Stephan Feyerabend

Stephan Feyerabend or Stephan Feyerabent (born March 21, 1523 in Schwäbisch Hall ; † August 21, 1574 in Heilbronn ) was a lawyer and poet as well as a friend and biographer of Götz von Berlichingens .

origin

Feyerabend (alternative spellings: Feierabend , Feyerabent ) came from a middle-class Schwäbisch Hall family. His father of the same name (1490–1545) was a red tanner and citizen of Hall and brother of the Ansbach monastery dean and provost Joseph Feyerabend (1493–1543). Feyerabend's mother was his second wife Elisabeth (née Kraft, † 1579). Stephan Feyerabend had ten younger siblings and five older half-siblings from the first wife of his widowed father.

Feyerabend as a lawyer

Stephan Feyerabend studied law in Heidelberg from 1541 , where he passed his master's degree in 1544, and Freiburg im Breisgau . From 1552, he worked as a lawyer in Wimpfen worked and was as General Counsel of the canton Kraichgau bestallt. In 1555 he became the syndic of the imperial city of Heilbronn and in 1566 again of the canton of Kraichgau.

Feyerabend as a confidante of Götz von Berlichingen

In his work as a legal advisor to the Kraichgau knighthood as well as to individual families incorporated into it, Feyerabend came into contact with the robber baron Götz von Berlichingen, who was ready to take legal action . At that time, Heilbronn was a center and meeting point for the knighthood, which was mainly scientifically intertwined with the city. Feyerabend persuaded Berlichingen to write his memoirs, which he finally had Feyerabend edit. As a thank you, Berlichingen dedicated the work to the lawyer, who was 43 years his junior. When Götz visited Heilbronn for the last time shortly before his death in 1553, he handed his armor over to "his dear master, good patron and friend" Feyerabend.

Feyerabend as a poet

Feyerabend also emerged as a neo-Latin poet. Among other things, he is the author of the poem De Feyerabentho (Omnium Rerum Socio Ac Fine Carmen Temporarium) from the end of the day as the end and beginning of all things, in which Feyerabend dedicated a few friendly verses to the knight about ten years after his death and that of Feyerabend's relative, the Frankfurt man Printer Sigmund Feyerabend , 1590.

death

Stephan Feyerabend died in Heilbronn in 1574, as did his second wife Dorothea (née Bernbeck) of the plague. With this and his first wife Barbara (née Haug), who died in 1551, he had a total of 16 children.

Remarks

1. ↑ As a master's degree, he took Georg Marius' examination on June 25, 1548 for a baccalaureus.
2. ↑ Götz von Berlichingen: My Gottfriden von Berlichingen between Hornberg vhedt vnd ​​actions , preface

literature

• Moriz von Rauch : Stefan Feyerabend, neo-Latin poet and Heilbronn syndic . In: 13th report of the Heilbronn Historical Association , Heilbronn 1921, pp. 41–74.
• Feyerabend Foundation in Schwäbisch Hall . Association for family and heraldry in Württemberg and Baden, [Stuttgart] 1976 ( The Württemberg family foundations . Addendum 5), p. 2.
• Rolf Heyers: Dr. Georg Marius , called Mayer von Würzburg (1533-1606). (Dental) medical dissertation Würzburg 1957, p. 8 f.