Matthäus von Pappenheim
Matthäus (Marschalk) von Pappenheim (born July 1, 1458 in Biberbach , † October 14, 1541 in Druisheim ) was a German humanist, historian, genealogist and canon.
Life
Matthäus von Pappenheim comes from the Biberbach line of the Swabian-Franconian line of the von Pappenheim family . The family is also known as Marschalk or Marschall von Pappenheim . His parents were Ulrich Marschall and Mr. zu Biberbach and Anna von Schwabsberg. In 1482 he obtained a doctorate in Canon Law from the University of Perugia . Afterwards he was provost in St. Gertraud in Augsburg in 1492, from 1493 canon at the Augsburg Cathedral and in 1496 canon at the monastery in Ellwangen.
He moved in humanistic circles and was in contact with Konrad Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , the Augsburg humanist Konrad Peutinger , the Ingolstadt theologian Dr. Johannes Eck and the Bavarian historian Johannes Aventinus .
His best-known work was the Chronicle of the Truchsessen von Waldburg , from which numerous manuscripts were produced. He is considered to be one of "the founders of modern genealogy in Germany".
Works
- Johann von Pappenheim (ed.): De origine et familia illustrium dominorum de Calatin, qui hodie sunt domini a Pappenheim, SR Imp. Marescalci haereditarii . including a German translation. Philip Ulhardt, Augsburg 1554 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- Chronicle of the Truchsessen von Waldburg . 2 volumes, Memmingen 1777–1785.
literature
- Wilhelm Vogt: Pappenheim, Matthäus von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 161 f.
- Georg Kreuzer: Pappenheim, Matthäus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 50 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Klaus Graf : Matthäus Marschalk von Pappenheim. In: Franz Josef Worstbrock (Ed.): German Humanism 1480–1520. Author Lexicon. Volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin + New York 2009-2013, ISBN 978-3-11-022595-2 , Sp. 204-209. ( Online )
- Thomas Schauerte: Matthäus von Pappenheim (1458–1541). Life and work of an Augsburg humanist. With a transcription of the Wolfenbüttel Habsburg genealogy from 1526 . wek-Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-934145-66-5 ( review ).
- Thomas Schauerte : Pappenheim, Matthäus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 989-990.
Web links
- Works by and about Matthäus von Pappenheim in the German Digital Library
- Lützelhardt legend (see also Grüselhorn )
Individual evidence
- ↑ To this Gerhard Wolf: From the chronicle to the world book. Sense and claim of southwest German house chronicles at the end of the Middle Ages . De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2002 (with a chapter on the “Truchsessen Chronik”).
- ^ Graf: Marschalk von Pappenheim, Matthäus , 2009, Col. 205.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pappenheim, Matthäus von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German canon and humanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1458 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biberbach (Swabia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1541 |
| Place of death | Druisheim |