Michael Kochlin

Michael Köchlin (Latinized Coccinius ; * 1478 ; † after 1512 ) was a German humanist historian.

Life

Michael Köchlin enrolled at the University of Tübingen in 1490 , where he obtained a Bachelor of Artium degree in 1491 and a Master of Artium in 1494 . After that he worked as a teacher and stayed in the circle around the humanistic journalist Heinrich Bebel . Köchlin also dealt with theology and law and studied in Vienna since 1500 . There he had contact with the humanists around Conrad Celtis .

In 1502 Köchlin was back in Tübingen as a Magister regens in the Contubernium. His writing De imperii iuribus from 1503 did not get to print because its anti-clerical content met with strong opposition. In 1506 he described these events.

From the end of 1506 or beginning of 1507 Michael Köchlin was secretary to Veit von Fürst , who was the imperial governor in Modena . He later became its chancellor and wrote a four-volume work on the political events in Italy during this period. The print was published in Tübingen in 1512, after which no more information has been received about it.

Michael Köchlin is one of the most important and critical humanistic historians of his time.

literature

• Dieter Mertens : Michael Köchlin . In: Franz-Josef Worstbrock (Ed.): German Humanism 1480–1520. Author Lexicon. Volume 1. A-K. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin New York 2008. p. 12 col. 1297–1309.
• Dieter Mertens: Michael Coccinius (Köchlin) from Tübingen between university and big politics. In: Sönke Lorenz, Volker Schäfer (Eds.), Susanne Borgards (Editing): Tubingensia: Impulses for the history of the city and the university. Festschrift for Wilfried Setzler on his 65th birthday. Ostfildern 2008. pp. 165-185.
• Heinrich Grimm :  Köchlin (Coccinius), Michael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 293 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Publications by and about Michael Köchlin in VD 16 .