Ottmar Luscinius
Otmar Nachtgall ( Latinized Ottomarus Luscinius; * 1478/80 in Strasbourg, † September 5, 1537 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a humanist, theologian, translator and musician with a variety of interests, and also in his writings on German, Greek Latin beat down. He was Doctor juris pontificii.
Life
Otmar Nachtgall was born in Strasbourg, the son of John and Ottilia Nachtgall 1478/80.
He received his first training in Strasbourg, where he was influenced by the humanist Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg and Jacob Wimpfeling. In 1494 he enrolled at the University of Heidelberg and graduated with a baccalaureate from in July 1496. The following years were marked by extensive travels, which took him to Paris, Padua, Vienna, in the Near East and Greece.
These is the University of Vienna. After his matriculation he was by Wolfgang Grefinger trained as organists and composers. He also lectured on music. Here he found a great interest in the most important organ player this time Paul Hofhaimer.
In the years 1510 and 1511 he lived in Augsburg at the humanist Konrad Peutinger and put there the connection to Sebastian Virdung ago, whose work he getutscht Musica rendered into Latin.
From 1511 to 1514 he lived in Paris, where he studied theology, Greek and Latin at Jerome Aleandro at Fausto Andrelli.
From 1514 to 1522 he was again in Strasbourg, from 1515 as a vicar and organist at St. Thomas Church. His other activities included the completion of Musicae Institutiones, based on his Vienna lectures, and the introduction of Greek studies in Strasbourg, which he also published a grammar and text editions of the Greek. In 1518 he took leave to do a doctorate pontificii to Doctor juris. As in Strasbourg continued the Reformation, he lost his post of organist 1520.
In 1523 he moved to Augsburg for the second time. He lived there in the Benedictine monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra. In 1524, he stopped at the request of Abbot John shot lectures on the Psalms, which were reflected in a Latin and German Psaltererklärung, which was printed in the same year.
Through the mediation of the Fugger family, he received a canonry and the Predigamt at St. Moritz in Augsburg.
He was a member of the delegation in 1526 Bishop Hugo of Constance for the disputation with Zwingli in Baden.
Despite his own criticism of the state of the old church, he represented the Catholic Church in Augsburg decided. This brought him into conflict with the Lutheran Council of the city, which at times in a ban from the main roads, culminated. Also the use of the Emperor Charles V and King Ferdinand did not help against a ban on preaching the Council. This meant that he had to give from his offices in Augsburg. The Fugger granted him an annual pension of 80 florins.
In 1528 he therefore moved to Freiburg im Breisgau and accepted the office of Münster preacher. He lived in the house for whale with Erasmus of Rotterdam. Making a call to Mainz and the Office of the Dean of Church of Our Lady in Munich, he refused. He undertook to travel further, in 1531 a pilgrimage to Marseille and 1532 to Mainz. In Freiburg, a close relationship to the Charterhouse in Freiburg developed, so that he was buried at his request in 1537 to the local cemetery and its extensive library (about 390 books) and bequeathed his property to the monastery. Parts of the library are now owned by the University Library Freiburg, his will is preserved in the municipal archives of Freiburg.