Konrad Vessler

Konrad Vessler , also Konrad Feßler , Konrad Fesseler , Konrad Vässeler (* around 1450 in Eberhardzell , † after 1508 probably in Tübingen ) was a German church lawyer, canon at the Tübingen St. Georg-Stift and university professor in Basel and Tübingen. Between 1478 and 1503 he was rector of the University of Tübingen repeatedly and was also elected judge for several years in the three-member judges' college of the Swabian Federation , which had been in existence since 1500 .

Life

The cleric Konrad Vessler, who lives in Eberhardzell near Biberach, began his university studies in the summer semester of 1463 at the Artistenfakultät Basel , which earned him a bachelor's degree in 1464 and a master's degree in 1467, and then elected him dean in the summer semesters of 1471 and 1473. The transcript of a lecture on the Regulae parvorum logicalium probably from the period around 1465 to 1467 testifies to his teaching activity at the Artistenfakultät Basel. He is often confused with the Magister and Bachelor of Theology of the same name from Mindelheim who was matriculated at the University of Basel in the summer semester of 1469 1473 in Basel was awarded a doctorate in canon law. Since 1465, Vessler has been rector positions in various parish churches, for which he mostly received a permit from the Bishop of Constance.

Teaching activity in Tübingen

When the University of Tübingen opened in 1477, he was one of the first teachers and examiners at the artist faculty, became one of the four Bursen rectors , at the same time a member of the faculty council, in the summer semester 1478 rector of the university and in the winter semester 1479/1480 also dean of the artist faculty. His steep career in Tübingen was encouraged by contacts at the University of Basel, especially in the mid-1460s, including those with Johannes Vergenhans alias Nauclerus, the professor of canon law teaching in Basel from 1464 to 1465, the first university rector and close advisor to Count Eberhard from Württemberg Bart, and also those with his Basel teacher Johannes Heynlin von Stein , the theology professor who had been recruited in 1477 and taught in Tübingen from 1478 to 1479. After 1482, Vessler was given a canon donation at St. Georg-Stift in Tübingen as an additional source of income.

In addition to teaching as a collegiate at the Faculty of Arts, from 1487 still a lecture on the ars vetus is proven Vessler first took the study of theology, which he awarded the degree of Bakkalar ended, after which the law. In 1487 at the latest he was licentiate in canon law, and finally in 1491 doctor of canon law. Between 1490 and 1503, the Tübingen University elected him again after 1478 in four further six-month terms as its rector (1490/91, 1497, 1502, 1502/03). Vessler's close connection to the Tübingen Faculty of Law is evidenced by a faculty report from 1495, which he signed alongside the three professorships of the faculty and another Tübingen canon. In addition, he was appointed assessor at the Württemberg court in 1492 and 1493.

Judge at the Federal Court of the Swabian Federation

After the federal court of the Swabian Federation was expanded to three judges in 1500 , Vessler was successively elected as judge for the one-year terms of office until 1506. In 1508 he still appears as the owner of the parish of Schönaich. After that his track is lost. That Vessler was one of the most influential men in teaching at the University of Tübingen in his time can be seen in a poem by Tübingen poetry professor Heinrich Bebel from 1496. Vessler retained his influence in the university even after the end of his last term of office as its rector in the spring of 1503, because Tübingen remained the seat of the court during his further work as a judge at the Federal Court of the Swabian Federation.

literature

• Johannes Haller: The beginnings of the University of Tübingen 1477–1537 , part 1, W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1927, especially pp. 141–142.
• Siegfried Frey: The Württemberg court court (1460-1618) (publications of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg, series B: representations, volume 113). W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-17-009952-3 , especially p. 173.
• Horst Carl: The Swabian Federation 1488–1534. Peace in the Land and Cooperative in the Transition from the Late Middle Ages to the Reformation (Writings on Southwest German Regional Studies, Volume 24). DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2000, ISBN 3-87181-424-5 , especially pp. 392-394.
• Sönke Lorenz: Eberhard im Bart and his university. An introduction. In: Tübingen in teaching and research around 1500. On the history of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , ed. by Sönke Lorenz, Dieter Bauer and Oliver Auge (Tübingen Building Blocks for Regional History, Volume 9). Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7995-5509-8 , pp. 1-59, especially pp. 25f.
• Sönke Lorenz: Logic in the Tübingen curriculum. In: 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 , pp. 177–206, here pp. 186f.
• Karl Konrad Finke: Konrad Vessler (around 1450 to after 1508) . In: The professors of the Tübingen Faculty of Law (1477–1535) , edited by Karl Konrad Finke (Tübingen professor catalog, volume 1,2). Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-5452-7 , pp. 344-352.