Rudolf von Langen
Rudolf von Langen (* around 1438 in Everswinkel ; † December 25, 1519 in Münster ) was a cathedral canon in Münster and an early humanist.
His name is sometimes spelled Rolef van Langhen or Rodolphus Langius .
Life
Langen was the son of Dietrich von Langen zu Everswinkel from the Westphalian noble family of "Langen with the Rauten" and his wife Sophia. He attended the University of Erfurt , obtained his Magister Artium there (1460) and then went to the University of Basel . In 1462 he took the oath of office as provost of the old cathedral in Münster, but he was likely to have been cathedral canon in Münster from 1455. In 1466 he visited Rome. During the siege of Neuss in 1474 and 1475 he accompanied his bishop Heinrich XXVII. from Schwarzburg . His reform of the cathedral school was important, after a first attempt around 1485 it was implemented around 1500 with the help of teachers like Johannes Murmellius .
His epitaph, damaged by the Anabaptists , can still be seen in a niche in the cathedral cloister of Münster .
plant
Langen is considered the first important humanist in Westphalia:
- "For Münster humanism, L (ang) was the founder figure and its most respected name."
Langen wrote a history of Jerusalem from its beginnings to its destruction in 70 AD, and for the first time included the Roman authors Tacitus and Suetonius in addition to the biblical books and Flavius Josephus . It was printed before 1483. Langen's Carmina , printed in Münster in 1486 , is the first humanistic collection of poems to be published in Germany.
literature
- Franz Josef Worstbrock : Langen, Rudolf von . In the S. (Ed.): German Humanism 1480-1520. Author's Lexicon , Vol. 2. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin + New York 2009–2013, Col. 16–27.
- Contemporaries of Erasmus Vol. 2, pp. 290f.
- Tewes, The Burses of the Cologne Artistic Faculty, 1993, pp. 715–717 (not viewed)
- Author's Lexicon 2nd ed. Vol. 5, Sp. 590ff.
- Klaus Scholz, Germania Sacra NF 33, 1995, p. 239f.
- Ludwig Geiger: Langen, Rudolf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 659 f.
- Otto Herding: Langen, Rudolf v .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , pp. 578-580 ( digitized version ).
- Hans-Josef Olszewsky: Langen, Rudolf von. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 1105-1107.
- Wilhelm Kohl in: Westfälische Zeitschrift 163 (2013), p. 58
- Adrie van der Laan: The Latin letters of Antonius Liber and Rodolphus Langius , in: Humanist book culture. German-Dutch Contacts in the Late Middle Ages (1450–1520), Jos. MM Hermans, R. Peters (Ed.), Münster 1997, pp. 143-148
Web links
- Langen, Rudolf von in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Digitized Munich
- Continuation of Langen's chronicle of bishops, lat.
Individual evidence
- ^ Worstbrock: German Humanism , 2009, Col. 16.
- ↑ Worstbrock: German Humanism , 2009, Col. 18.
- ↑ Worstbrock: German Humanism , 2009, Col. 18.
- ↑ Worstbrock: German Humanism , 2009, Col. 25.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langen, Rudolf von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cathedral canon and humanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1438 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Everswinkel |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1519 |
| Place of death | Muenster |