Nikolaus von Laun

Nikolaus von Laun (Czech Mikuláš z Loun ; Latin Nicolaus de Luna ; * around 1300 in Laun , Bohemia ; † March 26, 1371 in Regensburg ) was an Augustinian monk and provincial of the Bavarian-Bohemian order province. He was one of the first theology professors at the Charles University in Prague, founded in 1348, and from 1362 until his death in 1371 auxiliary bishop in Regensburg . He also wrote several Latin writings in the field of homiletics .

Life

Nikolaus von Laun joined the order of the Augustinian hermits in 1315 and first completed a general degree at the order's own university with St. Thomas on the Lesser Town of Prague . He then completed a degree at the University of Paris with a doctorate in theology . After returning to Prague, he worked from 1334 as a lecturer at the religious college of St. Thomas.

In the years 1342, 1344 to 1354 and 1362 to 1363 he held the office of Provincial of the Bavarian Order Province, to which the Bohemian monasteries also belonged. In this position he founded other monasteries, including in Weißwasser in northern Bohemia. Since he was committed to proselytizing in the Baltic States , Pope Clement VI. In 1345 permission to incorporate the Baltic Augustinian monasteries into his province.

Since Nicholas was in good contact with the Prague court, he gave the ceremonial speech “De pallio archiepisopi Arnesti” in 1344 on the occasion of the presentation of the pallium to the Prague Archbishop Ernst von Pardubitz . In 1347 he was given the celebratory speech on the occasion of Charles IV's coronation as King of Bohemia as "Eris corona gloriae" , which he titled "Sermo ad clerum pro eleccione regis". After Charles University was founded, he was appointed one of the first five professors in the theological faculty.

In 1362/63 Nikolaus was appointed auxiliary bishop in Regensburg and at the same time titular bishop of Castoria in Greece. From his homelite writings, parts of the Gospel of Luke with the depiction of the childhood of Jesus have been preserved under the title “Super Missus es exposicio litteralis”. His writings were likely intended for theologically educated readers.

literature

• Jana Nechutová: The Latin Literature of the Middle Ages in Bohemia . Böhlau Verlag , Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-20070-1 , pp. 271-273
• Roland Pauler:  Nikolaus von Laun. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 272 ​​f. ( Digitized version ).