Martin Fuhrmann

Martin Fuhrmann (* around 1450 in Konitz in the Teutonic Order ; † October 2, 1503 in Leipzig ), also Martin Conitzer , sometimes also called Martin von Conitz , was a German philologist , theologian , university professor and founder of a scholarship foundation.

life and career

Fuhrmann enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1468 , where he studied languages, the fine arts as well as theology and philosophy . In Leipzig he had obtained a bachelor's degree in the summer semester of 1469 and a master's degree in philosophical sciences in the winter semester of 1474 . At that time, the obligation to give lectures at the university was tied to this. Obviously he had done so well that in 1480 he was accepted into the Senate of the Philosophical Faculty.

After completing his studies, he held various academic positions at the University of Leipzig. In 1480 and 1489 he was rector of the alma mater and in 1483 dean of the artist faculty . After he had acquired the Baccalaurat as senetatius of theology in 1482, he was also licentiate in 1494 . Before 1499 he had earned a doctorate in theology. He was also canon of Zeitz and Merseburg . In his will he donated the so-called Fuhrmannianum scholarship , which was awarded to students from his hometown of Konitz.

References

• Old Prussian Biography ( Christian Krollmann , ed.), Volume 1, 1941.
• Johann Daniel Titius and Isaac Gottfried Goedtke : Message from the scholars who came from the city of Conitz in Polish Prussia , Leipzig 1736, pp. 8-9 .
• Markus Cottin and Beate Kusche: Between university and monastery - the career of the Prussian Martin Fuhrmann in Central Germany (1468 1509) . In: New Archive for Saxon History, Volume 74/75, 2003/2004, pp. 21–52.
• Georg Erler: The register of the University of Leipzig. Leipzig, 1895