Servatius Fanckel
Servatius Fanckel (* around 1450 in Fankel ; † July 15, 1508 in Basel ) was a German clergyman , Dominican and definitor of the provincial chapter.
Life
Servatius Fanckel was a son of the sister of the Grossig pastor Johann Graß and cousin of the brothers Peter, Johannes Kölner and Matthias Coelner de Vanckel . In his youth he and his cousins were prepared for the spiritual profession by Pastor Graß and taught in Latin. In 1467 he entered the recently reformed Dominican monastery in Cologne's Stolkgasse, where he responded to the academically very ambitious and capable teachers Richard von Sitthard, Andreas Harlem and the inquisitor Professor Dr. Gerhard von Elten met.
He was also supported by Prior Peter Kirchschlag, who turned out to be his great patron in his university studies. In 1484 he achieved the academic degree of the Baccalaureus Artium of Theology , in 1487 his master's degree (student master ) and in 1490 his licentiate or his teaching license . After a unanimous vote, Servatius Fanckel was elected as the successor to Jakob Sprenger as the new prior of the Cologne Dominican Convention. According to his own records, Fanckel led at least 255 public disputations on theological basis between 1475 and 1488 , which provided a good historical insight into the processes and development of the Church on a scientific basis. His pulpit speeches in Cologne, which he had given for over 24 years, were also preserved in the monastery library until the 18th century. On July 30, 1488, he was first again prior of the Dominican Convention in Cologne, then he appeared as a participant in the dispute over the immaculata conceptio Marias.
Servatius Fanckel, who had always endeavored to reform the order, took part in the General Chapter in Le Mans on May 22, 1491 as leader of the Rhenish Dominican monasteries of the stricter religious order of the Observants . He also took part in the provincial chapter in Ulm in 1496, but here in the function of a definitor.
On June 28, 1506 he was entrusted by the Prior General with the reform of the observance for the purpose of monastic renewal. At many Dominican convents u. a. in Koblenz and Trier he looked for allies and ways and means to get his ideas through with his fellow believers. In doing so, he did not fail to threaten reform opponents in the Trier Convention with the withdrawal of their voting rights , excommunication or even imprisonment . However, he could not successfully complete the reform, which was mainly due to his cousin Matthias Coelner de Vanckel, the provincial of the Conventuals and Regens in Trier. The reforms could only be completed later by his successor. Servatius Fanckel, who was also papal inquisitor for Mainz , Trier and Cologne, left a three-volume manuscript with sermons he had compiled after he died in the provincial chapter in Basel in 1508, but these are now considered lost.
literature
- Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Servatius Fanckel , In: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District, Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , pp. 78–79.
- Heinrich Schmitz: Two Dominican Fathers from Fankel. In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1989, pp. 135-136.
- Lauxen: The churches of Bruttig-Fankel. In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1992, p. 131.
- Heinz Schmitt: Professor Johann Coelner von Fankel, his will caused an inheritance dispute five centuries ago. In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 2010, pp. 130–132.
Web links
- Entry on Servatius Fanckel in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
- Fanckel, Servatius , Retrieved June 18, 2019
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fanckel, Servatius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1450 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fankel |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1508 |
| Place of death | Basel |