Peter Anton from Clapis

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Book dedication to Elector Friedrich I of the Palatinate, 1464
Family coat of arms from the book dedication to Elector Friedrich I of the Palatinate

Peter Anton von Clapis (* around 1440 in Finale Ligure , Italy; † May 14, 1512 in Cologne ) was a noble Catholic priest, humanist , canon in Worms and Speyer and chancellor of Heidelberg University .

Live and act

He came from the Italian noble family de Clapis and was a student of the humanist Francesco Filelfo . Peter Anton von Clapis, who often called himself Peter Anton Finariensis after his hometown , taught at the universities of Dole and Basel (1465).

From 1465, Clapis played a leading role in the circle of humanistic scholars at the court of the Palatinate Elector Friedrich I in Heidelberg and thus played an essential role in the spread of humanism in Germany . He dedicated a.o. a. 1464 his writing “Dialogus de dignitate principum” with a magnificent page dedicated to the prince, which also shows his own family coat of arms. It is now in the Vatican Library as Codex Palatina latinus 1378 . The Italian also acted several times as the ruler of the Palatinate's envoy to the Pope and as the bearer of papal messages to Germany.

As early as 1470 Clapis became provost of the Andreasstift in Worms . In 1473, as a doctor legum and canon at St. Maria ad Gradus (Mainz), he received an annual pension from the St. Georgenberg monastery in Pfeddersheim . In September 1474, Peter Anton von Clapis was ordained a priest in Rome , having previously only had minor orders . On May 20 of the same year he became the capitular at Speyer Cathedral , and on November 10, 1474 he was promoted to the position of cathedral cantor . From 1487 held by Clapis the office of Worms cathedral dean and served simultaneously as chancellor of the University of Heidelberg, for which he cared eagerly. In addition, he was canon of St. Stephen in Mainz , apostolic protonotary and a benefactor of the Mainz cathedral .

In old age the priest lived as provost of St. Maria ad Gradus in Cologne, where he also died in 1512. This is probably due to the fact that another Peter von Clapis (* approx. 1480, † 1551) worked as a law professor at the university there, who was related to him (possibly his nephew). He carried the same family coat of arms that Peter Anton von Clapis used in 1464 on his dedication page to Elector Friedrich von der Pfalz, and also founded an annual funeral mass for him. The younger Peter von Clapis promoted the painter Bartholomäus Bruyn , who often portrayed him or made paintings on his behalf.

Peter Anton von Clapis is entered in the Seelbuch of the Speyer Cathedral with a memorial for the year.

literature

  • Veit Probst : Petrus Antonius de Clapis: (approx. 1440–1512); an Italian humanist in the service of Friedrich the Victorious of the Palatinate , Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn, 1989, ISBN 3-506-79330-6
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann, Achim Aurnhammer: Killy Literature Lexicon , Volume 2, Page 436, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2008, ISBN 3110209349 ; Digital scan
  • Gerhard Ritter: Petrus Antonius Finariensis, the successor to Peter Luders . In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 26 (1936), pp. 89-103.
  • Konrad von Busch and Franz Xaver Glasschröder : Choir Rules and Younger Sea Book of the Old Speyer Cathedral Chapter , Speyer 1923, pages 254 and 255

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website for the Codex Palatina latinus 1378
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Hautz: History of the University of Heidelberg , Volume 1, Mannheim, 1862, page 146; Digital scan
  3. ^ Hubert Graven: The old Cologne University and the art , 1935, page 24; Excerpt from the source
  4. ↑ Isabelle Kirgus: Renaissance Cologne: architecture and equipment 1520-1620 , Bouvier Verlag, 2000, page 234, ISBN 3416029399 ; 1. Section from the source , 2. Section from the source
  5. ^ Website of Peter von Clapis the Younger, with a picture of his coat of arms
  6. ^ Johann Jakob Merlo : Peter von Clapis , in: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine , Volume 18, Cologne, 1867, page 10; Digital scan
  7. ↑ Website with the most famous of the portraits
personal data
SURNAME Clapis, Peter Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clapis, Peter Anton de; Clapis, Petrus Antonius de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian humanist and canon in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH around 1440
PLACE OF BIRTH Finale Ligure , Italy
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1512
Place of death Cologne