Johannes Steinmeyer

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German organ builder, see Johannes Steinmeyer (organ builder) .

Johannes Steinmeyer (born around 1450 in Lindau ;. D to 1500 / 1510 probably in Konstanz ), also known as John Stainmayer , Stainer , writer , Scriptoris detected or similar, was a German lawyer , professor and rector of the University of Tuebingen , and attorney in Service of the Episcopal Curia of the Diocese of Constance .

Life

Johannes Steinmeyer came from a Lindau patrician family . His grandfather Hans Steinmeyer von Bregenz had acquired citizenship in Lindau in 1420 and became a member of the city council in 1424. His father of the same name was also a member of the council of this city (1480, 1488) and is also recorded in other urban functions. In 1485 he lived in the house in the hole in Lindau . Johannes was probably the eldest son of five children from the marriage with the patrician daughter Ursula von Stein.

In the summer semester of 1467 he began studying at the Artistic Faculty of the University of Leipzig under the name Johannes Scriptoris . After a short break, he obtained his master's degree there around 1475. At the University of Pavia , where he can be found in the records of several rectorate elections, he then studied law and graduated with the title of Doctor of Both Rights (utriusque iuris doctor) . With this title it appears on July 9, 1486 in the register of the University of Tübingen. In the winter semester of 1486/1487 he was elected rector of the University of Tübingen.

Whether he belonged to the group of six full-time professors at the Tübingen Law Faculty has not been proven. However, during this time doctors of both rights with the title of an Italian university did not have to be satisfied with subordinate functions. Around 1491 he married the widow Margreth of the Konstanz notary Nikolaus Vögeli as Doctor Hans Stainer and settled in Konstanz. Steinmeyer then worked for the Episcopal Curia in Constance as a lawyer (procurator) . This results from a manuscript preserved in Prague from the library of Weißenau Abbey with the title Collectanea iuridica Joannis Stammayer doctoris , which his widow had sold along with about 100 volumes from her husband's library and which after the abolition of the Weißenau Premonstratensian Foundation in 1803 to the university library Prague arrived (signature Lobk. 241). Steinmeyer died before 1510, because in the Konstanz tax book of that year it is no longer he himself, but his now widowed wife Margreth Stainer (Staimerin) .

The Freiburg town clerk and later university professor of law Ulrich Zasius described Steinmeyer in a letter to the council of Freiburg im Breisgau in 1495 as a learned man whose advice he gladly took advantage of.

literature

• Karl Heinz Burmeister: Johannes Steinmeyer from Lindau, law teacher in Pavia and Tübingen . In: Alemannia Studens 10 (2000) , pp. 17-23.
• Karl Konrad Finke: Johannes Steinmeyer alias Stainer, Schreiber, Scriptoris (around 1450 to around 1500/1510) . In: The professors of the Tübingen Faculty of Law (1477–1535) (Tübingen professor catalog , volume 1,2). Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-5452-7 , pp. 312-315.