Wilhelm Nesen
Wilhelm Nesen (* 1492 in Nastätten ; † July 6, 1524 in Wittenberg ) was a German humanist and educator . He was a student of Erasmus of Rotterdam and a follower of Luther . His humanist name was Nesenus or Nesenius .
Life
Nesen was born in 1492 in Nastatten im Taunus . Coming from a humble background, he was lucky that his father, who worked in agriculture, was able to finance a degree for him and his younger brother Konrad Nesen .
Around 1514 he studied in Basel , where he also worked on corrections for Froben's printing company. In Basel he probably made friends with Ulrich Zwingli and Heinrich Glareanus , who lived in Basel from 1514 to 1517. Nesen got in touch with Erasmus, who was also in Basel around this time and from Antwerp in 1516 he dedicated the new edition of his "Copia rerum et verborum" to him. At his instigation, Nesen went to Leuven in the same year and joined the humanists. He later obtained his master's degree there .
Like many humanists of his time, he frequently changed whereabouts. So he went to Paris , which he visited after completing his doctorate at the beginning of 1517, and heard particularly Cyprianus Taleus here , but he also met Nicolaus Beraldus (approx. 1473-1550) a pupil of Étienne Dolet , Guillaume Budé and other representatives of the know French humanism . In 1518 he tried unsuccessfully for a professorship in Latin at the Collegium trilingue in Leuven. His younger brother Konrad commented on the situation in Leuven in a satirical way.
Because of a dispute with the Carmelites - Prior Nicholas Egmond he had to leave the lion. Through the mediation of Erasmus, he was called to Frankfurt am Main by the patrician Hamman von Holzhausen . In 1520 he became the founding rector of the first Latin school in Frankfurt. From this school later emerged the municipal grammar school (now: Lessing grammar school). In the Council's deed of appointment he is referred to as a poet and erfarner in Latin and Greek .
Since Martin Luther had stayed twice in Frankfurt on April 14, 1521 on his trip to the Reichstag in Worms and on April 27 on the return trip, Nesen had been in regular contact with him. Luther's pamphlet from February 1523 adversus armatum virum Cocleum against Johannes Cochlaeus is dedicated to Nesen.
In April 1523 Nesen went to the University of Wittenberg to get there, the law to devote. At the same time he gave lectures on classical authors and geography. He drowned on July 6, 1524 in an accident in the Elbe near Wittenberg. His sudden death caused sadness and dismay. In the weeks following his death, Luther's song, Mitten wir im Leben are surrounded by death, was written .
His descendants passed the family name on through male lines in the Latinized form Nesenius and Nessenius. There is speculation that Martin Luther's opponents helped him overboard while traveling on a ship on the Elbe . His descendant Erika Opelt-Stoevesandt took the view that it was an assassination attempt , especially since the Nesen brothers belonged to Luther's close circle of friends and were involved in the publication of the 95 theses .
literature
- Georg Eduard Steitz : The humanist Wilhelm Nesen, the founder of the grammar school and the first initiator of the Reformation in the old imperial city of Frankfurt a. M. Life picture, presented on the basis of the documents . In: Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art (AFGK) 14, 1877, pp. 36–160
- Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg . Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
- Reinhard Frost: Nesen, Wilhelm in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon (status of the article: January 7, 1994), also in: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 91 .
- Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German (15 volumes). Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 )
- Otto Kämmel: Nesen, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 438-441.
- Nesen or Nesenus, Wilhelm. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 23, Leipzig 1740, column 1922 f.
Web links
- Nesen, Wilhelm. Hessian biography. (As of March 23, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Karl Heidemann: Explanations on the history of the Reformation by previously unnamed documents Dresden 1844
- ^ Johann Georg Walch: D. Martin Luther's complete writings in Halle in Magdeburg 1750
- ↑ Everything Lausitz: Nesenscher Pokal is a "star exhibit"
- ^ O. Kaemmel: Nesen, Wilhelm. German biography, www.deutsche-biographie.de [1]
- ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Lexicon of all scholars who have lived in Bremen since the Reformation. Schünemann, Bremen 1818 [2]
- ↑ http://s183048556.online.de/helmert/luther/allge_mein.html
- ^ Ernst Friedrich Haupt: Wilhelm and Konrad, Brothers Nesen, Nikolaus Von Dornspach U. Procopius Naso, Verlag Nabu Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1278881119 , [3]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nesen, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nesenus; Nesenius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German humanist and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1492 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nasta |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1524 |
| Place of death | Wittenberg |