Thuringia Fricker

Alliance disc Thuringia Fricker and Margaretha Schad in the Auenstein church (around 1500)

Thuringia Fricker (* around 1429 in Brugg ; † April 19, 1519 in Brugg) was a Swiss politician.

Life

He studied at the University of Heidelberg , the University of Freiburg , the University of Basel and the University of Pavia and obtained the degrees of Baccalaureus Artium (1458) and Magister Artium (1460) in Heidelberg . In 1473 he received his doctorate in canon law on the recommendation of the city of Bern in Pavia . From 1465 to 1470 and 1471 to 1492 he worked as town clerk in Bern and was a member of the Small Council from 1492 to 1512 and 1514. He was Bern's envoy at least 86 times to the daily statutes , donated a chapel in the church of Brugg (1504), a glass painting in theAuenstein church and the All Souls Altar in the Bern Minster (1505) with the image of a ghost mass . The altar wings are now in the Kunstmuseum Bern . An illegitimate daughter of Thuringia Fricker, Margaretha Fricker (also Frickar or Frikart) , was the mother of Niklaus Manuel .

An attic statue by Fricker stands on the facade of the main building of the Berner Kantonalbank .

Emil Blösch: Fricker, Thuringia . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 89 f.
Christine Göttler: Doctor Thuringia Frickers 'ghost fair'. The sea device composition of a late medieval lawyer , in: Material culture and religious foundation in the late Middle Ages, Vienna, Verlag der Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1990, pp. 187-231.

Ariane Huber: Doctor Thuringian order. A will from 1517 (seminar paper), Bern 2004.

Gustav Tobler: Thüring Frickers Testament , in: Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1892, pp. 56–76. on-line

Frickart, Thuringia in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"

Regula Schmid: Fricker, Thuringia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Archival materials on Thuringia Fricker in the Bern Burger Library (online archive catalog)