Simon Batz

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Simon Batz , called Simon von Homburg , Simon Baechcz de Homburg and other variants (* around 1420 in Hombourg-Haut ; † August 3, 1464 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer, Lübeck council syndic and early humanist .

Life

Simon Batz came from Oberhomburg (today Hombourg Haut, Département Moselle, in the Middle Ages also called "Bischofshomburg") not far from Metz and was born around 1420. Presumably he attended a diocesan school in the diocese of Metz . In autumn 1438 he was enrolled at the University of Erfurt , apparently on a scholarship from the Bishop of Metz Konrad Bayer von Boppard . In 1440/41 he passed the bachelor's degree - and 144? the master’s examination . In 1448 he can be traced back to the newly founded Juristenkolleg, but he also remained active in the artist faculty and was dean here in 1453. In 1455 he received his licentiate and in 1457 a doctorate in both rights . In the same year 1457 he was rector of the university.

At the beginning of 1458 he was appointed to the council syndic in Lübeck as the successor to Syndicus Arnold Sommernat von Bremen, who went to Erfurt as a professor. One of his first tasks was the diplomatic representation of the city in the Lüneburg Prelate War . In 1459 he was Lübeck's representative at the Princely Congress of Mantua and in the following years often at the court of Emperor Friedrich III. in Vienna .

In the spring of 1464 he returned to Lübeck and renewed his contract, but died of the plague in early August . His successor as Syndicus was Johannes Osthusen († 1506) from Erfurt .

Batz was buried in the Marienkirche in Lübeck . The grave slab contained his full picture and was used by the Marienpastor Jacob Stolterfoht in 1633 . The stone was ceded before the First World War and can no longer be traced today.

In 2013 the new school center in Ober-Homburg was named Groupe scolaire Simon Batz .

Library

Commentary on Roman law by Bartolus de Saxoferrato with illumination by Erfurt master Johannes Falkenstein

In his (second) will of 1464, Batz granted the city of Lübeck a right of first refusal to his collection of manuscripts, which his sisters also exercised in return for payment of 300 Rhenish guilders . His collection became the nucleus of the council library and thus later the city ​​library . According to the list enclosed with the will, the collection contained 397 titles, mainly legal writings, but also Latin classics. Around a third of this can still be found in the city library today. One of their top pieces is a collection of letters that Batz had acquired in 1449 and continuously expanded and from which Wilhelm Wattenbach published individual pieces in 1873, as well as a manuscript of the commentary on Roman law by Bartolus de Saxoferrato .

literature

  • Olof Ahlers :  Batz, Simon (van Homborch). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 630 ( digitized version ).
  • Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851 in ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), pp. 91–168.
  • Robert Gramsch: Erfurt lawyers in the late Middle Ages: the career patterns and fields of activity of a learned elite of the 14th and 15th centuries. Brill, Leiden 2003, ISBN 90-04-13178-7 .
  • Klaus Wriedt : School and University: Educational Conditions in Northern German Cities of the Late Middle Ages; Collected Essays. Brill, Leiden 2005, ISBN 90-04-14687-3 .
  • Robert Schweitzer, Ulrich Simon: "Boeke, gude unde böse". The library of Lübeck's Syndic Simon Batz von Homburg: attempted reconstruction based on his will and evidence from the holdings of the former council library in the Lübeck city library. In: Rolf Hammel-Kiesow, Michael Hundt (Hrsg.): The memory of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Festschrift for Antjekathrin Graßmann on her 65th birthday. Lübeck 2005, ISBN 3-7950-5555-5 , pp. 127-158.
  • Ulrich Simon: Metz or Lübeck - home or career? Attempts to interpret some letters from the letter book of the Lübeck syndic Simon Batz. In: Robert Schweitzer, Bernd Dohrendorf (eds.): Bibliotheca publica - Civitas Lubecensis - Mare Balticum. Library - Hanseatic City - Baltic Sea Region. Festschrift for Dr. Jörg Fligge on the resignation of the director of the library of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Lübeck 2005, ISBN 3-933652-25-1 , pp. 94-117.
  • Alken Bruns, Ulrich Simon: Batz (Gen. de Homburg, van Homburch), Simon. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Vol. 12, p. 30; also in: Alken Bruns (Hrsg.): New Lübecker CVs. Wacholtz, Neumünster 2009, ISBN 978-3-529-01338-6 , pp. 23-26.
  • Thomas Haye : Simon Batz von Homburg (approx. 1420–1464) - an early humanist in Lübeck? in: Zeitschrift für Lübeckische Geschichte , Volume 93 (2013), pp. 9–34
  • Jan Ciglbauer: Habent sua fata libelli. The Lübeck Troparium and possible musical interests of Simon Batz von Homburg, in: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft , vol. 73, vol. 3 (2016), pp. 220–240

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He later returned to Hamburg as Syndicus.
  2. ^ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600. Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , pp. 911-912.
  3. ↑ See Ulrich Simon, Robert Schweitzer: A new French school honors a medieval book collector from Lübeck. Inauguration of the Simon Batz School Center in Ober-Homburg. In: Lübeckische Blätter . 178 (2013), pp. 218-221.
  4. ↑ Lübeck City Library, Ms. hist 8 ° 1a, ex Cod. 152, see in particular Simon: Metz or Lübeck ... (lit.) and https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/5479 .
  5. ↑ Lübeck City Library, Ms jur.gr. 2 ° 6
personal data
SURNAME Batz, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Homburg, Simon von; Homburg, Simon Baechcz de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, councilor in Lübeck and early humanist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1420
PLACE OF BIRTH Hombourg-Haut
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1464
Place of death Lübeck