Josef Grunpeck

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Josef Grünpeck , also Joseph Grünpeck Boioarius (* July 24, 1473 in Burghausen ; † after 1530, probably around 1532 in Steyr / Upper Austria ), was a German humanist, physician, astrologer and historiographer.

Life

Illustration from the autograph manuscript of Grünpeck's De reformatione ecclesiae , around 1520 (Karlsruhe, BLB, Cod.Durlach 19, fol.7r)

Grünpeck was born in the Upper Bavarian town of Burghausen . His presumed date of birth is recorded in a contemporary birth chart.He studied in Ingolstadt from 1487 , where he received the title of Baccalaureus in 1488 and the Magister Artium (Master of Arts) in 1491, and in Krakow in 1494 . After a few trips, he held a professorship for rhetoric in Ingolstadt in 1496, but fled to Augsburg from syphilis in the same year . The later Emperor Maximilian I (HRR) accepted Grünpeck in 1497, probably for his homage play "Virtus et Fallacicaptrix", as Amanuensis and crowned Grünpeck, who also worked as a poet and theater artist, as a poet the following year. After Grünpeck became infected with syphilis in Augsburg in 1501, he retired to Burghausen and worked on treatments for the infectious disease from which he was cured in 1503. He then lived in several cities. In 1505 he opened the municipal Latin school in Regensburg, the Poeticum grammar school on Jesuitenplatz.

Works

Among the most important works include Grünpecks his remarks about the cure of syphilis, one of the first publications on this disease, as well as his historiographical magazine Historia Friderici III et Maximiliani I . In addition, he published a large number of prophetic-astrological writings, which were probably mainly used to make money. Several leaflets from Joseph Grünpeck have also survived. His astrological pamphlets are known in multiple editions:

  • A new interpretation of the strange miracle signs and miracles ... from 1507 to the Reichstag in Constance, as well as the new edition from 1515.
  • A mirror of the natural, heavenly and prophetic visions ( Speculum naturalis, coelestis et propheticae visionis ), his prognostic-astrological, indexed main work from 1508, as well as the new edition from 1522.

There are still autograph manuscripts of some of his works, such as the Historia Friderici et Maximiliani (Vienna, ÖNB , Cod. 2402) or De reformatione ecclesiae (Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek , Cod. Durlach 19).

literature

  • Gundolf Keil : Grünpeck (nickname Boioarius), Joseph. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 514.
  • Johannes Klaus Kipf, Sarah Slattery: Grünpeck (-beckius, -peckh ,; Grien-, Grun-), Joseph . In: German Humanism 1480-1520. Author Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Volume 1. De Gruyter, Sp. 971-992.
  • Edmund von Oefele:  Grünpeck, Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 56-59.
  • Dieter Wuttke:  Grünpeck, Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 202 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Sarah Slattery: Astrology, Miraculous Signs, and Propaganda. The pamphlets of the humanist Joseph Grünpeck . In: Klaus Bergdolt , Walther Ludwig : Future predictions in the Renaissance . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05289-9 (= Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung, Vol. 23), pp. 329–347.
  • Heike Talkenberger: Flood. Prophecy and contemporary events in texts and woodcuts of astrological pamphlets 1488-1528 . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1990 (= studies and texts on the social history of literature , vol. 26).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gundolf Keil: Grünpeck [...]. 2005, p. 514.
  2. ↑ Erected on the 20th hour after noon on July 23, 1473 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Dieter Wuttke: Art. Josef Grünpeck , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie, ed. from the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 7, Berlin 1966, pp. 202f.
  4. ^ Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 354 .
  5. ↑ A new interpretation ... in the VD-16 of the BSB
  6. ↑ A mirror of the natural ... in the VD-16 of the BSB
personal data
SURNAME Grünpeck, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grünbeckius, Joseph; Grünpeckh, Josef; Grienbeck, Josef; Grunbeck, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist, physician, astrologer and historiographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1473
PLACE OF BIRTH Burghausen
DATE OF DEATH after 1530
Place of death unsure: Burghausen