Nicholas II. Sachau

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Nikolaus Sachau (also: Nicolaus Sachow, Czachow ; * around 1385 in Lübeck ; † October 11, 1449 ibid) was a German legal scholar and, as Nikolaus II. From 1439 to 1449, Bishop of Lübeck .

Life

Sachau had completed his studies in Italy as a cleric from Lübeck, where we find him on April 14, 1411 at the University of Bologna . In Italy he had apparently also obtained a master's degree and a baccalaureate in spiritual law. Returning to his homeland, he seems to have received a vicarie that was connected to the parish of St. George in Genin . It was in 1421 provost at the Schleswig Cathedral . 1437 is he as Domdekan at the Lübeck cathedral chapter , as well as its Scholaster proven. After serving as Vicar General of the Bishop of Lübeck in 1438 , he was elected Bishop of Lübeck on October 24, 1439. On November 7, 1439, he received papal confirmation, and on January 16, 1440, he was ordained bishop by Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen Baldwin II von Wenden .

He was a man of knowledge, a bright mind, and some other good qualities. The former spokesman for the German nation at the Council of Basel (May 7, 1437) is viewed by historians as far-sighted. During his reign he put 4,000 marks Lübisch from his own funds on pensions for the benefit of the poor, had the already completely dilapidated infirmary in Schwartau and Oldenburg in Holstein repaired at his own expense and gave the poor there an annual alms.

He enlarged the bishop's seat, which was once built by Bishop Heinrich II Bochholt in Lübeck, with a side wing, in which various rooms and a house chapel were laid out, as this has also been provided with a few outbuildings. In his residence in Eutin he had various buildings built at great expense, he also increased the episcopal table goods by purchasing the village of Klenzau for 1,100 marks Lübisch, together with the Rikenbeke farm and lands on the Krummsee for 900 marks Lübisch and some lands from the Carthusian monastery Ahrensbök for 1000 Marks Lübisch.

As an accomplished legal scholar, he has settled many differences through arbitration awards. A year before his death he was elected Archbishop of Riga by the cathedral chapter in Riga as successor to Henning Scharpenberg , but he refused the appointment and Silvester Stodewescher , favored by the Teutonic Order , prevailed as Scharpenberg's successor. Bishop Sachau donated some legacies in his will, increased the episcopal table goods and left his successors a not insignificant library on secular and canon law.

Bishop Sachau was buried in the Marientiden Chapel of Lübeck Cathedral, east of the choir, which had been recently created from the estate of Provost Bertold Dives († 1436 in Mecklenburg captivity) .

Works

  • Lectura super Decretalibus
  • Consiliorum diversorum volume ingens.

literature

  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, p. 90. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
  • Ludwig Kohli: Handbook of a historical-statistical-geographical description of the Duchy of Oldenburg, including the inheritance of Jever and the two principalities of Lübeck and Birkenfeld. Bremen 1826, Volume 2, p. 69
  • Johann Rudolph Becker : Cumbersome history of the imperial and the salvation. Roman Empire freyen city of Lübeck. Printed by Georg Christian Green, Lübeck, 1782, p. 382 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knod: German students in Bologna (1289-1562): Biographical Index of the Acta Universitatis nationis germanicae Bononiensis
  2. ^ M. Niemeyer: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries. 1998, Vol. 78, p. 282
  3. ^ Friedrich Techen : Document book of the city of Lübeck: 1139-1470. Vol. 6, p. 373
  4. ^ Muter: On the history of the sources of German law. In: Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte 4, p. 388
  5. ↑ Baltzer, Bruns (1920), p. 90, with reference to the register of memories: sepultus in capella horarum b. [Eatae] Virginis ... , and the chronicle of the council syndicate Arnold Sommernad (1452)
predecessor Office successor
Johannes Schele Bishop of Lübeck
1420 - 1449 		Arnold Westphal
personal data
SURNAME Sachau, Nicholas II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sachau, Nikolaus; Sachow, Nicolaus; Czachow, Nikolaus; Nicholas II
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and Bishop of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH around 1385
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1449
Place of death Lübeck