Veit von Fürst

Coat of arms of the von Fürst family in the older part of Scheibler's book of arms

Veit von Fürst (* around 1468 probably in Tübingen ; † March 1, 1515 in Burgenland / Austria), doctor in ecclesiastical and secular law ( utriusque iuris doctor ), came from the local nobility of Tübingen, was a councilor in the service of Emperor Maximilian I and since 1511 governor of the imperial fiefdom of Modena .

Life

Veit von Fürst was the third son of the landlord and knight Konrad von Fürst († around 1491/1494), who was married to Ursula Swelher . The father Konrad was the owner of the Württemberg feudal prince in the area of Öschingen near Tübingen and from 1464–1472 also Burgvogt in Tübingen. Vit's family belonged to the ten richest noble families in the Neckarviertel. In competition with the aspiring middle class, she sent four of her seven sons to the University of Tübingen.

Veit was enrolled in the matriculation of this university on March 21, 1481, but already a year later, in 1482, he went to the University of Orléans without an examination , where he appears as a member of the natio germanica . There he also accompanied the study of Ludwig Wirtemberger (around 1465–1495), an illegitimate son of Count Eberhard with a beard from Württemberg. The further path of his studies is unknown. As a doctor of both rights, he was elected rector of the University of Tübingen for the winter semester of 1493/1494 . The university constitution of 1477 also permitted the election of distinguished personalities as university rectors who were not professors at the university.

On the recommendation of the law professor Hieronymus von Croaria (around 1463–1527), who moved from Tübingen to Ingolstadt in 1497 , he settled in Vienna and sold his Swabian property. He acquired Burgenland dominions, including Hornstein near Eisenstadt in 1504, but sold this castle to one of his brothers two years later. King Maximilian I, who called himself emperor since 1508, appointed him to his advice and commissioned him with numerous missions: 1508 to Hungary and Venice, 1509 to Rome, Padua and Prague, 1510 to Krakow, then again to Rome and finally to the Following the Pope, to Bologna. Here he helped the Pope defend the city besieged by French troops, for which the Emperor rebuked him.

In February 1511, Veit von Fürst was appointed by the emperor as governor of the imperial fief of Modena , which the pope had left to the emperor, and took possession of Mirandola, which had been vacated by the papal army, for the emperor . Further missions to Poland and to the Pope followed. Veit von Fürst's secretary, most recently his Chancellor in Modena, was Michael Köchlin (1478 – after 1512), known as Coccinius, who had been teaching at the Tübingen Artistic Faculty from 1507 until the previous year. It is thanks to him that important information about Veit von Fürst's diplomatic activities has been passed on.

Without having reached the age of 50, Veit von Fürst died on March 1, 1515, presumably on a trip to Burgenland. He was buried there in the parish church of Eisenstadt.

literature

• Dieter Mertens: Michael Coccinius (Köchlin) from Tübingen between university and big politics , in: Tubingensia. Impulses for the city and university history . Festschrift for Wilfried Setzler for his 65th birthday, ed. by Sönke Lorenz and Volker Schäfer (Tübingen Building Blocks for Regional History, Volume 10). Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7995-5510-4 , pp. 165-185, especially pp. 177-181.
• Dieter Mertens: Heiko A. Oberman and the "Myth of Tübingen Humanism" , in: Tübingen in teaching and research around 1500. On the history of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , ed. by Sönke Lorenz, Dieter Bauer and Oliver Auge (Tübingen Building Blocks for Regional History, Volume 9). Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7995-5509-8 , pp. 241-254, especially p. 253.
• Karl Konrad Finke: Veit von Fürst (around 1468 to 1515) , in: The Professors of the Tübingen Faculty of Law (1477–1535) , edited by Karl Konrad Finke (Tübingen professor catalog, volume 1,2). Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-5452-7 , pp. 121–125.

Web links

• Epitaph of the knight Veit von Fürst From the Burgenland State Archives, website of the University of Klagenfurt