Johannes Tegen

Johannes Tegen (* before 1430; † September 30, 1482 in Tübingen ), also known under the name form Johannes Degen or Tegan , Tengen or Tegelin , Bakkalar in canon law , was the last provost of the St. Martin monastery in Sindelfingen (1455-1477 ), then first provost of the St. Georg Monastery in Tübingen (1477–1482) and also first chancellor of the University of Tübingen .

Life

Johannes Tegen came from a respected family with origins in Esslingen. Since the name Tegen / Degen appears frequently in contemporary documents, there is occasional confusion with bearers of the same name. His father of the same name was the son of the Stuttgart Vogts Albert Tegen (term of office 1395-1417). His predecessor in the office of the Provost of Sindelfingen, the Doctor of Canon Law Heinrich Tegen (term of office 1433–1455), was his uncle and an influential Württemberg councilor and judge.

After studying at the artist faculty in Heidelberg in the winter semester of 1443/1444, he received his doctorate in 1445 as a Baccalaureus Artium and in 1448 as a master's degree. He completed his associated legal studies in Heidelberg with a doctorate in canon law on December 14, 1451, after he had received the parish of Aidlingen in the previous year (1450) . He ceded this to his uncle Heinrich in 1455 and was elected its provost at the presentation of the sovereign from the chapter of the Sindelfingen monastery of St. Martin, the richest monastery in the Urach region in 1442–1482. In this function he was entrusted with numerous legal and diplomatic missions by the government of Württemberg-Urach in addition to his church duties.

Due to the relocation of the Sindelfingen monastery to Tübingen in 1477 as essential basic financial resources for the university established there in the same year, Johannes Tegen also moved to the city on the Neckar, which had become a university, and became the first provost of the Tübingen monastery St. Georg, which was founded at the same time. Only two of the former ten canonicals remained in Sindelfingen together with a third of the previous income and were integrated into a new canon regular monastery with Augustinian canons of the Windesheim congregation.

Until the reorganization of the University of Tübingen in 1561, the chancellery of the university was associated with the provost's office, which was relocated to Tübingen, even after the loosening and later separation of the personal and financial connections between the university and the monastery since 1483. Despite his teaching qualification as a bachelor's degree in canon law, there is no evidence of Tegen teaching in Tübingen. Since the chancellor had a role as a representative of the church, which also included a supervisory function with regard to the regulations set by the university and also an intermediary function between the sovereign and the university as well as the university and the city of Tübingen, Tegen was probably released from teaching obligations at the university. He was also no longer used by the state rulers for legal and diplomatic missions since he took over the university's chancellery.

During a plague epidemic Tegen died in Tübingen on November 30, 1482. With the appointment of his successor Johannes Vergenhans alias Nauclerus or Nauklerus (around 1425–1510) between January 21 and February 4, 1483, an even closer confidante came to the office until 1509 of the Tübingen Provost Chancellor.

literature

• Johann Baptist Sproll: Constitution of the Sankt Georgen-Stift zu Tübingen and its relationship to the university in the period from 1476–1534 , part 2. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive , New Series Volume 4, 1903, pp. 180f.
• Wolfram Angerbauer: The Chancellery at the University of Tübingen and its owners 1590-1817 (Contubernium, Volume 4). JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-16-833471-5 , pp. 1-5.
• Waldemar Teufel: Universitas Studii Tuwingensis. The Tübingen university constitution in the pre-Reformation period (1477–1534) (Contubernium, Volume 12). JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-16-939651-X , especially p. 117ff.
• Oliver eye: pen and rule. A study on the instrumentalization of world clergy and church property for the interests of the Württemberg rule based on the biographies of Sindelfingen Pröpste (Publications of the Sindelfingen City Archives, Volume 4), Sindelfingen City Administration 1996, ISBN 3-928222-25-2 , pp. 138–156.
• Oliver Auge: Cleric in the service of the Württemberg government. The first Tübingen University Chancellor Johannes Tegen . In: Building blocks for the history of the University of Tübingen, Volume 8. University Archives Tübingen 1997, pp. 5–12.
• Oliver Auge: Stift biographies. The clerics of the Stuttgart Holy Cross Monastery (1250–1552) . DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2002, ISBN 3-87181-438-5 , especially pp. 179, 375f., 414.
• Oliver Auge: University and school as part of the history of the Tübingen monastery . In: colleges in the region. Knowledge transfer between church and territory , ed. by Sönke Lorenz, Martin Kintzinger and Oliver Auge (Writings on Southwest German Regional Studies, Volume 50). Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7995-5250-2 , pp. 141–166, especially p. 147.
• Christian Hesse: Office holder of the princes in the late medieval empire. The functional elites of the local administration in Bavaria-Landshut, Hesse, Saxony and Württemberg 1350–1515 (series of publications by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 70). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005, ISBN 3-525-36063-0 , especially pp. 713, 722 (relationship).
• Sönke Lorenz, Dieter R. Bauer and Oliver Auge (eds.): Tübingen in teaching and research around 1500. On the history of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Tübingen building blocks for regional history, Volume 9). Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7995-5509-8 , p. 1ff., Especially p. 13.
• Karl Konrad Finke: The professors of the Tübingen law faculty (1477–1535) (Tübingen professor catalog , volume 1,2). Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-5452-7 , introduction pp. 19ff., 40–44, especially p. 43 with note 24, portraits p. 394 (Johannes Schelz / Johannes Tegen).

Web links

• Evidence of the Tübingen University Chancellors 1477-1933 on the Internet