Ludwig Truchsess from Höfingen

Ludwig Steward of Höfingen (* around 1448 / 1450 probably in Höfingen ; † 15. January 1518 in Tübingen ) was a doctor of canon law and German jurist from an in Höfingen in since 1285 Leonberg -based Wuerttemberg local noble family, the extinct 1699th He was one of the first law professors at the University of Tübingen , founded in 1477 , was rector of this university in 1479 and served as a councilor for Duke Eberhard I in the beard of Württemberg. Another member of the family, Wilhelm Truchsess von Höfingen , was demonstrably in the Württemberg service in 1481 and 1483. Other members of the family later became canons of the important cathedral monastery in Augsburg .

Life

Ludwig Truchsess von Höfingen was a son of Martin Truchsess von Höfingen zu Riet and his wife Margarete Späth. At the age of around 15 he began his studies in the summer semester of 1464 at the Artistic Faculty of the University of Erfurt , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1466 and his master's degree in 1470 . He then studied Legal Profession at the University of Pavia , where he in 1472 the promotion of the Nuremberg humanist John Wooden spoon for licentiate in civil law and in 1474 the promotion of John Gügel attended the licentiate in canon law as a witness. Presumably he also obtained his doctorate in canon law in Pavia , with which he appears in the register of the University of Tübingen in September 1477 in the series of personalities highlighted at the beginning of the entries.

For the summer semester of 1479 Truchsess von Höfingen was elected rector of the University of Tübingen and was part of the consilium universitatis when the Second Tübingen University Regulations were published in 1491/1492 . For this reason and because of his position as dean of the Faculty of Law when the faculty report of the Faculty of Law was signed on December 11, 1495, it can be concluded that he was one of the first law professors in Tübingen since the university was founded in 1477. Since nobles at that time generally saw it as not befitting to be examined by members of the lower classes and to take up a teaching post at a university, Ludwig Truchsess von Höfingen's special proximity of his noble family to the Württemberg court comes from its close connection to the university to expression.

As a member of the nobility in the Neckarviertel, strongly courted by Count Eberhard im Bart, which had organized itself under the Georgenschild umbrella company since 1488 and Ludwig Truchsess von Höfingen is among its committee members, this was one of the Württemberg-oriented aristocratic families in the region 1450s contributed significantly to the stabilization of the count's rule in the Württemberg territory. In the entourage of Count Eberhard im Bart, he took part in the Worms Reichstag of 1495 among his learned councilors , at which the Count was made Duke of Württemberg. He probably already held the position of council when the University of Tübingen was founded in 1477.

At the presentation of Eberhard in the beard, he was given the parish Veringendorf in the deanery in Riedlingen in 1481 , but had to resign it after a few months because of his first marriage to Ursula Schenk von Stauffenberg . In his second marriage he married Anna Herter von Herteneck , with whom he had the children Hans, Anna and Katharina. A gate inscription from 1490 that is still preserved today attests to the owner of a house in Münzgasse in Tübingen, now number 18.

After the death of Eberhard im Bart in February 1496, Truchsess von Höfingen left Tübingen for a short time, but had himself entered a second time in the register of the University of Tübingen on October 13, 1497, probably only to secure his academic privileges. His stopover is not known. During this period he is often confused with the Chancellor Otto II von Mosbach , Ludwig Truchsess zu Grünsberg , who also took part in the Worms Reichstag of 1495.

Ludwig Truchsess von Höfingen can no longer be found among the Tübingen law professors of the later period. He also no longer appears in political matters. His fortune enabled him to grant the sovereign a large loan, for which he received the high amount of 250 guilders in 1509.

Ludwig Truchsess von Höfingen died on January 15, 1518. His fortune became the subject of a lawsuit between his heirs due to different regulations for university citizens and citizens of the city. As a result, on February 26, 1518, the University of Tübingen was forced to issue new regulations for the estate of university citizens.

literature

• Robert Gramsch: Erfurt lawyers in the late Middle Ages. The career patterns and fields of activity of a learned elite of the 14th and 15th centuries (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Volume 17). Brill, Leiden 2003, ISBN 90-04-13178-7 , p. 1892, no.642.
• Sönke Lorenz: Eberhard im Bart and his university. An introduction in: Tübingen in research and teaching around 1500. On the history of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , ed. by Sönke Lorenz, Dieter Bauer and Oliver Auge (Tübingen Building Blocks for Regional History, Volume 9). Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7995-5509-8 , pp. 1–59, especially p. 47 with note 398–402.
• Karl Konrad Finke: Ludwig Truchsess von Höfingen (before 1458 to 1518) , in: The professors of the Tübingen Faculty of Law (1477-1535) , edited by Karl Konrad Finke (Tübingen professor catalog, volume 1,2). Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-5452-7 , pp. 316–321.