Albert Krantz

Albert Krantz, also Crantz or Crantzius, (c. 1448 in Hamburg, † December 7, 1517 in Hamburg) was a scholar and clergyman as well as syndic and diplomat on behalf of the Hanseatic cities of Lübeck and Hamburg.

Life

Krantz, son of Eggert Krantz, moved after visiting the cathedral school in Hamburg in 1463, the University of Rostock ( 1465 Baccalaureus, 1467 MA, 1480 Professor, 1481-86 Dean of the Faculty of Arts ) and was in 1482 elected rector there. 1483 he participated in the grave opening of his patron saint Albertus Magnus part in Cologne, encountering together with Konrad Celtis.

1486-91 Krantz appeared as a syndic in Lubeck services ( probably because of the Rostock Domstreits ) and supported there, the Syndic John Osthusen. 1491 Krantz went to Mainz ( doctorate in Canon Law ) and finished his studies in 1493 in Perugia ( Dr. theol. ).

Since May 1493 primarius lector at the Hamburger Dom, at the same time working as a syndic of Lübeck, Hamburg and commissioner of the Hanseatic League, he wrote in the years to philosophical and theological writings. 1496/97 he advised Senatssyndicus as the mayor of Hamburg Hermann Langenbeck together with the Lübeck syndic Mattheus Packebusch in the revision of municipal law (City Code), which became in 1497 the force of law. The dispute of the Council with the cathedral chapter in Hamburg interrupted his diplomatic activity, as induced the interdict a break in the language editing, Krantz to draw up a comprehensive history of the North German Hanseatic total space in six books used ( 1500-02, with supplements to 1504 / 09). In 1503 he conveyed together with the Duke Friedrich of Schleswig under the direction of the bishop and papal envoy Raimund Peraudi the contract between the Sten Sture the Elder with. allied six Wendish towns under the leadership of Lübeck, and John I of Denmark.

The posthumously published works Wandalia (Cologne 1519), Saxonia (Cologne 1520), Chronica regnorum aquilonarium [ Dania, Suecia, Norvagia ] (Eng. 1545 Latin Strasbourg 1546) and Metropolis (Basel 1548) combine the approach of superior Hanseatic diplomats, the coined by Italian models humanists and the reform-minded but conservative theologians. Even after the election to Domdekan in Hamburg in 1508 officiated Krantz there as Syndic until his death.

Particular importance its historical work as a " historian of the North", the history of Lower Saxony, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, in particular the history of the Church, and the Wandalia, history of contact.

Works

• » Wandalia " ( Cologne, 1519 ): "The Fürtrefflichen Hochgelahrten Mr. Albert crantzii Wandalia Or. Description Wendischer story: Therein the actual contact Vrspuung mancherley Volcker VND vielfaltige transformations ... From what sol wol in ... kingdoms ... Wendischer VND other nations in Dennemarcken / Sweden / Poland / Vngarn / Böhemen / Austria / Moravians / Silesia / Brandenburg / Prussia / Reussen / Lieffland / Pomerania / Mecklenburg / Holstein " (Lübeck: Young, 1636 )
• » Wandalia ". De Wandalorum vera origine, variis Gentibus, crebrisepatria migrationibus, regnis item, quorum vel vel autores euersores fuerunt. (Frankfurt 1575) digitized
• " Saxonia " ( Cologne, 1520): " Weitleufftige, diligent and correct description of Ankunfft, customs, regiment, Religion, Policeyen, wars ... and all sorts of stories ... the Saxons, then several hundred year before Christ's birth and to fol_ 1504 happened " (Leipzig 1582).
• " Chronica regnorum aquilonarium [ Dania, Suecia, Norvagia ] " (Eng. 1545 Latin Strasbourg 1546): " Dennmärckische, Swedish VND [ and ] Norwägische Chronica / The hochberhümpten Albertum Krantzium of Hamburg ... bitz vff the jarzal Christ MD verteütscht iiij beschriben. Newlich by Henrich of Eppendorff " (Strasbourg 1545 )
• " Metropolis " ( Basel 1548): "Metropolis seu episcoporum in viginti dioecesibus Saxoniae catalogus usque ad annum 1585 deducta " (Strasbourg 1585 )