Veit Amerbach

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Veit Amerbach, also Amerpach, Trolman, Vitus Amerpachius (* around 1503 in Wemding , † September 13, 1557 in Ingolstadt ), was a German scholar and humanist.

Life

Veit Trollmann was born as the son of the farmer Hans Trollmann († around 1520). Up to the age of 14 he attended the Latin school in his hometown of Wemding at the Weth and then went to study at the University of Ingolstadt . On July 7, 1521, he enrolled at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . In the following year he moved to the University of Wittenberg , where he met the reformer Martin Luther and the humanist Philipp Melanchthon , who shaped his further life. Through Luther's mediation, he became a teacher at the Latin school in Eisleben in 1528 , where he came into contact with Johann Agricola Eisleben . In 1528 the Wittenberg University of Leucorea was relocated to Jena due to the plague . There he continued his philosophical studies, which ended on December 12, 1529 with the acquisition of the master's degree. In 1529 he married Elisabeth; The marriage resulted in eleven children.

As a master's degree he acquired a Latin scholarly name (Vitus = Veit, Amerpachius after Amerbach bei Wemding, his father's place of origin). In 1530 Amerbach was admitted to the Senate of the Artistic Faculty of the University of Wittenberg, was dean of the Artistic Faculty in 1532 and in the winter semester 1538/39 and - after he had appointed a professorship at the Pedagogy in 1529 - became professor of physics in 1535. In 1541 Luther and Gregor Brück sent him to the Saxon consistory to participate in the sovereign church government . In a detailed study of the Church Fathers, Amerbach came to a different conclusion, so that differences of opinion arose on Reformation ideas, especially with regard to the doctrine of justification and that of the papal primacy. Thereupon appeared in 1542 his reply to Philipp Melanchthon's "Commentarius de anima".

In 1543 Amerpachius left Wittenberg and returned to the Catholic Church with his wife and children. Then he got a job from Prince-Bishop Moritz von Hutten (1539-52) at the cathedral school in Eichstätt , which had become almost insignificant due to the proximity of the State University of Ingolstadt, among other things, and which the Prince-Bishop wanted to upgrade and reform through capable teachers such as Vitus Amerpachius. But when Amperpachius was offered a professorship in Ingolstadt the following year, he immediately gave up his position in Eichstätt. At the University of Ingolstadt he read about Aristotelian philosophy and rhetoric. Soon he enjoyed a widespread reputation as a Horace and Cicero commentator , and tried himself as a poet in Latin. During his many years of teaching in Ingolstadt, he advocated equal rights between the philosophical and the other faculties.

He was buried in the Ingolstadt Minster .

Works

  • Oratio de doctoratu Philosophico. In: V. Rotmar, Tomus I orationum Ingolstadiensium. Ingolstadt 1571, sheet 351 f .;
  • Three letters from Amerbach to Julius Pflug in 1548/49. In: Ch. G. Müller, Epistolae P. Mosellani etc.… ad Julium Pflugium… 1802, pages 119–125;
  • News. Poems. In: Deliciae Poetarum Germanorum , 4 vols., Frankfurt Main 1612; Some Latin poems / sayings from Amerbach
  • Quatuor libri de anima , 4 books, 1542 (counterpart to Philipp Melanchthon's Commentarius de anima , 1540).

Detailed directory in:

  • Wetzer and Welte's Church Lexicon or Encyclopedia of Catholic Theology and its auxiliary sciences . 2nd edition, Volume I, 1882, Col. 709-711.
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General lexicon of scholars . Volume 1, 1750, Col. 341.
  • Johann Christoph Adelung : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's General Scholar Lexico . Volume 1, 1784, Col. 722.

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personal data
SURNAME Amerbach, Veit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amerpach, Veit; Amerbach, Vitus; Trolman, Veit; Trolmann, Veit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar and humanist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1503
PLACE OF BIRTH Wemding
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1557
Place of death Ingolstadt