Petrus Pherndorphius

Petrus Pherndorphius , Pherntorf or Peter Segenensis (* before 1480 in Ferndorf or Siegen ; † before 1547 in Nancy ) was a German humanist and educator .

Life

Peter Pherndorf was the educator (" institute ") of the later humanistic theologian, statesman, natural scientist and chancellor of the University of Cologne, Count Hermann von Neuenahr (1492–1530), who began studying at the university in 1504 at the age of about twelve.

From around 1520/22 Pherndorf was a colleague or successor of Johannes Rivius (1500–1553) school teacher at the Latin school of the St. Maria ad Gradus monastery in Cologne . In 1522 he dedicated a cantilena to the Dillenburg pastor Heilmann Bruchhausen called Krombach († 1540), who became court chaplain of Count Wilhelm von Nassau-Dillenburg in 1529 . In December 1523, Magister Petrus Segenensis spoke at the quodlibetic disputation week of the artist faculty of the University of Cologne on the subject of De tribus linguis , d. H. about teaching in the three languages Latin , Greek and Hebrew according to the educational ideal of the humanists.

Pherndorf published various cantilenas for school use, poems and adaptations of psalms. An introduction to Latin grammar was published after his death by the Aachen Ludimoderator (teacher) Goswin Roscius († after 1564).

Towards the end of his life, Peter Pherndorf was called to the court of the Duchy of Lorraine in Nancy, presumably as tutor to Charles III. of Lorraine (1543–1608). There he was murdered after a letter from Petrus Medmann , a council from Cologne's Archbishop Hermann von Wied , to Heinrich Bullinger , who had studied in Cologne:

“ Peter, of whom you write, who taught the youth at the so-called 'Mariengraden', was an excellent and highly learned man and one who opened the eyes of many in Cologne and in the Jülich region . I had an extremely pleasant and amiable teacher in him, which I can still prove with countless letters today. Certainly I have never had a more intimate friend in anyone. The Lorraine court snatched him from us, where he was stabbed by a Frenchman. "

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Johannes Phryssemius : 1522. Novus decanatus - Determinatorum nomina (1522) / Johann Volscius von Lünen: Determinatorum nomina et argumenta (1523). In: Carl Krafft: Messages from the history of the Lower Rhine Reformation . In: Zeitschrift des Bergisches Geschichtsverein 6 (1869), pp. 193–340, esp. Pp. 215 and 216f ( Google Books ) = Carl Krafft: Notes by the Swiss reformer Heinrich Bullinger on his studies in Emmerich and Cologne (1516–1522 ) . Lucas, Elberfeld 1870, pp. 20–23 and 23–25, esp. Pp. 23 and 24f ( Google Books )
Letter from Petrus Medmann in Cologne to Heinrich Bullinger in Zurich on January 20, 1547; Zurich State Archives (E II 441, 706–709; E II 335, sheet 124). In: Jacques Vincent Pollet (arr.): Martin Bucer. Études sur les relations de Bucer avec les Pays-Bas, l'électorat de Cologne et l'Allemagne du Nord avec de nombreux textes inédits , Vol. II Documents . (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 34). Brill, Leiden 1985, pp. 171–179, esp. Pp. 178f ( Google Books and Google Books ; limited preview)
Konrad Heresbach : De Educandis Erudiendisque Principum Liberis . Georg Corvinus, Hieronymus Feyerabend, Frankfurt am Main 1570, sheet 21 ( Google Books ); 2nd edition Johann Feyerabend, Sigismund Feyerabend, Frankfurt am Main 1592, p. 36 ( digitized version of the University of Mannheim)

