Levo Leve

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Levo Leve , also Leve Leve , Levo Leven , Leno Leve (wrong name form) (* around 1450 on the island of Strand ; † after 1495 in Lübeck ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman, canon in Schleswig and Lübeck and provost from 1475 to 1492 from Eiderstedt .

Life

family

Levo Leve was the second son of the strander stallion Laurens Leve and his wife Eyge or Ide Wunkesen († after 1492). His family had had privileges for generations that put them on an equal footing with the nobility . In 1461 it was recognized as a nobility by King Christian I and a coat of arms that shows two gold swords crossed as slabs in the red coat of arms.

Laurens Leve the Younger, mentioned as a stallion in 1522, was probably Levo Leve's older brother. Of his four sisters, Anneke (von Lewen) married the Lübeck mayor Johann Wickinghof , father of the Lübeck councilor Lambert Wickinghof . The Wickinghofs belonged to the circle society . His sister Katharina († 1519) also married into the patriciate of the Hanseatic city as the first wife of the member of the circle society and later councilor Johann Lüneburg from Lübeck . A third sister was married to Edleff Knudsen from another important family from Strander, who was executed in 1472 for his participation in the uprising of Gerd von Oldenburg against his brother King Christian I.

Canon in Schleswig and Lübeck

In 1459 his father founded a vicarie for him at the Schleswig Cathedral , which Levo already held in 1464. In 1465 he enrolled at the University of Rostock . In 1468, through a dispensation from Pope Paul II , his father acquired the right to further spiritual positions for his still underage son. Levo Leve was canon in Schleswig and Lübeck and pastor ( pleban ) of the Jakobikirche in Lübeck . In 1468/69 he received his bachelor's degree in Rostock and in 1471/72 his master's degree . In the mid to late 1470s he stayed to study canon law at the University of Perugia , which he completed with a doctorate. Levo Leve was provost of Eiderstedt from 1475 to 1492 .

First page of the Missale Slesvicense, financed by the Leves, with the proprium for the 1st Sunday in Advent

In Perugia he met Steffen Arndes in 1480 and worked with him for the first time. In Lübeck he met the printer again around 1485 and passed him on to his father, who financed the Missale Slesvicense . Laurens Leve and Steffen Arndes entered a company that was not dissolved by mutual agreement until 1494, with Levo Leve appearing as his father's agent in the dispute between the company. As part of the dissolution contract documented in the Lübeck Niederstadtbuch , Arndes received the workshop with all accessories, but Laurens Leve received 37 paper and five parchment copies of the missal in rough sheets, 90 bound copies of the Breviarium Slesvicense, also printed by Arndes, and 400 copies of the plenary worth total of ~ 700 Luebian marks . Arndes gave the Leves another 1,000 copies of the plenary and a probably Low German edition of the Legenda aurea in 1498.

In 1488 Levo Leve belonged to the Schleswig canons who elected Enevold Sövenbröder as bishop of Schleswig against the will of Pope Innocent VIII . The next Pope Alexander VI. imposed the excommunication on the resisting canons and thus enforced the papal candidate, Bishop Eggert Dürkop . Presumably as a consequence of the controversy over the election of bishops, Levo Leve gave up his Schleswig canonics together with the Praepositur in Eiderstedt in favor of Kerstianus (Karsten / Christian) Leve in May 1492 and received his Schleswig Vicarie at the altar of Saints Mary and Saints Philip and Jacob .

As the capital of the Lübeck cathedral chapter , he was buried in Lübeck cathedral . His grave slab, which has not been preserved, was in the southern ambulatory near the sculpture of the flagellation of Jesus ( retro chorum in latere australi prope bajulationem nostri salvatoris ). His curia probably went to the later cathedral dean Johannes Brandes (1467–1531) in 1515 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "The intervowel v of the first name (occasionally also the surname) written in contemporary sources as u is  read out in some papal documents ... and in Johann Henrich von Seelen ... as n ..." (Lohmeier: Missale Slesvicens. (Lit.), p. 33, note 26).
  2. ^ Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from older times. Lübeck 1859, p. 101 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ She was buried next to her husband under a stone heraldic grave slab with Lewen's coat of arms in the choir of the monastery church of St. John's monastery , which was documented but no longer preserved after the demolition in 1806 . Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns , Hugo Rahtgens: The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Crosses of thought and path and the path of suffering of Christ. Lübeck: Nöhring 1928, facsimile reprint 2001 ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , p. 32; Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100–1600. , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, pp. 796/797 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X .
  4. ↑ Entry 1465 in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  5. ↑ Mentioned in Jakob Franck :  Louwe, Joachim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 293 f., There in particular the correction of the ADB
  6. ^ Entry 1468/69 in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  7. ^ Entry 1471/72 in the Rostock matriculation portal.
  8. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier : News about Steffen Arndes. In: ZVLGA 82 (2002), pp. 45–58, here p. 51
  9. ↑ Printed by Carl Wilhelm Pauli : Contributions to the history of the first book printing company in Lübeck. In: ZVLGA 3. (1876), pp. 254-269, here pp. 267-269
  10. ↑ No copies received, see GW .
  11. ^ Dieter Lohmeier : The early days of book printing in Lübeck. In: Alken Bruns and Dieter Lohmeier (eds.): The Lübeck book printers in the 15th and 16th centuries. Letterpress for the Baltic region. Boyens, Heide in Holstein 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0668-9 , pp. 11-53, here p. 36; For details on the scope and motivation of the collaboration, see Wolfgang Undorf: From Gutenberg to Luther - Transnational Print Cultures in Scandinavia 1450–1525. Diss. Phil. Berlin 2012 full text , page 38-45.
  12. ^ Ernst Joachim von Westphalen : Monumenta inedita rerum Germanicarum praecipue Cimbricarum et Megapolensium. Volume 3, Leipzig: Martini, p. 314.
  13. ↑ This Kerstianus Leve could be Kerstianus Liuonis from Flensburg, who matriculated in Rostock in 1482 . Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100–1600. January Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , p 649, LÜDO * 215 mentions two brothers NN and Kerstian what Kerstian was a canon in Luebeck, having regard to the Memorienregister of the Duomo in Codex diplomaticus Lubecensis , Urkundenbuch of the Diocese of Lübeck , Volume 4, No. 2503, p. 578. It was probably the son of Laurens Leves brother and thus Levo Leves cousin.
  14. ↑ Acta Pontificum Danica IV, 3290 (1492 May 14); 3294
  15. ↑ Delivered from the cathedral to the St. Annen Museum Lübeck in 1915 and sent to Uwe Albrecht , Jörg Rosenfeld, Christiane Saumweber: Corpus of medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume I: Hanseatic City of Lübeck, St. Annen Museum . Ludwig, Kiel 2005, ISBN 3-933598-75-3 not listed.
  16. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 9–304. (Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9 ), p. 201, note 2; Presumably identical to Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100–1600. Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , p. 649, LÜDO * 215.
  17. ↑ Stefan Petersen: Benefit taxation on the periphery. Parish organization - benefice income - clerical education in the diocese of Ratzeburg. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001. ISBN 3-525-35312-X , (Studies on Germania Sacra 23), p. 306 with reference to the document book of the Diocese of Lübeck  IV, p. 557, no. 2503, line 3898.
personal data
SURNAME Leve, Levo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leve, Leve (stage name); Leve, Leno (stage name); Leven, Levo (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman, canon in Schleswig and Lübeck and provost of Eiderstedt (1475–1492)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1450
PLACE OF BIRTH on the island beach
DATE OF DEATH after 1495
Place of death Lübeck