Vincenz Lang

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Vincenz Lang , with the humanist name Vincentius Longinus Eleutherius (* in Freystadt in Silesia ; † July 15, 1502 ), was a German humanist and poet .

Like Lorenz Corvinus , he came from Lower Silesia ; he also called himself Eleutherius after his hometown Freystadt .

Life

Vincenz Lang was the student of Conrad Celtis (probably in Ingolstadt) and a member of his Sodalitas Danubiana . In 1499 he was on a trip to Italy with Johannes Rhagius von Sommerfeld in Bologna and there may have met Nicolaus Copernicus .

Vincenz Lang is crowned poeta laureatus by the emperor ( New Cathedral in Linz )

He then got a job in Vienna at the newly founded Imperial Poet College through Celtis . On March 1, 1501, Lang and other members of the Sodalitas Danubiana appeared together with Celtis in his imperial play Ludus Dianae before the royal couple in Linz Castle . Long played Bacchus, as the highlight of the game he threw himself at the feet of the watching Maximilian I and asked for the laurel wreath . Maximilian then intervened in the game and crowned Lang " poeta laureatus ".

The solemn inauguration of the college took place on February 1, 1502, with Vincentius Longinus delivering the eulogy for the future emperor. Lang died soon after; he is said to have committed suicide on July 15, 1502, according to a letter from Georg Ratzenperger to Siegmund von Herberstein (previously 1503 was assumed to be the year of death).

Nicolaus Germanus , mentioned in a letter from Lang to Conrad Celtis , was later interpreted as Nicolaus Copernicus .

Appreciation

literature

  • J. Klaus Kipf: Lang, Vinzenz. In: Franz Josef Worstbrock (Ed.): Author's Lexicon of German Humanism 1480–1520. Volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, Col. 12-16.
  • Johan Huemern:  Vincenz Lang in Celtis, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 82-88.
  • Heinrich August Erhard: History of the revival of scientific education primarily in Germany up to the beginning of the Reformation. Volume III, Creutz'sche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1832, pp. 310-311 (section “Vincentius Longinus”; limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Aschbach: History of the Vienna University in the first century of its existence . Vienna 1865, p. 436 ( Google Books ).
  2. ↑ Jeremi Wasiutyński: The Solar Mystery: An Inquiry Into the Temporal and the Eternal Background of the Rise of Modern Civilization. Solum Forlag, 2003, ISBN 82-560-1407-5 , p. 31 ( Google Books ).
  3. ^ A b Hans Bernd Harder: Country descriptions of Central Europe from the 15th to 17th centuries: Lectures of the 2nd international conference of the "Slavic Committee" in the Herder Institute in Marburg ad Lahn, 10.-13. November 1980. Committee of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Promotion of Slavic Studies, Böhlau-Verlag, 1983, ISBN 3-412-03182-8 , p. 40 ( Google Books ).
  4. ↑ Kipf in the author's lexicon German Humanism , Sp. 13, with reference to the letter stored in the manuscript collection of the Austrian National Library , Codex 13597, to which Emil Reicke (Ed.): Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel , Volume 1. Beck, Munich 1940, P. 183.
  5. ^ History of German literature from the beginning to the present . CH Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37898-6 , p. 530 ( Google Books ).
  6. ↑ Johannes Papritz, Hans Schmauch, Alexander Berg: Germany and the East. Copernicus Researches. S. Hirzel, 1943, p. 14 ( Google Books ).
  7. ↑ H. Ruprich and, following him, H. Schmauch erroneously referred V. Lang's communication on Nikolaus Germanus to N. Coppernicus - Ernst Zinner, Heribert M. Nobis, Felix Schmeidler: Origin and expansion of the Copernican doctrine. 1988, p. 501.
personal data
SURNAME Lang, Vincenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vincentius Longinus Eleutherius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Freystadt in Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1502