Works

Naenia de pvero Iesv . Pro Cantilena Scholastico [rum] Ad Gradus Mariae. Konrad Caesar, Cologne undated [around 1520]
(lost) Paean virgini matri canendus . Pro cantilena scholasticorum ad Gradus Mariae, o.O. 1522
(uncertain) De huius seculi moribus Cantilena scholasticorum ad Gradus Mariae. Veritas odium parit , o. O. 1523
Dedication poem Sunt animae morbi, sunt corporis , In: Hermann von Neuenahr (ed.): De novo hactenvsque Germaniae inavdito morbo ἱδροπυρετοῦ, hoc est sudatoria febri, quem uulgo sudorem Britannicum uocant . Generosi Hermanni à Nuenare comitis, Præpositi Colonien [sis] Simonisque Riquini Medicæ rei expertissimi iudicium doctissimum, duabus epistolis contentum, dedication poem by Petrus Pherndorphius. [Johannes] Soter, Cologne 1529 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
- (Reprint) Generosi Hermanni A Nvenare Comitis Περὶ τοῦ ἱδροπυρετοῦ, id est sudatoria febri . In: Guglielmo Grataroli (ed.): Clariss [imi] Philosophi Et Medici Petri De Abano De Venenis eorumq [ue] remedijs. Item… . Omnia Opera D. Guilielmi Gratoroli ex manu scriptis exemplaribus collata aucta atque illustrata. s. n. [Peter Perna?], undated [Basel] undated [1531]
Psalms I, VI, X, XII, XXII, XXIIII, XXXI, L, CXI, CXIII, CXXVI and CXXIX. In: Psalmi Omnivm Selectissimi, adflictis conscientijs, ac Deum inuocantibus, non uulgariter utiteles , Latino carmine redditi per Doctiss. uiros, ac Dominos D. Hermannum Nouae Aquilae Comitem, Philippum Melanchthonem , Helium Eobanum Hessum , Iacobum Micyllum , Vincentium Obsopoeum , Petrum Pherntorphium. Johann Setzer, Hagenau 1532 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
- (partial reprint) Carmina aliquot, quibus historia mortis Jesu in septem horas distributa est . In: Georg Fabricius : De historia & meditatione mortis Christi, quae in noctis dieiq [ue] tempus distributa est, Hymni XXIIII , Priorvm virorvm additis precationibvs. Valtentin Papa, Leipzig 1552
Institvtiones Latinae Grammaticae , ed. by Goswin Roscius. Melchior von Neuss, Cologne 1547 ( Google Books )

literature

Carl Krafft (edit.): Messages from the history of the Lower Rhine Reformation . In: Zeitschrift des Bergisches Geschichtsverein 6 (1869), pp. 193–340, esp. Pp. 216f ( Google Books )
Erich Meuthen: Cologne University History , Vol. I The old university . Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1988, p. 254
Peter Marcardle: Confabulations. Cologne Life and Humanism in Hermann Schotten's 'Confabulations Tironum Litterariorum' (Cologne, 1525) . (Durham Modern Languages Series). Prontaprint, Durham 2007, pp. 35f and 42 ( Google Books ; limited preview)

