Christoph von Scheurl

Christoph Scheurl ( born November 11, 1481 Nuremberg, † June 14, 1542 ) was a German jurist, diplomat and humanist.

Life

Born as the son of immigrants from Wroclaw to Nuremberg businessman Christoph Scheurl ( 1457-1519 ) and his wife Helena ( née Tucher ), Scheurl initially received a thorough education in the home of his parents by private tutors. He was a private student of the " mathematician " Leonhard bird. Determined to a study of law, he moved in 1497, the University of Heidelberg and moved a year later to the University of Bologna. There humanism gained decisive influence on his development. Nevertheless, he continued his law studies were hampered by the fact that his father lost his fortune in 1501. Due to the maternal relatives support, he was able to continue his studies and doctorate on December 22, 1506 doctor of canon and civil law.

With the support of Johann von Staupitz Scheurl was conveyed to the Elector Frederick the Wise, in the spring of 1507 for a professorship at the University of Wittenberg, the Leucorea, signed him. After he had reached on April 8 in Wittenberg, he participated in the April 13, 1507 on his lectures and taught canon law and the " Humana Literas " and took over at the same time on May 1, the Rector of the Academy. In his efforts to raise the level of the university, he drafted new statutes modeled after the University of Bologna. His efforts bore fruit and attracted more humanistic teachers at the Leucorea, which was also associated with an increase in students interested. He was appointed in 1508 the Duke of Saxony Council and assessor of the Duke of Saxony Court in Leipzig and Altenburg. Although Elector Frederick would have liked to keep him in the manner Wittenberg, followed a Scheurl took place in December 1511 calling for Nuremberg, where he took up the post of Legal Counsel on January 5, 1512.

As such, he was active in diplomatic missions on behalf of the Nuremberg Council. So he traveled to Spain in 1513 to bring the newly elected King Charles V the congratulations of the City of Nuremberg. In 1522 he was one of the envoys who negotiated with Archduke Ferdinand over the Turks in Vienna help. In 1523 he was because of the Nuremberg complaints against the Empire farewell again at the imperial court. Reformation historical importance it gained through the mediation of a humanist friendship between Johann Eck and Martin Luther as well as the sending of the 95 theses of Luther.

Works (selection)

  • De rebus gestis Alberti Ducis Saxioniae
  • De Vita Ant Cressenis
  • Tractatus de sacerdorum & ecclesiasticarum rerum praestantia, Leipzig 1511
  • Lib De laudibus Germaniae & Ducum Saxoniae, Leipzig 1508
  • Epist. Ad Charit. Pirckhameram, Nuremberg 1513
  • Epist. Ad Charit. Pirckhameram, Nuremberg 1513
  • Epist. Ad Staupitium de statu immersive regimine reipubl. Noricae
  • Epist. Ad Petr. Bernstein, 1580
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