Dietrich of Nieheim
Dietrich von Niem or Nieheim also Nyem (* 1345 in Brakel, in the Bishopric of Paderborn, † March 22, 1418 in Maastricht) was a historian at the Curia in Rome, Bishop of Verden and German representatives at the Council of Constance.
Life
Dietrich went early age to Rome, where, although he studied law, but never took a degree. Nevertheless, he worked from about 1370 as a lawyer at the papal court in Avignon in 1376 and returned back to Rome. There, placed him Pope Urban VI. at the papal chancery, where he was also responsible for the compilation of the firm rules. Urban took him with him on his 1383 visit to Charles of Naples. He got into all sorts of trouble, the 1385 to leave him prompted the Curia. A role may have played in that he had lucrative livings from various Rhenish dioceses gives.
1395 named him Pope Boniface IX. for the diocese of Verden. There he met with considerable resistance, especially from the cathedral chapter, which had already rejected his appointment. In 1398 he resigned as bishop of Verden. The romtreue cleric made his 1399 particularly strong for the desired setting from the Pope the Lombard Bertrando d' Arvazzano as Bishop of Paderborn, but this failed due to opposition of the Estates in 1400. 1401 withdrew it Boniface the diocese again. Dietrich returned to the Papal office in Rome, where he is mentioned again in 1403.
Meanwhile he had ( Maria dell'Anima Teutonico Collegio di Santa ) participated in the founding of a German Hospice in Rome and started a chronicle of the fragments are only delivered.
Its main significance lies in its participation in the controversy over the Pope schism, in which he intervened at the latest in 1399 with numerous writings. Especially Dietrich argued strongly against simony and for a renewed church unity. In May 1408 he accompanied Pope Gregory XII. to Lucca. As this is not took in a mediation, he joined the Roman and Avignon cardinals at Pisa and became a follower of the newly elected Alexander V. and his successor John XXIII. and returned to the Curia. There, however, he walked a very for a general council, and participated in the German nation at the Council of Constance.
In the philology Nieheim is mentioned, as his correspondence ( 1411 ) with a native of Hanover Johannes Schele - contains the earliest known mention of a Eulenspiegel Scripture - the later Bishop of Lübeck ( 1420-1439 ).