Peter Luder

Peter Luder, sometimes Peter Luder, (* 1415 in Kislau at Mingolsheim Kraichgau, † 1472 ) was a native of a poor family hiking German speakers, humanist, physician and scholar.

Life

Peter Luder was born as the son of John Hussy Kislau at this location around 1415. His year of birth was calculated by assuming that the final choice then usual age of 16 went to the University of Heidelberg in 1431.

For the summer semester 1431 Peter Luder enrolled at the University of Heidelberg. In 1433 he went not finish, and destitute of adventure to Italy, from where his journey led him over in 1434 Rome, Venice, the Adriatic Sea through the Balkans to Albania, Macedonia and Greece. Approximately 1440 before he began his humanistic studies at the University of Ferrara, where for years he heard the famous Guarino Veronese. He focused on history, rhetoric and poetry, also visited Guarino private school and was a guest in his house. From Pastor to Pastor and from monastery to monastery, he wandered in the Mediterranean, also to ship. 1445 Luder in Venice is on record. The ruler of the Republic, the Doge Francesco Foscari, appointed him notary and awarded him the honorary title of a shield carrier.

At the invitation of the Elector Frederick I, he broke out in May 1456 on to Heidelberg and held there on July 14, 1456 his first lecture. Bitch came with his speech at the University of Heidelberg scholastic resistance. So were many of the scholastic professors to represent slut studia against humanitatis negative. The reason for this could probably have been be more liberal lifestyle. His hope of getting a job as a professor in Heidelberg, was disappointed, constant money worries were the result.

On February 11, 1458 Luder gave a eulogy of Elector Frederick the Victorious in the university.

In late summer 1460 he was in Ulm. End of the year he was then taken to the University of Erfurt, from which he moved to the University of Leipzig two years later, where he initiated the humanism in Germany with his inaugural speech. Among his pupils there was one Hartmann Schedel, author of Schedel 's World Chronicle.

In the same year ( 1462 ) he returned to Padua, because he probably realized that only one title offered the chance to secure employment. Then the Count Palatine asked his humanists, including to contact and return at no one in the service. 1463/1464 began slut, along with Hartmann Schedel, a medical degree at the University of Padua, on June 2, 1464 follows finally got his promotion.

1468 returned slut back to the German -speaking area. At the University of Basel you needed him as a physician and humanist. Slut enters the service of Duke Sigismund of Tyrol.

In March 1470 an Austrian delegation comes to the Burgundian court in Bruges, including Peter Lüderer, Doctor of Medicine, for the use of diplomatic he is remunerated with 30 guilders. A new track can be found at the University of Vienna, where he has entered in the summer semester 1470 in the matriculation as Dominus Peter Luder de Kyslaw Spirensis Diocesis doctor in medicin.

One of his students notes in his diary that bitch had died in 1472. Thus he will have been only 57 years old.

Luders prominent student in Heidelberg were the well-known early German humanists of Kemnat Matthias and Stefan Hoest. With Matthias von Kemnat, later chaplain and historiographer of Elector Frederick I, joined Luder a very personal, close friendship. Luders successor in Heidelberg was the theologian Stephan Hoest.

The famous " Kislauer ", who described himself as small of stature and black hair, is an outstanding example of early humanism in Germany for university research.

Judgments slut

For a long time the assessment of his work in a relatively negative light. Because the judgments of William Watt Bach and Georg Voigt have a decisive share. While acknowledging it, that bitch has played a vital role in spreading humanist philosophy. Nevertheless, they were primarily taken in by their infirmities, which he placed as a personality beyond all doubt to the day. Luder as Latin teacher also not operational, the actual restocking of antiquity, but refers to the Neulatein. Today, he is appreciated primarily as a pioneer to spread the ideas of the Italian Renaissance humanism in Germany.

Writings

• Peter Luder, lecture announcements. In: W. Trillitzsch: The German Renaissance humanism. Frankfurt 1981, p 149-152 (see also listed under Literature of Wattenbach, Bertalot and Bockelmann )