Felix Hemmerlin

Felix Hemmerlin ( Felix malleolus, Felix and Felix Hemmerlein Hemmerli; * 1388/89 in Zurich, † 1458-1461 in Lucerne ) was a politician and church heraldry.

Training

Hemmerlin studied from 1413 church law in Erfurt, where he Baccalaureus Iuris Canonici 1418 the took off, and in Bologna, where he graduated in 1424 with the Doctor decretorum. In 1414 he became a notary, in 1430 he was ordained a priest.

Ecclesiastical career

From 1411 to 1437 was Hemmerlin Canons in the monastery of St. Mauritius in Zofingen, from 1412 to 1454 also Canons on Grossmünsterplatz in Zurich, 1429-1454 Kantor also ibid. From 1421 to 1455 he was pastor at the Cathedral of St. Ursus et Victor in Solothurn.

1414 visited Hemmerlin the Council of Constance. From 1432 to 1435 Hemmerlin worked in the Committee on the reform of the Church at the Council of Basel.

Writings

Hemmerlin took on the legal and political issues of his time position. As of 1444, the " Book of the nobility" ( " De nobilitate et rusticitate dialogus " ), in which he can live a long debate about the merits of the nobility a farmer and a nobleman arose. In the work, he also took over 73 crest descriptions in couplets ( together 146 verses ) of the Konrad von Mure written shortly before 1250 Crest poem " Clipearius Teutonicorum ", which is narrated only here. His heraldic knowledge he owes to the magazine " De armis et insigniis " the jurist Bartolo de Saxoferrato.

Retirement

1454 Hemmerlin was arrested in Zurich and deprived of his offices Hewen for disobedience by the Bishop of Constance Henry. He was imprisoned in the Franciscan monastery Lucerne, where he perhaps died 1458-1461. His last known writings, the " registrum queralae " and the treatise " de religiosis proprietariis praecepta domini praedicantibus " ( 1457 ), refute apparently the assumption that he had died at that time in the monastery prison, rather is to suggest that he same after the recovered freedom has written. He dies in any case before 1464, probably around 1460 to 1461, as Canons of Solothurn and Zofingen and pastor of Penthaz, perhaps the latter place under the protection of his benevolent Bishop of Lausanne, George of Saluzzo.