Philipp Fürstenberger

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Philipp Fürstenberger (* 1479 ; † September 18, 1540 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Frankfurt patrician and statesman . He represented the imperial city on several imperial days , promoted humanism and the introduction of the Reformation, and was senior mayor in 1519, 1525 and 1531 .

life and work

Fürstenberger came from a family that had come to Frankfurt from Mainz in the 15th century because of the loss of city ​​freedom privileges. His father Peter Fürstenberg married the Frankfurt patrician daughter Gudchin Hynsperg in 1474 . He thus acquired Frankfurt citizenship and was accepted into the Alten Limpurg Society . After Gudchin died in 1475, he married Gredchin Steffan in 1478 .

Philipp was born in 1479. He studied in Tübingen from 1496 and in Heidelberg from 1499 . In 1503 he received Frankfurt citizenship through marriage to the patrician daughter Katharina Bromm . In 1505 he became a councilor and in 1510 a lay judge . In addition to his friend Hamman von Holzhausen and Claus Stalburg , Fürstenberger belonged to a group of humanistically minded patricians who founded a municipal Latin school in 1519 . Fürstenberger stood up for the dean of the Liebfrauenstift , who was well known to him , Johannes Cochläus , as its first rector, but was unable to assert himself in the council, which at Stalburg's suggestion called the humanist Wilhelm Nesen , a supporter of Martin Luther , to Frankfurt. While Nesen made the Latin school the center of the Reformation movement in Frankfurt, Cochlaeus developed into one of Luther's fiercest opponents.

Fürstenberger was unusually educated for a patrician of his time. He owned a large library, spoke fluent Latin and Greek and was on friendly terms with the humanists Ulrich von Hutten and Willibald Pirckheimer . According to Cochläus, however, he was initially “ at home in the Greek and Latin sciences mediocriter ”. The greater linguistic fluency may have been a result of the public lectures that Nesen and his successor Jakob Micyllus gave to Frankfurt citizens.

From 1517 he represented the city on several Imperial Diets: Mainz 1517, Augsburg 1518 , Worms 1521 , Nuremberg 1522, Regensburg 1527, Speyer 1529 , Augsburg 1530 and Regensburg 1532. On his mediation, Frankfurt joined the Schmalkaldic League in 1535 . About the Reichstag he wrote reports to the city council that serve as reliable historical sources, for example on the questioning of Martin Luther  at the Worms Reichstag: “The monk does a lot of work, some of them would like to nail him to the cross, fear he will can hardly escape them. The only thing to worry about is where it would happen, he would rise again on the third day. "

Fürstenberger was three times senior mayor of Frankfurt: 1519, 1525, the year of the Frankfurt guild uprising , which he and Hamman von Holzhausen were able to settle through clever mediation, and 1531.

A street and a secondary school in the north end of Frankfurt are named after Fürstenberger .

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  1. ↑ a b c Michael Matthäus, Hamman von Holzhausen (1467-1536). A Frankfurt patrician in the age of the Reformation , Studies on Frankfurt History 48, Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-7829-0528-8 , p. 182
  2. ↑ Matthäus, Hamman von Holzhausen , pp. 185f.
  3. ^ Georg Steitz , Reformation personalities. Influences and processes in the imperial city of Frankfurt am Main from 1519 to 1522 , in: Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art Volume 4 (1869), p. 105.
  4. ^ Waldemar Kramer , Frankfurt Chronik , Third Edition, Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-7829-0321-8 , p. 100
personal data
SURNAME Fürstenberger, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German patrician and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH 1479
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1540
Place of death Frankfurt am Main