Otto Ernst (Canon)

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Otto Ernst , also Otto Ernesti de Emick (* in Einbeck ; † September 21, 1495 ibid) was a German patrician, canon canon and canon lawyer.

Life

Otto Ernst came from a respected family in Einbeck, which belonged as an exclave to the Diocese of Mainz . He studied from 1458 at the Universities of Erfurt , from 1463 in Cologne , and in 1467 at the Universities of Padua and Ferrara , where he in 1467 in Ferrara in canon law Dr. decr. ( decretalium = of canon law). Ernst came to the University of Rostock in 1475 and was rector of the university from Michaelis 1476 in the winter semester 1476/1477.

In 1467 he was first mentioned in Einbeck as a canon of the collegiate monastery of St. Alexandri . In 1486 he was provided by Duke Heinrich I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg with a canonical and a preamble or vicarie at Braunschweig Cathedral . Around 1491, together with the Einbeck monastery dean Bertold Krabberod, he settled a dispute between the city of Göttingen and the Reinhausen Benedictine monastery . In the minster church of St. Alexandri in Einbeck, a rectangular brass plaque in the style of a figure grave plate with his coat of arms has been preserved, which with its dimensions of 75 × 43 × 4 cm could once have been part of a larger grave plate. Today it is placed in the choir of the cathedral church.

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literature

  • Robert Gramsch : Erfurt lawyers in the late Middle Ages: the career patterns and fields of activity of a learned elite of the 14th and 15th centuries , BRILL 2003

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enrollment entry as a graduate in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Document book of the city of Göttingen: From the years 1401 to 1500 , Volume 2, Hahn 1867, p. 373
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emick, Otto Ernesti de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German patrician, canon canon and canon lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Einbeck
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1495
Place of death Einbeck