Martin Prenninger

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Martin Prenninger , called Martinus Uranius (* around 1450 in Erding , † March 28, 1501 in Tübingen ) was a German humanist and legal scholar.

Life

Martin Prenninger came from a wealthy and respected family from the old Bavarian duke town of Erding. He enrolled on October 13, 1465 at the Artistic Faculty of the University of Vienna and was bachelor's degree in the summer semester of 1467. In 1472 Prenninger went to the University of Ingolstadt as a Magister Artium , where he became one of the six salaried students at the university. For the winter semester of 1475/1476 he was elected dean of one of the two artist faculties, the nominalistic, which were only united in 1478.

From 1476 to 1478 Prenninger was involved in lawsuits before the Ingolstadt rector's court. In 1478 he set up a print template for Johann Zainer's Ulm Offizin. It is therefore not certain when he began his studies in Florence , which was then the capital of the Renaissance . He was soon accepted into the circle of the Florentine Platonists around the humanist Marsilio Ficino , a loose association without an institutional framework, which was previously misleadingly referred to as the "Platonic Academy". Prenninger had a close and lifelong friendship with Ficino. The time when Prenninger moved to the famous University of Padua to devote himself to legal studies is also uncertain .

Presumably he also received his doctorate here as a "doctor of both rights" (" doctor iuris utriusque ", of secular and canon law , i.e., canon law ). After completing his university studies, Prenninger returned to Germany, married Barbara Rottengatter from an Ulm trading company in Ulm around 1480/1482, entered the service of the Bishop of Constance as a lawyer and became Episcopal Chancellor . In 1490 he moved to Tübingen , where the Eberhard Karls University was only founded in 1477 and received the chair of full professor of canon law. In addition, the Württemberg Count Eberhard V and later Duke Eberhard I appointed him to his council. Parts of his lecture manuscripts were printed several times between 1677 and 1713. Prenninger's collection of reports, published in three folio volumes in 1597 and 1607, is the oldest collection of consiliations by a German legal teacher that has ever been printed.

Martin Prenninger already had the reputation of an outstanding scholar among his contemporaries because of his humanistic education and his legal knowledge. This reputation was reflected not least in the fees that he was able to claim for his reports. Together with the extraordinarily high salary as a full professor and councilor of Württemberg, they brought him a considerable fortune. Prenninger acquired the Tübingen monastery site from the Augustinian nuns around 1495 . His heirs sold it to the Blaubeuren monastery in 1505 .

literature

  • Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Prenninger, Martin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 567 f.
  • Bauer, Matthias Johannes: "The dohaim were a poor drop": the lawyer and humanist Dr. Martin Prenninger - from Erdinger's petty bourgeois son to one of the greatest scholars of the 15th century . - Annual journal / Historischer Verein Erding, 2005, pp. 9–32
  • Finke, Karl Konrad: Martin Prenninger alias Uranius (around 1450/1453 to 1501) . In: The professors of the Tübingen Faculty of Law (1477-1535) (= Tübingen professor catalog . Vol. 1,2). Edited by Karl Konrad Finke. Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2011. ISBN 978-3-7995-5452-7 , pp. 236–262, with catalog raisonné pp. 258–262.
  • Zeller, Wolfgang: The lawyer and humanist Martin Prenninger called Uranius (1450-1501). - Tübingen: Mohr, 1973. - XII, 191 S.: Ill .; (German). - (Contubernium; 5). - ISBN 3-16-635061-6
  • Christoph Schöner: Mathematics and astronomy at the University of Ingolstadt in the 15th and 16th centuries (Ludovico Maximilianea. Research, Volume 13). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-08118-8 , Prenninger's collegiate activity: pp. 163f., 471f.

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personal data
SURNAME Prenninger, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uranius, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1450
PLACE OF BIRTH Erding
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1501
Place of death Tübingen