Kilian Reuter
Kilian Reuter, also: Chilianus eques Mellerstatinus, Chilian Reuther; (* before 1480 in Mellrichstadt ; † 1516 in Wittenberg ) was a German humanist and playwright .
Life
Reuter can be verified for the first time at the University of Cologne . Presumably he was a member of the Thomistic Montana Burse and had obtained a master's degree from Cologne University . Because he proudly pointed out that Lambertus de Monte († 1499) was his teacher. In Cologne he also began studying law, which he completed with a bachelor's degree in law, as can be proven in 1507 at his new place of work at the University of Wittenberg . In Cologne he made friends with Georg Sibutus , took part in his coronation as Poeta Laureate and enriched his " Panegyricus " with a poem. With Sibutus he also switched to the young Wittenberg University in the winter semester of 1505 .
Here he gave lectures as a Thomist since 1506 according to the logic of Petrus Hispanus . He was admitted to the philosophical faculty of the Wittenberg Academy in 1509, took over the chair of natural philosophy according to Thomas Aquinas in the same year and, after marrying the daughter of the influential Wittenberg citizen Thilo Dehne in 1513, became dean of the philosophical faculty in the winter semester of 1514. Among other things, he had contact with Ulrich von Hutten during his apprenticeship in Wittenberg . He was last proven in the winter semester of 1516 as a doctor of law and dean of the law faculty. Martin Luther testifies to his early death. It is therefore believed that he died in the winter of 1516.
As early as 1507, Reuter published the five-act Comedia gloriose parthenices et martiris Dorothee agoniam passionemque depingens in Leipzig, which ties in with the dramas by Hrotsvit von Gandersheim . In terms of material, Reuter ties in with the medieval tradition of the Dorothee Games in Saxony; he takes essential motifs, plot elements and literal phrases from Hrotsvits Dulcitius and Sapientia . Despite his own original and humorous additions, essentially a dramatized dialogue, he orients himself towards mastering the Latin language and the ancient form of drama. With this martyr drama, which was hardly intended for a stage version, he tried to combine Christian material with ancient or antique elements in order to undermine the scholastic criticism of the humanistic reception of "pagan" texts. However, this approach had no aftereffect. His widow died in February 1528.
literature
- Matriculation of the University of Wittenberg
- Götz-Rüdiger Tewes: Reuter (Reuther) from Mellrichstadt, Kilian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 471 ( digitized version ).
- Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
- Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg . Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
- Gerhard Wolf: Reuter, Kilian. In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon . Authors and works in German (15 volumes). Gütersloh, Munich: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl., 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 ), Vol. 9, pp. 405-406
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Buchwald : On the Wittenberg city and university history in the Reformation . Leipzig 1893, p. 23
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reuter, Kilian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chilianus eques Mellerstatinus; Chilian Reuther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German humanist and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1480 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mellrichstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1516 |
| Place of death | Wittenberg |