Margarete Peutinger

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Margaritae Vvelserae Chvonradii Pevtingeri: Portrait by Christoph Amberger 1543

Margarete Peutinger (born March 14, 1481 in Memmingen as Margarete Welser, died 1552 in Augsburg ) was a humanist , descendant of the Welser trading house and wife of Konrad Peutinger , who also published a book on ancient Roman numismatics .

Life

She was the daughter of Anton I. Welser and his wife Catharina, born Vöhlin. She was the older sister of Bartholomäus V. Welser . On December 27, 1499, Margarete married Konrad Peutinger, with whom she had a marriage for 48 years, which contemporaries idealized as exemplary. She brought considerable fortune into the marriage as a dowry.

Learned works

Margarete was a highly educated woman and, like her husband, was humanistic; a quality that he praised in letters to contemporaries, as he had won such a supporter and partisan. In this way he hoped to contribute to a humanistic women's culture similar to that in Italy. Accordingly, he encouraged her to the best of his ability and gave her her own desk in the study. In a letter to Erasmus von Rotterdam he reported on her text-critical, multilingual study of his Bible exegesis.

Margarete's erudition, her joy in studying and passing on science to the children of the family has been honored several times by the German humanistic society, for example by Ulrich von Hutten, Michael Hummelberger and Sixtus Birck . On the other hand, Hieronymus Emser portrayed a humanist woman in his Eyn deutsche Satyra in 1505 , who studies with her husband by holding out a candle to him at night, with little friendliness. Margarete herself replied that the candles were hung up or put down in her household and that people read and write together. So she helped Konrad with the writing of the Inscriptiones romanae , while he supported her with a treatise on the interpretation of ancient Roman imperial coins. Konrad proudly sent her manuscript to Hummelberger in 1512, it has been preserved in fragments. In the 20th century, Paul Joachimsen described the treatise as a fake to pretend that Konrad Peutinger's wife was a false scholar; For the befriended contemporaries of the Peutingers, however, the share of authorship in their appreciation of Margarete's achievement was rather insignificant.

  • Margaritae Velseriae, Conradi Peutingeri Conjugis: ad Christophorum fratrem epistola multa rerum antiquarum cognitone insignis. Quam primus typis exscribendam curavit HA Mertens. Augustae Vindelicorum 1778, 8 °.

progeny

The couple had ten children:

  • Juliana Peutinger (1500–1506)
  • Constantia Peutinger (1503-1546)
  • Claudius Pius Peutinger (October 28, 1509–1552)
  • Christoph Peutinger (1511–11 April 1576)
  • Chrisostomus Peutinger (1512–1577)
  • Johann Chrisostomus Peutinger (1513; date of death unknown)
  • Carl Peutinger (1515–1564)
  • Conrad Pius Peutinger (1520-1613)
  • (two more died early)

The couple also raised their children in a humanistic sense. Their eldest daughter Juliana greeted Maximilian I in 1504 at the age of four in perfect Latin - a not uncommon notion of local child prodigies in Italy, but a novelty in Germany. Juliana died as a child. The younger daughter Constantia (Konstanze) was praised by Ulrich von Hutten as the “most beautiful and virtuous of all Augsburg virgins” and was allowed to wind the laurel crown with which Hutten was crowned poet prince on July 12, 1517. In 1525 Konstanze married the knight Melchior Soiter von Windach , chancellor of the Count Palatine Frederick II. The eldest son Claudius Pius embarked on a legal career, the younger son Christoph became the council chairman and mayor of Augsburg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ursula Hess: Latin dialogue and learned partnership. Women as humanistic models in Germany (1500-1550). In: Gisela Brinker-Gabler (Ed.), German Literature by Women , Volume 1, Darmstadt / Munich 1988. ISBN 3406331181 . Pp. 127-137
  2. ^ A b Hermann Arthur Lier : Peutinger, Conrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 25 (1887), pp. 561-568
  3. ↑ Konrad Peutinger spoke openly of nostro auxilio , which he had granted his wife while writing.
  4. ↑ Ursula Köhler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women , Bonn 2000, p. 278 ISBN 3-8012-0276-3
  5. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 373

literature

  • Elisabeth Plößl: Margarete Peutinger: (1481 - 1552); Scholarly wife of a humanist . In: Bavarias Töchter pp. 72-75 (1997)
personal data
SURNAME Peutinger, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welser, Margarete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist; Wife of Konrad Peutinger
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1481
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmingen
DATE OF DEATH 1552
Place of death augsburg