Peter Agricola
Peter Agricola ( born June 29, 1525 Wood Mannheim, Baden- Württemberg, † July 5, 1585 in clean Sacker ( Randersacker ), Bavaria ) was a German statesman, humanist of the Renaissance and followers of Martin Luther.
Overview
As a preceptor he was the first educator of the son of Duke Friedrich III. of Liegnitz and later the sons of Duke Wolfgang of Pfalz- Zweibrücken on - Palatinate Neuburgischen yard. He was a school headmaster at the Latin School in Ulm and of the illustrious school in Lauingen (later Albertus -Gymnasium Lauingen ). Agricola was a princely Privy Council and reformed the neuburgischen schools. He was also involved in the affairs of the principalities of the Holy Roman Empire. Peter Agricola was an above-average educated man and was regarded as a skilled negotiator. His impartiality was praised. He was considered an excellent administrator. At the same time he fought in his writing for a human co-existence of humans.
Family
The Peter Agricola's family came from the area of Ulm. His father Magnus Agricola was a guest host and judges on wood home and former student at Ingolstadt. He was in Rome at a Cardinal and supporters of the Benedictine Order, Jean de Bilheres de Lagraulas, accustomed as he wanted to enter the monastery Elchingen originally. Through nepotism to the Holy See by Pope Alexander VI. and because of the future Pope Julius II war behavior, however, he took part in the Italian wars. Magnus Agricola fought in the years 1494 to 1497 under King Charles VIII of France at the royal troops, before he returned to Germany. There he studied the writings of Martin Luther.
1575 joined Peter Agricola a marriage with Diana Clelius, widow of the astronomer, mathematician and astrologer Cyprian of Leowitz, Hoflehrer to Neuburg and Head of School Illustrious Lauingen. She died on November 24, 1581 at the age of 47 years and this marriage remained childless. Agricola's nephew was the Magister Magnus Agricola, theologian and superintendent in Neuburg, he also promoted.
Life and work
Peter Agricola attended the Latin school in Ulm, where he worked as a private tutor. He enrolled on March 12, 1543 when Peter Agricola, of wood home at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg, studied and received on June 18, 1544 the Bachelor. He appeared in Wittenberg, where he was enrolled in September 1544 Petrus Agricola Ulmensis and again in 1548, after which he received a master's degree on May 3, 1549. In Wittenberg he had Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon as a teacher. As a friend of Philipp Melanchthon, he was born on April 20, 1550 Teaching and disciplinarian of Heinrich XI. , Son of Duke Friedrich III. of Liegnitz.
From 1557 to 1559 he served as rector of the Latin school in Ulm, where he was co-author of Schuldordung of Ludwig Rabus. In 1559 he went to the Diet of Augsburg to discuss Duke Heinrich XI. , His former student, who was in a difficult situation against Emperor Ferdinand I.. Peter Agricola rejected another offer from a consultant of this prince, though the imperial advisers warning village urgently advised him to do so. Also a range of Hieronymus Wolf, to be at the high school at St. Anna in Augsburg member or director of the Faculty, he refused. Instead, he was, thanks to his friend Ulrich seat Inger, with whom he had studied in Wittenberg, rector of the newly founded Princely school Lauingen.
On April 30, 1561 Peter Agricola was also indicates Ulrich seat Ingers recommendation, Hofmeister in Neuburg an der Donau. The eldest sons of Prince Wolfgang of Pfalz- Zweibrücken, Philipp Ludwig and Johann were informed in advance of Marius Hofmeister Konrad. " But when this was removed because of its inclination to Calvin's doctrine was the formation of de [r ] inquisitive young prince, especially de [r ] s transmit zealous instruction in Luther's doctrine of Peter Agricola". In the certificate of appointment it is, Agricola aims in particular to the Prince Philipp Ludwig to " exercise in Latin and in French " stop. Until 1569 Wolfgang von Pfalz -Zweibrücken sent the brothers with the tutor to the studies to Lauingen. The Strasbourg Rector Johannes Sturm attended a public exam, held in December 1564 in Neuburg by Peter Agricola with the prince and boasted of their knowledge. In general, the Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts is this: " [ ... ] is passed to distant training of management and the lessons [ ... ] the famous Peter Agricola, Duke John was a very learned man, the Latin, Greek and French language powerful, proficient in arithmetic, logic and rhetoric well. " storm met the Neuburger royal tutor Agricola know and recommended him to the domestic Scholarchen for an appeal to Strasbourg. To this end, it did not come.
After the government takeover in 1569 appointed Duke Philipp Ludwig Agricola to the Privy Council of Neuburg. In 1583 he was also titular of Zweibrücken. Although he wanted to become Evangelical Lutheran pastor before he went completely in the service of the Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken and Philip Louis of Neuburg, who sent him on diplomatic missions. As Minister of State, he made many trips to the Holy Roman Empire and thanks to his fame, he received money from German princes as a support for the theologians of the Reformation. He advised his prince to acquire the library Wolfius for the school and had regular correspondence with David Chytraeus, a college friend from the time at the University of Wittenberg. Although Agricola went to visit a health resort, the prince asked him to travel with him to Dusseldorf, to take part in the wedding of Duke Johann Wilhelm of Jülich- Kleve -Berg with Jakobi of Baden -Baden. Peter Agricola died on the return journey on the road between Schweinfurt and Ansbach in clean Sacker ( Randersacker ) near Würzburg. His body was brought to Ochsenfurt before he was buried the next day in the presence of the Duke of Neuburg in Uffenheim.