Latin School Gemmingen
The Latin school in Gemmingen in today's Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg was a Latin school that existed for around 100 years from 1521.
In 1521 Wolf von Gemmingen founded a Latin school, which was supposed to provide the aristocratic sons with education for later studies at the university . Wolf von Gemmingen and his brothers Philipp and Dietrich were already Reformation-minded at that time and soon gathered around them a large number of Reformation clergy and scholars who had been expelled from their previous places of work. After Dietrich's death, Wolf and Philipp recommended his Guttenberg preacher Kaspar Gretter to the city of Heilbronn in 1527 as head of the Heilbronn Latin School . The Gemminger Latin School was initially headed by the Gemminger Pastor Buss and from 1531 by the Magister Franciscus Irenicus . Irenicus died in Gemmingen and was buried there too, his tombstone was placed in the garden of the Gemmingen Lower Castle when the Gemmingen church was rebuilt in 1846/47 .
Well-known students of this Latin school were Reinhard von Gemmingen , Wolf Greck von Kochendorff , Christof Landschad von Steinach , Johann Philipp von Helmstatt , Cuntz von Vellberg , Hans Walther von Gemmingen and the later Archbishop of Mainz Wolfgang von Dalberg . The most important student was the later scholar and author, who also wrote about the Kraichgau , David Chyträus from Menzingen .
The school went under in the Thirty Years War .
literature
- Martin Schneider: The knights in Kraichgau and the Reformation. In: Yearbook for Church and Religious History in Baden 1 , Stuttgart 2007, pp. 143–146.
- rm: Where an elector went to school . In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of March 25, 1981.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Friedrich Jaeger : Mittheilungen for the Swabian and Franconian Reformation history. Stuttgart 1828, pp. 83-85.