Hermann von dem Busche
Hermann of the bush ( e), also Hermannus Buschius, πασίφιλος - Pasiphilus, Westphalus (* 1468 in Sass Mountain, † April 1534 in Dülmen ) was a German humanist.
Life
Of noble lineage, originating devoted himself from the bush to the study of science and came in his youth to Rudolf von Langen to Münster. This encouraged him and he entered with the aid of the school of Alexander Hegius in Deventer, and moved in 1487 to Heidelberg to study with Rudolf Agricola. When he died, he moved to Tübingen and soon after to Italy where he stayed with Langen five years until 1491. In Italy he gained a high level of expertise lay primarily on the Latin language a special value and wrote there two epigrammatic books.
Long tried to gain a permanent position at the court of the Bishop of Münster Heinrich von Schwarzenberg of the bush. However, this would further pursue his studies. He traveled to Paris and turned in 1494 to the old University of Cologne, where he taught Humanoria and devoted himself to the study of law. Disgusted by the study of law, he went on tour to spread his humanistic teachings. So he went to Hamm, Münster, Osnabrück, Bremen, Hamburg, Lübeck and Wismar probably also in 1495, the University of Bologna. However, his ideas should also look at the universities feeder. So he went in 1501 to the University of Rostock, where contrary to hit him some displeasure because of his new doctrine. After a short stay at the University of Greifswald, he went in 1502 to the newly founded University of Wittenberg, where he took over the editing of rhetoric and poetics and gave the opening speech.
However, he remained here not long and went in the summer of 1503 at the University of Leipzig, where he became professor of poetics and rhetoric. He continued his studies and earned the Baccalaurusgrad ( legum ). In his time in Leipzig, he wrote poems and published a book. 1506 he left Leipzig, Erfurt humanists communicated with the circle around Mutian and returned in 1507 back to Cologne. There he fought with the humanists hostile Dominicans and stood in the dispute between John Reuchlin and Johannes Pfefferkorn by its participation in the Dark Men's letters on the side of Reuchlin. Even in literature, he was active polemically against the scholastic forms of teaching. As a supporter of Reuchlin and Erasmus of Rotterdam, he was soon in Cologne untenable so that it is - probably through the mediation of Hermann of Neuenahr - as headmaster went to Wesel on Emmerich 1516.
When Martin Luther published his 95 theses, Busche was on its side. In 1523 he received a call from University of Heidelberg, where he followed. One other professor he followed to the University of Marburg in 1527 and participated as followers of Luther in a dialogue of faith in Münster. From the bush next to his published poems and epigrams also writings from the context of his academic instruction.