Thammo solver
Thammo Löser (* around 1450; † October 3, 1503 ) was a German lawyer , canon, archdeacon and cathedral scholastic.
Life
Löser came from a noble family residing in Pretzsch in the Kurkreis in the former Duchy of Saxony-Wittenberg , which later held the hereditary marshal's office and provided several knights in the Middle Ages. In Basel he received his doctorate in canon law and is documented for the first time as a member of the cathedral chapter in Meißen in 1489 . In 1492 and 1494, Löser is mentioned as archdeacon of Niederlausitz and from 1595 he is called a cathedral scholastic.
He also became known for his private library, which after his death came to the Franciscan monastery and the All Saints Monastery in Wittenberg . Löser had the majority of these books integrated in the trade fair city of Leipzig .
70 of his incunabula from the Franciscan monastery in Wittenberg are now in the preacher's seminar in Lutherstadt Wittenberg and another 50 in the Jena University Library.
literature
- Konrad von Rabenau: The bookbinder of Thammo Löser . In: Ulman Weiß (Ed.): Book being in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Festschrift for Helmut Claus on his 75th birthday, Epfendorf / Neckar 2008, pp. 25–38.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Different life dates for Friedrich Adolf Ebert: Der Dom zu Meissen, Meißen 1835.
- ^ Inventory history of the library of the Evangelical Preachers' Seminar
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Solver, Thammo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, canon, archdeacon and cathedral scholastic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1450 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 1503 |