Google Books ).
• The spiritual literature of the late Middle Ages . Berlin / Boston 2011, Sp. 1497f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Untermann: Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg, Dominican Monastery Steinheim [accessed on February 19, 2017]
2. ↑ digitized version .
3. ↑ digital copy : http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/mnemGal/41/HRC_41.pdf . See http://www.handschriftencensus.de/22766 .
4. ↑ Sattler's edition: https://books.google.de/books?id=BhhhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA173 . Handwriting of the Schottenstift: http://manuscripta.at/diglit/AT8900-307/0008 . Compare also Stefanie Monika Neidhardt: Autonomy in obedience . Berlin 2017, p. 469 (register under Pruser). Facsimile of Prausser's handwritten entry in a Kirchheim account book with Maria Magdalena Rückert: The account of the conductress Barbara von Speyer from the Dominican convent of St. Johannes Baptista in Kirchheim unter Teck . In: Economic and accounting books of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Göttingen 2015, pp. 61–78, here p. 73 ( online ).