Ortolph Fuchsberger

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Ortolph Fuchsberger (* around 1490 in Tittmoning ; † after 1541 ) was a German lawyer.

Fuchs Berger studied at the Ingolstadt University of Law . After completing his studies, he worked as a Latin professor in Altötting . It was here that it was first published in 1525 with an introduction to the Latin language .

Around 1526 he took up the position of court judge in Mondsee . In addition, Abbot Johann Hagen brought him to the Mondsee Monastery as his secretary . In the following years Fuchsberger taught logic and rhetoric at the monastery .

During his time in Mondsee, Fuchsberger published various essays in the fields of logic and law. Among other things, he published the first logic in German in 1533. The main concern here was to prove that it was even possible to argue logically consistent in the German language.

In 1539 he went to Passau as city counsel .

Works

  • Simplicissima puerulorum legere callentium in octo partes orationis tabularis introductio. Landshut 1525
  • Kurtze concluded his speech against the fall of the neo-rotten Baptist. Landshut 1528.
  • A thoroughly clear beginning of the natural and right art of the goods Dialectica. 1533
  • Justinian institutes provided interpreting. Augsburg 1535, 1536, Ingolstadt 1541.
  • Teutscher Jura regulae. Augsburg 1538

Individual evidence

  1. The spelling "Fuchsperger" is also in use
  2. Cf. Volkhard Wels: Humanist Ars and German language in Ortholph Fuchsperger's "Dialectica deutsch" (1533).