Johannes von Gelnhausen
Johannes von Gelnhausen (also Johann von Gelnhausen or Johannes de Geylnhausen ) was the chief registrar in the chancellery of Emperor Charles IV in Prague and wrote the Codex Gelnhausen named after him around 1405 .
Life
Johannes von Gelnhausen probably had a legal and rhetorical-stylistic education in Italy. At first he held a notary's office in Germany, then he came to Bohemia and initially worked as a mine clerk in Kuttenberg , from 1365 he is imperial notary and registrar in Prague . In 1369 he came to Italy with Johann von Neumarkt . When Johann von Neumarkt became bishop in Olomouc , he followed him and joined his Olomouc office. Among other things, he began to put together the collection of forms Collectarius perpetuarum formarum , which was based on the Summa cancellariae Caroli IV. Johann von Neumarkt. He dedicated a manuscript from his formula book to Duke Albrecht III. In 1379 he went to Brno as a town clerk and worked in Jihlava from 1397 , where he can be proven until 1404. It was here, possibly not until 1410, that he translated the Ius regale montanorum of the Bohemian King Wenceslaus II , created between 1300 and 1305, into German. This codification of mining law is of great importance for the history of the reception of Roman and canon law .
From the early days of Johannes von Gelnhausen's activity in Mainz, there is a Latin-German Marian prayer in verse, which is preserved in a manuscript in the Vienna Schottenstift .
literature
- Hans Martin Schaller : Johannes von Gelnhausen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 552 ( digitized version ).
- Ivan Hlavácek : J (ohann) von Gelnhausen . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 5, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-8905-0 , Sp. 518.
- Middle High German dictionary on the German language monuments of Bohemia and the Moravian cities of Brno, Iglau and Olomouc (XIIIth to XVIth centuries) by Franz Jelinek (Germanic Library I, IV, 3), Heidelberg 1911 http://www.archive.org/stream /mittelhochdeutsc00jeliuoft/mittelhochdeutsc00jeliuoft_djvu.txt
- Hans Rupprich : The German Literature From the Late Middle Ages to the Baroque, CH Beck 1973
- Jana Nechutová: The Latin Literature of the Middle Ages in Bohemia, Böhlau 2008
- Jihlava collection of judgments on the town and mining rights of Johannes von Gelnhausen (Jihlava, Státní okresní archiv v Jihlavě, Sg. 265, No. 389) (František Hoffmann, Soupis rukopisů Státního okresního archivu v Jihlavě, Jihlava 2001)
Web links
- Iohannes de Gelnhausen in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Publications by and about Johannes von Gelnhausen in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
Remarks
- ^ Zdeněk Masařík: The early New High German business language in Moravia. Brno 1985 (= Opera Universitatis Purkynianae Brunensis: Facultas filosofica. Volume 259), p. 18 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Johannes von Gelnhausen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johannes de Geylnhausen; Johannes von Geylenhusen; John de Gelnhausen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Senior registrar in the chancellery of Emperor Charles IV. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1350 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th century |