Nikolaus Türkow

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Nikolaus Türkow (* in Rostock ; † 1421 or later) was a German lawyer and council secretary of the Hanseatic city of Rostock.

Life

Nikolaus Türkow came from a wealthy, seal-bearing Rostock family. He studied law at the University of Prague from 1404 and was probably already holding a master's degree in 1407 . Türkow was Protonotarius in 1410 , the first council clerk in Rostock. In 1411 he became vicar with a benefice at the Katharinen altar of the Nikolaikirche . In 1415 he was a representative of the city of Rostock at the Council of Constance . In 1419 he was official of the bishop of Schwerin Heinrich III. von Wangelin and Pleban at the Marienkirche .

Seal of the University of Rostock from 1419

On November 12, 1419, Petrus Stenbeke was appointed by a committee consisting of Hermann Bokholt , abbot of Doberan Monastery , the Rostock archdeacon Johannes Meynesti , the pastor of St. Marien in Rostock Nikolaus Türkow and the Rostock mayor Hinrich Katzow under the direction of the Schwerin bishop Heinrich III . appointed founding rector of the University of Rostock . In the Rostock register it is in eighth position among the first entries.

In 1421, Türkow donated pension income of 50 marks to pay for a professorship in the Rostock Artistic Faculty (Professio Turkowiana).

literature

  • Stephanie Irrgang: Peregrinatio academica , Stuttgart 2002, p. 215
  • Marko A. Pluns: The University of Rostock 1418-1563. A university in the area of ​​tension between the city, sovereign rulers and Wendish Hanseatic cities , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007 (= sources and representations on Hanseatic history, published by the Hanseatic History Association, New Series / Volume LVIII), pp. 38/39

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Wilhelm August Balck : Meklenburger on foreign universities up to the middle of the 17th century (third contribution), In: Year books of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity , Volume 50 (1885), pp. 343–382
  2. ^ Johannes Meynesti in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Nikolaus Türkow in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Türkow, Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Council Secretary of the Hanseatic City of Rostock
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH after 1421