Laurentius Blumenau
Laurentius Blumenau (* in Danzig ; † June 7, 1484 in La Grande Chartreuse ) was a humanist , German Order jurist and finally Carthusian .
Life
Blumenau has attended the University of Leipzig since 1434 ( Baccalaureus in 1437 ) and the one in Bologna since 1444 , where he was awarded a Dr. jur. received his doctorate . Without being a friar himself, he represented the Grand Master several times as procurator or envoy to the curia or the emperor because of the legal dispute with the Prussian Estates .
He acted as auditor of the Roman Rota in Rome , was temporarily in the service and in the favor of Cardinal Bishop Peter von Augsburg and also held the position of canon at a benefice of the Warmia Church reserved for the order .
Under the pressure of the aforementioned legal dispute, he left the monastic state in 1456 and joined the service of Duke Sigismund of Tyrol as trustee (alongside Gregor Heimburg ) . In the conflict between the duke and the pope over Nikolaus von Kues he was banned and imprisoned. As the representative of the Archbishop of Salzburg , he was active on several diets from 1466 to 1471 . In 1468 he was sent again to Rome for the Teutonic Order, shortly afterwards he joined the Carthusians and became prior of the Carthusian monastery of Villeneuve .
Blumenau is considered the first humanist in Prussia . The history of the order, written by Blumenau around 1460, ends in 1449, but is considered valuable and informative, especially for his own time.
Works
- Hist. de ordine Theutonicorum cruciferorum , edited by Max Toeppen , in: Scriptores rerum Prussicarum , Volume IV, Leipzig 1874, pp. 35-67.
literature
- Hartmut Boockmann : Laurentius Blumenau. Princely councilor, lawyer, humanist. (approx. 1415–1484) (= Göttingen building blocks for historical science. Vol. 37, ZDB -ID 504693-2 ). Musterschmidt, Göttingen et al. 1965 (At the same time: Göttingen, University, dissertation, 1961).
- Gustav C. Knod: German Students in Bologna (1289–1562) Biographical Index to the Acta nationis germanicae Universitatis bononienses , German Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 1899, p. 155; (Digital scan)
- Karl Lohmeyer : Blumenau, Laurentius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 747 f.
- Klaus-Eberhard Murawski: Blumenau, Laurentius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 328 f. ( Digitized version ).
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blumenau, Laurentius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Humanist, German Order jurist and Carthusian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1484 |
| Place of death | La Grande Chartreuse |