Volkmar von Anderten

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Volkmar von Anderten enriched the council library in Hanover in 1476 with his book collections

Volkmar von Anderten (* 1410 (?); † March 9, 1481 in Lübeck ) was a German clergyman and canon in Lübeck. His testamentary book foundation to the Hanover Council Library is one of the nucleus of the Hanover City Library .

Life

Volkmar von Anderten came from a family in Hanover that had been known to have been since 1301 and had provided merchants , councilors and mayors in the city for several centuries . He was a brother of the mayor Diderik von Anderten (1425-1460).

Because of the frequent use of the first name Volkmar in the family, a differentiation is sometimes difficult. A Volkmar von Anderten was born in 1410 and enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1426 . In October 1444 a Volkmarus Anderten was registered at the University of Rostock ; In 1452 the register of the University of Erfurt also mentions a bearer of this name. It is not possible to determine which of these entries affected the later canon of Lübeck.

Since 1463 he has been recorded as a canon in Lübeck and from 1466 is designated as a licentiate of canon law ( licentiatus in decretis ). From 1467 he was an official of the Diocese of Lübeck and as such certified several diplomatic documents by Vidimus and Transsumpt . There is also an inscription of a canon with this name at the collegiate monastery of the Holy Cross Church (Hildesheim) . However, since the canon was still alive in 1491 according to the list of canons, it will be a namesake.

Volkmar von Anderten donated his book collection to his hometown Hanover in 1479, “of which (as part of the so-called council library ) 19 manuscript volumes a. 44 incunabula have come down to us ”. The legacy was also linked to a scholarship that lasted for several centuries. Volkmar von Anderten's book collection, together with the donation from Konrad von Sarstedt, formed the basis of the Hanover City Library . Other foundations were a vicarie each at Lübeck Cathedral and in the chapel of his relative Arnold von Hesede at Hanover City Hall .

He was buried under a figure grave slab in Lübeck Cathedral. It was originally located in the transept in front of the northern entrance to the choir and is now heavily worn in the transept in front of the rood screen .

literature

  • Jürgen Busch: The council library in Hanover. Contributions to the history of the city library from the 15th to the beginning of the 19th century. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 10 (1957), v. a. P. 180ff.
  • Helmut Zimmermann : Anderten, from. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 28f.
  • Brigide Schwarz : Volkmar von Anderten, Canon and Official of Lübeck. (Co-) founder of the Hanover Council Library († 1481). In: Wolfenbütteler Notizen zur Buchgeschichte 24 (1999), pp. 117-131.
  • Brigide Schwarz: Careers of clerics from Hanover in northwest Germany in the first half of the 15th century. In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 73 (2001), pp. 235–270, here pp. 257f.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death according to the grave slab in Lübeck Cathedral , compare Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 634 LÜDO187
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann: Anderten ... (see literature)
  3. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Also DI 58, Stadt Hildesheim, No. 192 (Christine Wulf), in: www.inschriften.net, urn: nbn: de: 0238-di058g010k0019205 .
  5. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburgische Regesten und Urkunden Volume 14/3, No. 1835 (1467 February 27); Hansisches Urkundenbuch Volume 10, No. 255 (1473 Dec. 20); Hanserecesse II / 6 (1431–1476), Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1890, p. 402
  6. ^ Inscription catalog : City of Hildesheim , accessed on July 6, 2015
  7. ↑ J. Busch: The Council Library ... (see literature)
  8. ^ Hugo Thielen : Sarstedt, Konrad (also Cord) from. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 535.
  9. ↑ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 634 LÜDO187
personal data
SURNAME Anderten, Volkmar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman, Canon in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 1410
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1481
Place of death Lübeck