Conrad of Gelnhausen
Conrad of Gelnhausen (c. 1320/25 in Gelnhausen, † April 13, 1390 in Heidelberg ) was a German Catholic priest, theologian and university professor.
Life and work
The son of a notary studied since the autumn of 1339 at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he received in the spring of 1344 the degree of Bachelor of Liberal Arts and before 1347, the licentiate.
Pope Clement VI. lent Gelnhausen in 1347 at the suggestion of Archbishop of Mainz Gerlach of Nassau a canonry at Worms Cathedral and at the request of the Landgrave Henry II of Hesse a benefice in the monastery of St. Maria ad Gradus in Mainz. Innocent VI. conferred on him in 1357 on the recommendation of Emperor Charles IV, the parish Bonn village ( Überlingen ). Obviously was Conrad of Gelnhausen even then in a close relationship with the Palatinate Wittelsbach, because the Papal Nuncio, Philippe de Cabassole, Bishop of Cavaillon, described him in 1360 as a " clericus et servitor " the Elector Ruprecht I of the Palatinate. Pope Urban V appointed Gelnhausen in 1363 to pen Lord to St. Johann in Liege, Holy Sepulchre revered as a saint bishop Notger.
At the University of Bologna, he received his PhD around 1375 a doctorate in law. Then he returned to Paris, where he was in the autumn of 1378 Master of Liberal Arts. In the same year he also appears as provost of Worms.
As Doctor Theologiae left Conrad of Gelnhausen 1381 the French capital, after their university presented in the Western Schism on the side of the Avignon Antipope Clement VII. Elector Ruprecht I pulled him to his 1386 Founded in support of the Roman obedience, University of Heidelberg, where he received a professorship end of 1387 and its first Chancellor. This office he retained until his death. Conrad of Gelnhausen played a leading role in the construction of the new Palatine College; bequeathed her his book collections formed the basis of the resulting Heidelberg University Library. He also donated testamentary 1,000 florins establishing a Burse for poor students ( so-called Old Burse, Kettengasse, Heidelberg).
In the Western Schism Conrad of Gelnhausen developed - mainly in his writings - ideas for resolution of the dispute by a council, which finally in 1409 in Pisa took place (Council of Pisa), but not a solution but just another complication of the matter in the form of the past three simultaneous popes brought forth. However, the proposals were taken up again later and led in 1417 by the Council of Constance, in fact to end the schism.
Works
- Epistola brevis ( 1379 )
- Concordie Epistola ( 1380 )