Peter Cyro

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Peter Cyro (* around 1495 in Freiburg im Üechtland ; † July 22, 1564 in Bern ) was a Swiss lawyer and politician.

Life

Peter Cyro was the son of the Freiburg councilor Richard Giro and was therefore also called Petrus Ricardi . In 1514 he began studying law on a scholarship, initially at the University of Basel , then, with the support of the Freiburg notary Peter Falck , went to the University of Pavia , where he received his master's degree ; later he attended the University of Paris , where he attended Glarean lectures . In 1520 he was on a diplomatic mission to Friborg and Bern in Rome at the Holy See . From 1525 to 1561 he worked as a town clerk in Bern and was a member of the Bernese Grand Council from 1526 . In 1533 he reorganized the Bern chancellery and revised the archive. On behalf of the Bernese Council, he carried out around 50 diplomatic missions. Peter Cyro was married to Anna in his first marriage from 1525, his second marriage from 1545 to Katharina (née Zumbach) and from 1553 in his third marriage to Margaretha (née Schwinkhart); his brother-in-law was the Bernese Grand Councilor Ludwig Schwinkhart (1495–1522). From the first marriage he had three sons and three daughters and from the second marriage a son. In 1529 he acquired the eastern half of the building at Gerechtigkeitsgasse 71 in Bern from the vom Stein family . He had the house rebuilt in 1554 with considerable contributions from the city. At that time, diagonally across from him at Gerechtigkeitsgasse 72, lived the artist and politician Niklaus Manuel , with whom he promoted the Reformation in Bern. In 1564 he died of the plague . After his death, the dean of Bern, Johannes Haller, called him a vir doctus et integer in a letter to Antistes Heinrich Bullinger in Zurich .

Reformation work

Peter Cyro took part in the Bern disputation from January 6th to 26th, 1528, as a result of which Bern introduced the Reformation ; his notes are the only direct information that has been handed down in minutes from the disputation. As a follower of Huldrych Zwingli, Peter Cyro supported the Reformation and in 1536, under the Supreme Captain Hans Franz Nägeli , was significantly involved in the conquest of the Vaud , where the Reformation was introduced in 1526 by Guillaume Farel and Pierre Viret . He was then from October 1 to 8, 1536, alongside Niklaus von Wattenwyl , Peter Fabri and Girard Grand, one of the chairmen of the Lausanne disputation, which was held on the orders of Bern and on the Protestant side of Guillaume Farel, Johannes Calvin and Pierre Caroli (1480–1545) was represented. At Christmas of the same year, the Catholic cult was abolished and Pierre Caroli (1480–1550) was appointed Protestant pastor. In 1537 he enforced the Edict of the Reformation in the canton, and the Académie de Lausanne was founded as the first Protestant university in the French-speaking area to train pastors and soon had over 700 students.

literature

  • Mathias Sulser: The town clerk Peter Cyro and the Bernese Chancellery at the time of the Reformation , Bern 1922.
  • Hans Rudolf Lavater: "Peter C.", in Der Berner Synodus from 1532 , vol. 2, ed. by GW Locher, 1988, 370-374.
  • Peter Cyro . In: General Eydgenössisches or Schweitzerisches Lexicon , Volume 5. Zurich 1751. S. 543.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ferdinand Elsener: Notaries and town clerks: On the history of the Swiss notary's office . S. 37. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-663-02798-0 ( google.de [accessed on November 16, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Schwinkhart, Ludwig. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Bernese families - persons. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  4. ^ Berchtold Weber: Historisch-Topographisches Lexikon der Stadt Bern. Berner Burgerbibliothek, Bern, 1976, accessed on November 16, 2019 .
  5. ^ Descriptor. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Barbara Büttner-Journal B: The colorful life in the old town cellars. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  7. ^ Leonhard von Muralt, Martin Haas: Sources for the history of the Anabaptists in Switzerland . S. 184. Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 1952, ISBN 978-3-290-17319-7 ( google.de [accessed on November 16, 2019]).
  8. ^ Rudolf Emanuel Stierlin : Brief history of the church improvement in Bern . 131. LA Haller, 1828 ( google.de [accessed November 16, 2019]).
  9. ^ Samuel Fischer: History of the Disputation and Reformation in Bern . P. 509. CA Jenni, 1828 ( google.de [accessed November 16, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Caroli, Pierre. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Lausanne | Reformation cities of Europe. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cyro, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zyro, Peter; Ricardi, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1495
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Üechtland
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1564
Place of death Bern