Johannes Vritze

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Johannes Vritze , also Johannes Vritze von Wantzenberg and various variants of it († 1408 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer, council secretary of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck and canon of Hamburg .

Life

It is possible that his nickname of Wantzenberg is a name of origin and possibly refers to the Wanzeberg in southwest Mecklenburg. According to other information, he came from Saxony ; An origin from Lüneburg is also conceivable. In any case, two of his sisters lived there.

He probably studied at the University of Prague . From 1362 to 1386 he worked as council secretary in Lübeck. In 1383 he made a first will in Lübeck, which has survived. In 1387 he was mentioned in Lübeck without an official title and returned to the University of Prague in 1389. On October 30, 1390, the city council of Rostock gave him a barrel of wine as Magister Vitze from Lübeck . In 1396 he sold his land in Lübeck and oriented himself to Hamburg, but received payments from Lübeck in 1400/1401. He became canon at Hamburg Cathedral (Alter Mariendom) and in 1406 built a new canon curia. In his will in 1408 he left an extensive foundation for the benefit of the cathedral. He donated the (first) lecture at the cathedral, which should be filled with a doctor or at least a bachelor's degree in theology. At the same time, he donated the St. Vitus Chapel with its vicariate and his newly built house for the lecturer's apartment. The endowment was made from large portions of Lüneburg salt pans. In addition, he donated a large amount of money for the employment of four cathedral preachers, which the chapter in turn invested in a salt house in Lüneburg.

literature

  • Eduard Meyer: History of the Hamburg school and teaching system in the Middle Ages. Meißner, Hamburg 1843, pp. 60-69
  • Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851 in ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), p. 124/125

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: Older history of the Saline zu Conow . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. , Vol. 11 (1846), pp. 123-140, full text
  2. ↑ Lindenbruch, quoted in Meyer (Lit.), p. 66
  3. ↑ They were considered in the will, see Meyer (Lit.), p. 63 note 1
  4. ^ Image in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck ; Edited in Hansische Geschichtsblätter 32 (1904) ( digitized version ), pp. 80–83.
  5. ↑ See the list in Meyer (Lit.), pp. 61f
personal data
SURNAME Vritze, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vritze von Wantzenberg, Johannes (full name); Fritze; Vrietze; Wanzenberg; Wintzenberg; Wantzenberger; Wantzenborch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Council Secretary of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Hamburg Canon
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1408
Place of death Hamburg