Individual evidence

^ Cf. K. Heresbach: De Educandis Erudiendisque Principum Liberis , Hieronymus Feyerabend, Frankfurt am Main 1570, sheet 21; Edition Johann Feyerabend, Sigismund Feyerabend, Frankfurt am Main 1592, p. 36.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Cf. Carl Krafft: Messages from the history of the Lower Rhine Reformation . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein 6 (1869), pp. 193-340, esp. Pp. 216f.
↑ ^a ^b cf. Menedemus (pseudonym of Johann Friedrich Fuchs (1739–1823), Konsistorialrat and professor in Herborn): Something from the older Nassau Litterär story . In: Dillenburgische Intellektiven-Nachrichten (1778), Sp. 99-107, esp. Sp. 100f ( Google Books ). A work with the same title was published by Erasmus of Rotterdam (In: Lucubratiunculae et Lucubrationes . Andreas Schürer, Strasbourg 1515).
^ ^A ^b See letter from P. Medmann from January 20, 1547.
↑ Born in Düren , also Gosquinus, Göswein Roscius.
↑ Also Phrysemius; Frishemius; from Vryssem u. Ä., probably identical with "Johan Ott de Fryckenhusen d [iocoesis] Herbipol [ensis]", 1508 student in Leipzig, 1510 matriculated in Cologne, member of the Montana-Burse, 1522 Baccalauréat, 1525 Dr. the decretals, electoral council, dean of the artist faculty, Regens the Montana Burse. He is probably identical with the chancellor of the Archbishopric of Cologne "Joannes Matthaeus Phrissemius" (Frischheim) († 1533), who in 1523 in Cologne Rudolph Agricola's " De inventione dialectica " was newly published and who was Heinrich Bullinger's teacher.
↑ Also Volsius; Vulsken from Lünen , usually called Johann von Lünen (* around 1495, † 1558), editor of the Montana Burse.
↑ See The H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary of Grand Rapids (Michigan, USA), Microfilm Collection (Roll 115) (no statement of responsibility).
↑ From Bergamo (1516–1568), doctor and alchemist, † in Basel.
↑ See also Johann Michael Dilherr : Psalmi LI. Metrica paraphrasis, ad fontem collata Hebraeum . Weidner, Jena 1631 ( digitized version of the Jena University Library); 2nd edition Johannes Tauber, Nuremberg 1661 ( digitized in the Internet Archive).

personal data
SURNAME	Pherndorphius, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pherndorf, Peter; Segenensis, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German humanist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH	uncertain: before 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ferndorf or Siegen
DATE OF DEATH	uncertain: before 1547
Place of death	Nancy

[1] Cf. K. Heresbach: De Educandis Erudiendisque Principum Liberis , Hieronymus Feyerabend, Frankfurt am Main 1570, sheet 21; Edition Johann Feyerabend, Sigismund Feyerabend, Frankfurt am Main 1592, p. 36.

[Krafft-2] Cf. Carl Krafft: Messages from the history of the Lower Rhine Reformation . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein 6 (1869), pp. 193-340, esp. Pp. 216f.

[Menedemus-3] . Menedemus (pseudonym of Johann Friedrich Fuchs (1739–1823), Konsistorialrat and professor in Herborn): Something from the older Nassau Litterär story . In: Dillenburgische Intellektiven-Nachrichten (1778), Sp. 99-107, esp. Sp. 100f ( Google Books ). A work with the same title was published by Erasmus of Rotterdam (In: Lucubratiunculae et Lucubrationes . Andreas Schürer, Strasbourg 1515).

[Medmann-4] A ^b See letter from P. Medmann from January 20, 1547.

[5] Born in Düren , also Gosquinus, Göswein Roscius.

[6] Also Phrysemius; Frishemius; from Vryssem u. Ä., probably identical with "Johan Ott de Fryckenhusen d [iocoesis] Herbipol [ensis]", 1508 student in Leipzig, 1510 matriculated in Cologne, member of the Montana-Burse, 1522 Baccalauréat, 1525 Dr. the decretals, electoral council, dean of the artist faculty, Regens the Montana Burse. He is probably identical with the chancellor of the Archbishopric of Cologne "Joannes Matthaeus Phrissemius" (Frischheim) († 1533), who in 1523 in Cologne Rudolph Agricola's " De inventione dialectica " was newly published and who was Heinrich Bullinger's teacher.

[7] Also Volsius; Vulsken from Lünen , usually called Johann von Lünen (* around 1495, † 1558), editor of the Montana Burse.

[8] See The H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary of Grand Rapids (Michigan, USA), Microfilm Collection (Roll 115) (no statement of responsibility).

[9] From Bergamo (1516–1568), doctor and alchemist, † in Basel.

[10] See also Johann Michael Dilherr : Psalmi LI. Metrica paraphrasis, ad fontem collata Hebraeum . Weidner, Jena 1631 ( digitized version of the Jena University Library); 2nd edition Johannes Tauber, Nuremberg 1661 ( digitized in the Internet Archive).