Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl

Nicholas of Dinkelsbühl, origin. Nicolaus Prüntzlin / Prunczlein, (* 1360 in Dinkelsbühl, † March 17 1433 in Vienna ) was a German theologian.

Life

After his successful visit to the local grammar school (probably the local Carmelite ) was sent Nicolaus Prunczlein to Vienna.

There, Nicholas began to study at the University of Vienna in 1385. He began with the Artes, reached his Baccalariat 1385 and four years later the licentiate and the degree Master of Arts. In 1390 he began to study theology at the same university; reached in 1408 a licentiate and a year later the degree Magister theologicum. In these studies, it was, inter alia, the pupil of Heinrich Lange Stein and Henry Totting of Oyta.

During his studies, he was called Nicholas twice Dean of the Faculty of Arts ( 1392 and 1397 ) and twice Dean of the Faculty of Theology ( 1410 and 1427). In the years 1405 to 1406, he was appointed rector. As a member of an embassy Nicholas stayed from 1399 to 1400 in the Vatican. Later he represented the University of Vienna twice ( 1405 and 1423 ) the Holy See.

In the chapter of St. Stephen Nicholas was appointed in 1405. As such, he was not only an important advisor Duke Albrecht V of Habsburg, but 1425 also his confessor. The Duke called Nicholas in 1414 as its representative at the Council of Constance. For four years, Nicholas worked there. As a member of the Doctrinal Commission, he was entrusted with the intense Causae Jan Hus and Jerome of Prague. As a representative of the German nation Nicholas was a member of the electoral college, which on November 11, 1417 Cardinal Oddone Colonna pope ( Martin V ) chose.

Home in Vienna Nicholas created the foundations for a comprehensive reform monastery in Austria ( Melk Abbey reform). Successfully implemented this was by the milker monks Seyringer Nicholas and Peter of Rosenheim. From Cardinal Branda Castiglione, the Papal Nuncio in Germania, he was nominated for the Hussite crusade preacher and equipped with large drain powers. Pope Martin V. renewed this contract in 1427.

At the age of about 70 years, Nicholas of Dinkelsbühl died on March 17, 1433 in Vienna. In the sermon on the occasion of his funeral, he was called the second founder of the University of Vienna. His final resting place he found in the St. Stephan's Cathedral in Vienna.

He is one of the main representatives of the Vienna School of Pastoral Theology and left many scientific works and collections of sermons, which are preserved in more than 1000 manuscripts. In his work of Nicholas Dinkelsbühl was arrested very medieval. His theological understanding was based next to the bible only to the great Doctor of the Church, but especially to Bernard of Clairvaux.

As honorary title Nicholas was called during his lifetime Sueviae Lux (Latin for " Light of the Swabians" or "Light of Swabia ").

Works

The work of Nicholas of Dinkelsbühl comprises about 62 books, which are available in over a thousand manuscripts. Especially his sermons enjoyed an immense popularity. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, later Pope Pius II, reported that his sermons hodie avidity a doctis leguntur ( be eagerly read by scholars today). Even the Ingolstadt Prof. Dr. Johannes Eck has become much later the Nicholas ' writings in preparation for his clash with Martin Luther served.

The work of Nicholas of Dinkelsbühl can be divided into

Some students of Nicholas of Dinkelsbühl

• John of Dinkelsbühl
• Nicholas Fighting
• Thomas Peuntner
• Thomas Ebendorfer, called Thomas Haselbach