Peter Schott the Elder

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Peter Schott the Elder (* 1427 ; † August 8, 1504 ) was an important politician in Strasbourg in the 15th century.

He was the son of Claus Schott from Eysenrodt near Dillenburg , who owned several iron mines.

Peter Schott came to Strasbourg in 1449 and became a citizen of the city through marriage. From 1465 a member of the city government, he developed into one of the greatest statesmen in Strasbourg. He was four times (1470, 1476, 1482 and 1488) ammeister or head of the magistrate and commanded the armed forces of the Strasbourg Republic in the war against Charles the Bold .

Schott was also known as a lover of literature and art. He regularly received scholars in his home and made a donation to the cathedral library. His brother Friedrich, a sculptor, was the father of the printer Martin Schott. And it was Schott who convinced the young Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg to accept a position as a preacher in Strasbourg and to give up his life as a hermit.

He took part in the persecution and execution of the bailiff of the Burgundian pawnlands on the Upper Rhine, Peter von Hagenbach .

In 1482 he presided over the ending of the Strasbourg guild revolts and the last revision of the city constitution before 1989. The swear letter or civil oath of 1482 was a reminder of various recognized procedures by which all city officials followed each year until the French Revolution vowed obedience in 1789.

He married Susanna von Collen (or Colle). They had five children, including Peter Schott the Younger (* July 9, 1458; † 1490), lawyer, theologian and humanist in Strasbourg, and Merga (Maria) (approx. 1450-1524).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SH Scott: An old German family history. The Ancestor, 1903, accessed August 30, 2009 .
  2. ^ A b Thomas A. Brady: Protestant politics: Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) and the German Reformation. Brill, 1995, accessed August 30, 2009 .
  3. ^ SH Scott: The Schotts of Strasbourg and their press. Bibliographic Society, 1909, accessed August 30, 2009 .
  4. ^ E. Jane Dempsey Douglass: Justification in late medieval preaching: a study of John Geiler of Keisersberg. Brill, 1989, accessed August 30, 2009 .
  5. ↑ = city constitution. See also the articles Ulm and Schwörmontag , which describe a comparable situation in the city of Ulm.
  6. ^ Franklin L. Ford: Strasbourg in transition, 1648-1789. Norton, 1958, accessed August 30, 2009 .
  7. ↑ Gustav Carl Knod:  Schott, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 406 f.
  8. ^ Notes généalogiques sur une ancienne famille patricienne de Strasbourg. Bulletin pour la Société pour la conservation des monuments historiques d'Alsace, 1891, accessed August 30, 2009 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Schott, Peter the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Politician in Strasbourg
DATE OF BIRTH 1427
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1504