Reading master
With reading champion , also Leszmeister or Lesmeister , Latin lector (claustri) , were referred to in the Middle Ages and in modern times a teacher of theology and philosophy in a monastery or a convent school . Even in the non-monastic area, a professor at a university was sometimes referred to as a reading master .
Reading masters often had other management tasks in the monasteries, the office of reading master could be a gateway to higher offices. Through their education and literary studies, reading masters also appeared as historians, mediators in important disputes and, during the Reformation, as authors of pamphlets and biblical interpretations.
Well-known reading masters
- Albertus Magnus OP (around 1200–1280)
- Heinrich von Isny OFM (1222–1288)
- Albert of Brescia OP († 1314)
- Meister Eckhart OP (around 1260–1328)
- Giselher von Slatheim OP (around 1300-1337)
- Berthold von Moosburg OP († after 1361)
- Hermann Korner OP (around 1365–1438)
- Detmar OFM († after 1395)
- Clevi Fryger OFM († after 1442)
- Seyfried Fasser OCarm (* around 1400)
- Felix Fabri OP (1438–1502)
- Johannes Pauli OFM (around 1455–1533)
- Johann Eberlin von Günzburg OFM (around 1470–1533)
- Simon Grunau OP (around 1470–1533 / 1537)
- Thomas Murner OFM (1475-1537)
- Patroclus Römeling OFM (1481–1571)
- Sebastian Hofmeister OFM (1494–1533)
- Hans Tausen (1494–1561)
- Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623)
- Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari OSBCam , 1790 as Fr. Mauro reading master, from 1831 Pope Gregory XVI.
literature
- Reading master . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 8 , issue 7/8 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1989, ISBN 3-7400-0096-1 , Sp. 1234 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).
- DudenEtym. 400
- Reading master, 3). In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 12 : L, M - (VI). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1885 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
Web links
- Middle High German dictionary. Reprint of the Leipzig edition 1854–1866; Stuttgart: S. Hirzel 1990.
- History of the Katharineum zu Lübeck about reading master Detmar and his Lübeck world chronicle
- Readers (lecturers) from the history of the Franciscan (-Minorite) monastery in Würzburg ( Memento from September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Remarks
- ↑ Reading Master, 3). In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 12 : L, M - (VI). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1885 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).