Veit Winsheim

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Veit Winsheim (also: Vitus Oertel, Veit Örtel, Vinshemius, Vuincemius, Windsheim ; * August 1, 1501 in Windsheim ; † January 3, 1570 in Wittenberg ) was a German rhetorician, philologist, medic and Graecist.

Life

Epitaph by Veit Winsheim in the Wittenberg town church

After Winsheim had trained in Deventer , he enrolled at the University of Vienna in the summer semester of 1520, with a scholarship of 20 guilders . The following year he went to the Hungarian oven as a teacher , but was expelled from there in 1523. In August 1523 he matriculated at the University of Wittenberg and completed further studies in philosophy with Philipp Melanchthon . First he ran a private school in Wittenberg, which earned him the recognition of Melanchthon. On April 30, 1528 he earned the degree of Master of Philosophy.

On May 1, 1528 he was admitted to the Senate of the Philosophical Faculty, where in 1529 he took over the professorship from Hermann Tulken for rhetoric. After he had represented Melanchthon in his professorship of the Greek language since 1536, he became his successor on August 4, 1541. On February 4, 1550 he received his doctorate in medicine under Jakob Milich , although he taught at the medical faculty from December 31, 1550, but could not obtain a professorship there. Instead, he briefly took over the lectures of Melanchthon on logic in 1560 after Melanchthon's death and gave his Greek commemorative speech at his funeral.

Windsheim had also taken on organizational tasks at the Wittenberg University. In the winter semesters 1529, 1537 and 1548 he was dean of the philological faculty, in the summer semesters 1540, 1551, 1566 rector of the Wittenberg University and in the summer semester 1558 he was the equivalent prorector of the academy. Winsheim also took part in the city's organizational tasks, so in 1549 he became a councilor in Wittenberg. He also took over that position in the years 1552, 1555, 1558, 1561, 1564 and 1567.

family

Winsheim was married to Anna Rüpelin (died December 29, 1590). From this marriage comes his son Veit , who also became a professor of law. Winsheim left two daughters and eight sons. His son Veit donated an epitaph in memory of him in 1586, which is in the Wittenberg town church . This painting is the last that Lucas Cranach the Younger painted. His daughter Anna marries the East Frisian Chancellor Thomas Franzius . In addition, the sons Johann and Christoph also left offspring.

Descendants of Winsheim resided in the East Frisian chief's castle in Warnsath .

Selection of works

  1. Orationes Demosthenis contra Aristogitonem. Haguenau, 1527
  2. Vituperatio ebrietatis. Wittenberg 1529
  3. Oratio de studiis adolescentium. Wittenberg 1529 (deanery speech)
  4. Laudation funebris D. Sebaldi Münsteri. 1530
  5. Declamatio de Imperatore Cunrado. 1538
  6. Disp. de philosophia et ebrietate; Praefatio in Homerum; De Sebaldo Munstero. Wittenberg 1539
  7. Declamatio de Guelfo Dux Bavariae. Wittenberg 1539
  8. Praefatio in lectionem Euripidis. Wittenberg 1548
  9. Interpretatio Tragoediarum Sophoclis… ex graecae linguae edita. Frankfurt / O., 1549
  10. Galeni de usu partium corporis humani. Liber quartus. Wittenberg 1549
  11. Oratio de studiis linguae graecae. Wittenberg 1549
  12. Sophocles. Frankfurt 1549
  13. Interpretatio Eidylliorum Theocriti dictata in Academia Vitebergensi. Frankfurt, 1558
  14. Demosthenes' second speech against Aristogeiton. 1559
  15. Oratio habita in another Ph. Melanthonis. Wittenberg 1560
  16. Oratio recitata cum inchoaret praelectionem Dialecticae. Wittenberg 1560
  17. Thucydidis de bello Peloponnesiaco pars prior, libris quatuor continens ad usum iuventutis. Wittenberg 1562
  18. A beautiful, marvelous Declamation ... the Guelff Hertzog. Wittenberg 1563
  19. Adhortatio ad scholasticos ante legum recitatione. Wittenberg 1566 (Rector's lecture)
  20. Resignatio publica ad scholasticos a rectore. Wittenberg 1566
  21. Thucydidis… Historiae de bello peloponnesiaco libri octo e graeco Sermons in latinam. Praeses u. Orator at med. Prom. Wittenberg 1569
  22. De XXXII propositionibus prioribus (Resp.Bert) et de sequentibus XL propositionibus (or Roeder). 1553
  23. De propositionibus sequentibus (Resp. Moninger). Wittenberg 1559
  24. Oratio de consideratione humani corporis (Prom. Moninger). Wittenberg 1559
  25. Oratio de Gregorio Pontano (Prom. Peucer). Wittenberg published in 1560 posthumously:
  26. Thucydidis Atheniensis Historiae de bello Nunc denuo recusi et editi. Wittenberg, 1580
  27. Sophoclis Trachiniae cum interpretatione larina. Strasbourg 1584
  28. Sophoclis Tragoediae septem. Wittenberg 1585 a. Heidelberg 1597, 1603
  29. Theocrit's idylls
  30. De Guelpho duce Bavariae

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We also know the son Philipp Ortel, SS 1546 immat. UWB. On February 3, 1561, he married Anna Grössel, daughter of the mayor of Oschatz, in Wittenberg. On July 3, 1563 daughter Anna was born.
  2. ↑ Oldenburger Jahrbuch, 1985, p. 74 digitized
  3. ↑ Rainer Hinrichs: How did the name Veit (without h) come to Harlingerland? Information about the history of the former noble estate Warnsath . In: Frisian homeland . 11. Supplement to the Anzeiger für Harlingerland . Wittmund, June 2, 2008. pp. 1 and 3


personal data
SURNAME Winsheim, Veit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oertel, Veit; Örtel, Veit; Vinshemius, Veit; Vuincemius, Veit; Windsheim the Elder, Veit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rhetorician and Graecist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1501
PLACE OF BIRTH Windsheim
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1570
Place of death Wittenberg