Ludwig Gremp von Freudenstein

Family coat of arms Ludwig Gremp von Freudenstein

Ludwig Gremp (from Freudenstein) (* 29. December 1510 in Stuttgart , † 11 / 13 May 1583 in Strasbourg ) was a German jurist and general counsel of Strasbourg. In 1552 he was raised to the imperial nobility (von Freudenstein).

Live and act

Ludwig Gremp was born in Stuttgart in 1510 (his exact date of birth is only recorded in a contemporary natal chart). His parents were the Württemberg councilor and chamber master Onophrius Gremp (around 1487–1554) and Agathe geb. Better (around 1490–1550). In 1525 he enrolled at the University of Tübingen and later switched to studying law . In 1535 he continued his studies at the University of Orléans and in 1536 at the University of Ingolstadt . In 1537 he was appointed professor of law at the University of Tübingen, and it is very likely that he had recently received his doctorate in law. His teaching assignment covered the entire corpus iuris civilis ; while working in Tübingen he published two legal textbooks. In 1541 he accepted a position as city counsel for the imperial city of Strasbourg and held this office until his death in 1583.

In this role, Gremp developed an extensive and meaningful activity. He participated in legal opinions and represented the Protestant city on various diets and before the emperor . In these diplomatic missions, which were extremely difficult because of the confessional conflict in the empire, he nevertheless acted as a Protestant in a balancing and mediating manner.

In the last year of his life, he arranged for his assets to be transferred to a family foundation , which from then on was supposed to make it financially easier for members of his family to study at the University of Tübingen . This foundation still exists today. At the same time he donated his extensive private library to the University of Tübingen.

Gremp was married twice: first to Anna geb. Küchlin, who died in 1538 after about two years of marriage; then he married Barbara born in Strasbourg in 1540. Münch (1522–1574). From the marriages of his six surviving daughters, Gremp had numerous descendants, while his only son Hans Ludwig died as a student in 1578.

The Grempsche Library

When it was transferred from Strasbourg to Tübingen, the Grempsche Library comprised around 2,700 volumes. In the centuries that followed, it was increased considerably by new acquisitions from the foundation's assets and in 1912 contained around 11,000 volumes from almost all subject areas. It was placed in the Tübingen University Library , but managed separately from it by a librarian appointed by the university . Her first librarian was the professor of rhetoric and logic, Georg Burckhard (1539–1607). Later the librarian also (as senior librarian) administered the holdings of the university library. For a long time the Grempsche Library was reserved for members of the Gremp family; Other Tübingen scholarship holders and university professors were given the opportunity to borrow them in individual cases. Only in the 19th century could the circle of users be expanded. When moving into the new building of the Tübingen University Library in 1912, the separation of the library holdings was abolished and the Grempsche library was fully integrated into the holdings of the university library.

The Grempsche Library is an extremely important and valuable scientific private library of the modern age with many original bindings . Its handwritten catalogs have been preserved in the holdings of the manuscript department of the university library.

Fonts

• Analysis. Resolutio Dialectica Quatuor Librorum Institutionum Imperialium. Emmel, Strasbourg 1567.
• The Chur- and Princes, also other members of the Augspurgischen Confession, of the Bapst Pii IIII, give a stately explanation of the causes. written out of the Concilium, if it was set against Trento, not to visit, not to visit, nor to visit, Gruppenbach. Tübingen 1583.
• Codicis Iustinianaei methodica tractatio. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1593.
• The sum and content of all the subordinate acts and the advice given for the meritorious Frey and Reichstätt session, status and voting issues. cit. [1615].

literature

• Hans Erich Feine: Ludwig Gremp von Freudenstein. In: Schwäbische Lebensbilder , Volume 3, Stuttgart 1942, pp. 199-218.
• Monika Hagenmaier: The model on a small scale. The Grempsche Library in Tübingen 1583–1912 (= Werkschriften of the University Archives Tübingen. Series 1, Volume 15). Attempto, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-89308-157-7 .
• Robert Scheyhing: The Gremp'sche Foundation 1584–1984. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department, Volume 103, 1986, pp. 254-262.
• Silke Schöttle, Gerd Brinkhus: … a treasure that you can't get anywhere. Considerations for the reconstruction of the library of Ludwig Gremp von Freudenstein. In: Sönke Lorenz u. a. (Ed.): The University of Tübingen between scholasticism and humanism (= Tübingen building blocks for regional history. Volume 20). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7995-5520-3 , pp. 389-402.
• Friedrich Seck: Donated books for the library. A patron of the university. Ludwig Gremp died 400 years ago. In: Tübinger Universitätszeitung , No. 11 (summer semester 1983).
• Hans Erich Feine:  Gremp von Freudenstein, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 44 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Statute of the Baron von Gremp Family Foundation. Fues, Tübingen 1889 (and later editions).
• Testament of Ludwig Gremp von Freudenstein, the legal doctor and lawyer of the city of Strasbourg from May 11th 1583. Based on the original on parchment, which is at the University of Tübingen, Schnürlen, Tübingen 1906.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Erich Feine:  Gremp von Freudenstein, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 44 f. ( Digitized version ).
2. ↑ Erected on the 16th hour after noon on December 28, 1510 ( online )
3. ^ Tübingen University Library