Veit Amerbach

Veit Amerbach, also Amerpach, Trolman, Vitus Amerpachius (* around 1503 in Wemding, † September 13, 1557 in Ingolstadt ), was a German scholar and humanist.

Life

Veit Trollmann was born the son of the farmer Hans Trollmann († 1520 ). Up to the age of 14 he attended in his hometown Wemding at Weth the Latin School and then went to study at the University of Ingolstadt. On July 7, 1521, he enrolled at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. The following year he moved to the University of Wittenberg, where he met the reformer Martin Luther and the humanist Philipp Melanchthon, who shaped his future. He was a teacher at the Latin School in 1528 in Eisleben, where he came into contact with John Agricola of Eisleben Through the mediation of Luther. 1528 had the Wittenberg University Leucorea relocated because of the plague to Jena. Here he continued his philosophical studies with the acquisition of Magistergrad found their financial statements on December 12, 1529. In 1529 he married a Elisabeth; from the marriage were born eleven children.

As a Master he lay down a Latin scholar's name ( = Vitus Vitus, Amerpachius after Amerbach to Wemding, the place of origin of his father ). 1530 Amerbach was included in the Senate of the faculty of arts at the University of Wittenberg, was in 1532, and in the winter semester 1538/39 Dean of the Faculty of Arts and was - after 1529 on Pädagogium provided a professorship - 1535 Professor of Physics. Luther and Gregor Brück sent him in 1541 in the Saxon Consistory for participation in the sovereign government of the Church. In -depth study of the Fathers Amerbach came to a different conclusion, so that disagreements arose to Reformation ideas, especially with regard to the doctrine of justification and of the papal primacy. Then appeared in 1542, his rebuttal to Philipp Melanchthon " Commentarius de anima".

1543 Amerpachius left Wittenberg and returned with his wife and children to the Catholic Church. He then received by the Prince-Bishop Moritz von Hutten ( 1539-52 ) a position at the cathedral school at Eichstätt, which had become meaningless almost among other things because of the proximity of the State University of Ingolstadt and who wanted to enhance the Prince-Bishop by efficient teachers like Vitus Amerpachius and reform. But got the following year, a professor in Ingolstadt offered Amperpachius, he gave up his position in Eichstätt on immediately. At the University of Ingolstadt he lectured on Aristotelian philosophy and rhetoric. Soon he enjoyed a widespread reputation as Horace and Cicero commentator, but also dabbled himself as a poet in Latin. During his many years of teaching in Ingolstadt he also advocated a philosophy of equality with the other faculties.

He was buried in Ingolstadt Münster.

Works

• Oratio de doctoratu Philosophico, in: V. Rotmar, Tome I orationum Ingolstadiensium. Ingolstadt 1571, sheet 351 f;
• Three letters Amerbachs to Julius Pflug 1548/49, in: Ch G. Müller, P. Epistolae Mosellani etc. ... ad Julium Pflugium ... 1802, page 119-125;
• Neulat. Poems, in: Deliciae poetarum Germanorum, 4 vols, Frankfurt 1612; Some Latin poems / sayings Amerbachs
• Quatuor libri de anima, 4 Books, 1542 ( rebuttal to Philipp Melanchthon Commentarius de anima, 1540).

Detailed directory in:

• Wetzer and Welte 's Church dictionary or Encyclopedia of Catholic theology and its auxiliary sciences. 2nd Edition, Volume I, 1882, 709-711 Sp.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: General scholars lexicon. Volume 1, 1750, Sp 341
• Johann Christoph Adelung: Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöchers general scholar - Lexico. Volume 1, 1784, Sp 722