Sixtus Tucher
Sixtus Tucher (* 1459 in Nuremberg ; † 1507 ibid) was a German legal scholar, clergyman and humanist .
Sixtus Tucher came from the Nuremberg patrician family Tucher . He studied law at the universities of Heidelberg , Pavia and Bologna , where he received his doctorate in 1485. From 1487 he was a professor of both rights at the University of Ingolstadt . From 1496 he was provost of St. Lorenz in Nuremberg. From 1503 he was cathedral curator in Regensburg. He was imperial and papal council.
In the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg there is a cabinet disk with a representation of Sixtus Tucher, which was created in 1502 after a cardboard box by Albrecht Dürer from the Hiersvogel workshop . The three-pass disc comes from Sixtus Tucher's summer house in Grasersgasse in Nuremberg.
literature
- Antonia Landois: scholarship and patrician class - spheres of activity of the Nuremberg humanist Sixtus Tucher (1459–1507) . Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-16-152654-1 (also: Würzburg, Univ., Diss., 2012).
- Ernst Mummenhoff : Tucher, Sixt . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 111-114.
- Corine Schleif: The Proper Attitude toward Death: Windowpanes Designed for the House of Canon Sixtus Tucher. In: The Art Bulletin. Vol. 69 (1987). Pp. 587-603.
Web links
- Literature by and about Sixtus Tucher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Cabinet disc in the object catalog of the collections of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tucher, Sixtus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar, clergyman and humanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1459 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1507 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |