Jakob Wimpfeling

Jacob Wimpfeling, also Wimpheling, Wympfeling ( born July 27, 1450 Schlettstadt, † November 17, 1528 ) was a Catholic priest, poet, teacher and historian of German humanism.

Life

Wimpfeling Jacob was born in 1450 as the son of a saddler in Schlettstatt. He learned first education at the local grammar school of Ludwig Dringenberg. After the death of his father in 1463 he moved to Sulz, where his uncle worked as a pastor. This prompted Wimpfeling to take a course of study. From 1464 he studied at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau ( among others, Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg and Konrad Stürzel ), started in 1466 in Erfurt and from 1469 to 1470 in Heidelberg philosophy and theology. In 1471 he earned the title of Master of Arts and then turned to the study of canon law to. At the same time he began teaching at the University of Heidelberg. 1478/79 he served as Vice-Chancellor, 1479/80 as dean and 1481/82 as rector of the Faculty of Arts of Heidelberg. In 1483 he gave up his chair and went to Speyer in 1484, where he and later worked as a ( unofficial ) Domprediger as Vicar. After 14 years working in Speyer in 1498 he returned back to Heidelberg, where he taught until 1501 as a professor Poetics and Rhetoric at the Faculty of Arts. From 1501 he lived with shorter interruptions as a writer in Strasbourg, before he returned to his hometown in 1515.

With his book Germania in the year 1501 Wimpfeling regarded as the founder of a national German historiography. In it, he attempted to carry out the proof of the equivalence of the German past in relation to French and Italian humanists. This resulted in exaggeration at its source interpretation that led to the dispute with the Strasbourg theologian Thomas Murner.

He is next to Johannes Reuchlin the first major representative of the German humanist drama. With the writings of De Integritate, Isidoneus germanicus, diatriba de proba puerorum institutione and Adolescentia he was leading the way for contemporary pedagogy.

In addition, Jacob Wimpfeling is with his " Catalogus Archiepiscoporum Moguntinorum " for the Mainz diocese historiography of great importance.

Wimpfeling initially welcomed the emergence of Martin Luther, however represented, despite sharp criticism of the worldliness of the clergy later a predominantly Catholic humanism.

History of Research

A not inconsiderable proportion of the rediscovery Wimpfeling has the Alsatian teacher Josef Knepper ( 1864-1906 ). The most important Wimpfeling researcher of the 20th century were the historian Otto Herding ( 1911-2001 ) and his student Dieter Mertens.

Works

  • Stylpho, 1480 ( printed 1494) published in 1971 as volume 7952 of Reclam Universal library in Latin and German. Editor and translator: Harry C. String, Title: Stylpho / Jacob Wimpheling
  • Volume 1: Adolescentia. Edited by Otto Herding, Paderborn 1965
  • Volume 2.1: The Life of John Geiler of Kaysersberg. Edited by Otto Herding, Munich 1970
  • Volume 2.2: Catalogus Archiepiscoporum Moguntinorum. History of the archbishops of Mainz, Edited by Dieter Mertens and Mark Muller, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4384-7
  • Volume 3.1: Exchange of letters. Edited by Otto Herding and Dieter Mertens, Bader Born 1990, ISBN 3-7705-2603-1 digitized
  • Volume 3.1: Exchange of letters. Edited by Otto Herding and Dieter Mertens, Bader Born 1990, ISBN 3-7705-2604- X digitized
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