Alexander Hegius von Heek

Hegius Alexander (* 1439/1440 in Steinfurt, † December 27, 1498 in Deventer ) was a German humanist, a member of the Brothers of the Common Life, and later priests of the Catholic Church.

Life

Hegius is not how long assumed to 1433 Heek the son of a magistrate, but only 1439/40 came in Burg Steinfurt to the world. He probably attended the grammar school in Münster and learned here probably know Rudolf von Langen. He studied from 1456 to 1463 in Rostock.

In 1469 he became rector of the urban " Great School " in Wesel and 1474 collegiate school of St. Martin in Emmerich. He owed this reputation a friend of the new humanistic education, the provost Count Moritz von Spiegelberg. He met Rudolf Agricola, the actual teacher of Alexander Hegius should be.

From autumn 1483 until his death he was the rector of the pen of St.. Lebuinus associated school in Deventer and they reformed in the humanistic sense. Agricola led Hegius into the circle of friends of leading personalities of the Northwest German humanism, which met in the former Cistercian monastery Adwert in Groningen.

In Deventer Heguis took Greek in the curriculum. He was influenced by the Modern Devotion, a German mysticism related religious renewal movement of 14-15. Century. This target an individual piety in imitation of Christ. Hegius was still as an older man priest and also won by his students influence on humanism.

Higher still than its importance as a writer is his work to be regarded as a teacher. In addition to Erasmus of Rotterdam Johannes Butzbach, Hermanus Buschius, John Murmellius and John Peringius were among his pupils.

Today, a secondary school in Ahaus, the Alexander Hegius High School and two other schools in Heek and Deventer bear the name of the humanists.