Melchior Goldast

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Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld (born January 6, 1578 on the family estate Espen, today part of Bischofszell ; † August 11, 1635 in Gießen ) was a Swiss humanist , lawyer, diplomat and bibliomaniac .

Life

Melchior's father was a noble landowner. Goldast attended the gymnasium in Memmingen from 1590 to 1593 . From 1593 he studied law at the Jesuit University in Ingolstadt and from 1595 at the University in Altdorf . Here he obtained his master's degree in 1597 . In 1598 he was a private scholar in Switzerland, including in St. Gallen and Geneva . In 1599 he stayed in St. Gallen and did research in the abbey library . He received his PhD then at the University of Heidelberg for both rights Doctor .

In the period around 1600 he dealt intensively with the literature of the Middle Ages, especially the Codex Manesse . Goldast made extensive notes on the manuscript, quoted and edited it in parts in his printed works and made it known to a wider public for the first time.

In 1609 Melchior Goldast applied to Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg for the vacant position of the abbot of the Schlüchtern monastery . However, the count pursued a strictly reformed church policy, so that the continuation of a monastery no longer seemed opportune to him. He did not fill the position again, but gave Melchior Goldast the honorary title of councilor. Melchior Goldast was educator of Baron von Hohensax from 1606 to 1614 and lived in Frankfurt am Main . Here he wrote historical and legal reports, especially on constitutional problems. Around 1606 he met the historian Michael Caspar Lundorp , with whom he worked together on an edition of Petronius . In 1612 he married. In 1614 he was a brief advisor at the court of Saxe-Weimar . In 1615 he became a councilor and legal advisor at the court in Bückeburg . From 1624 he lived again in Frankfurt / Main. He now worked for the Landgrave of Hesse . In 1630 he moved to Giessen.

In 1631 the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith put all of his works on the index .

His library

Goldast had a very strong passion for books and manuscripts. In his library there were many writings from the library in St. Gallen, which he had stolen from there, among other places. The book lover tried to secure his library in Bremen in 1624 . It was stored in the Katharinenkloster in Bremen . After Goldast's death, the Bremen City Council negotiated with the heirs about the whereabouts and purchase of the books for Bremen. In 1646 the negotiations came to an end and Bremen had the basis for its public city ​​library , the Bibliotheka Bremensis , which opened in 1660 and consists of manuscripts , documents and incunabula from the early days of book printing that are valuable today . One of the most important books is the preserved pericopes of Henry III, created in the Echternach monastery . , which is now in the State and University Library Bremen . In 1650 , Queen Christine of Sweden requested and received some valuable books, including by ancient authors, through her advice Isaac Vossius (1618–1689) . A small part of the estate, including 41 parchment documents and 98 humanist letters, returned to St. Gallen in 1948.

Works

  • Suevicarum rerum, scriptores aliquot veteres . Frankfurt / M. 1605
  • Alamannicarum rerum scriptores aliquot vetusti . Frankfurt / M. 1605
  • Catholicon rei monetariae . Frankfurt / M. 1620

literature

  • Anne A. Baade: Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld , 1992
  • Gundula Caspary: Late Humanism and Imperial Patriotism. Melchior Goldast and his editions on the history of the imperial constitution. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-35584-X
  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld . In: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 3. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9105-6 , pp. 1653–1679.
  • Graeme Dunphy: Melchior Goldast and Martin Opitz . Humanistic mediaeval reception around 1600 . In: Nicola McLelland, Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Stefanie Schmitt: Humanism in the German literature of the Middle Ages and the early modern period . Niemeyer, 2008, pp. 105-121.
  • Rudolf Gamper: The book thefts of Melchior Goldast in Sankt Gallen . In: Marcel Mayer, Stefan Sonderegger (eds.): Reading - Writing - Printing , Sankt Gallen 2003, pp. 73–88, pp. 144–147.
  • Heinrich Schecker : Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld, a study . Bremen 1930.
  • Clausdieter Schott : "Eberingen" - The first certificate . In: Clausdieter Schott, Edmund Weeger (Hrsg.): Ezüge - Herrschaft und Gemeinde , Vol. 1, Freiburg 1992, p. 47 f.
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  • Oskar Vasella :  Goldast, called von Haiminsfeld, Melchior. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 601 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Melchior Goldast  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Wolbring: Melchior Goldast and the ›Codex Manesse‹: With special consideration of ›Hypomnemata in aulicorum Poetarum Carmina amatoria‹ . 2019, doi : 10.17885 / HEIUP.576 ( uni-heidelberg.de [accessed on July 8, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Matthias Nistahl: Studies in the History of the monastery Schlüchtern in the Middle Ages . Diss. Darmstadt a. Marburg, 1986, p. 201.
  3. ↑ Goldast, Melchior of Haimensfeld. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 394 (French, digitized ).
personal data
SURNAME Golden branch, Melchior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gold branch from Haiminsfeld, Melchior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss humanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1578
PLACE OF BIRTH Bischofszell
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1635
Place of death to water