Gregory of Heimburg
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Gregory of Heimburg (Gregorius Heimburgensis) (b. at Würzburg in the beginning of the fifteenth century; d. at Tharandt near Dresden, August, 1472) was a German jurist, humanist and statesman.
Biography
About 1430, Gregory received the degree of Doctor of Both Laws at the
He left Basle in 1433, when he was elected
In 1446 he was again placed at the head of an embassy to Eugene IV. The pope had deposed the Archbishops of
On the advice of Frederick III the pope sent Cardinal
Gregory, who had considered even the declaration of neutrality an ignoble concession, was disappointed at this turn of events and decided to abandon ecclesiastical politics. During the negotiations between the pope and the electors there appeared the anonymous "Admonitio de injustis usurpationibus paparum" or, as Matthias Flacius entitles it, "Confutatio primatus papæ", which is generally ascribed to Gregory.
In 1458 Gregory entered the service of Albert of Austria and his opposition to papal authority was again aroused. Æneas Sylvius had ascended the papal throne as Pius II the same year, and soon afterwards (1459) summoned the princes of Christendom to Mantua to plan a crusade against the Turks. Gregory was present as the representative of
His next important writing, "Invectiva in Nicolaum de Cusa", appeared in 1461. Shortly before the death of Pius II in 1464, Sigismund made his peace with the Church, but Gregory was not absolved. In 1466 he was taken into the service of
After the death of George Podiebrad (22 March 1471) Gregory took refuge in Saxony. Writing to the
Works
His writings were published at Frankfort in 1608 under the title "Scripta nervosa justiaque plena ex manuscriptis nunc primum eruta". They may be found in Goldast, "Monarchia", in Marquard Freher, "Scriptores rerum Germanicarum", and in Joachimsohn (see below).
References
- Clemens Brockhaus, Gregor von Heimburg (Leipzig, 1861)
- Paul Joachimsen, Gregor Heimburg (Bamberg, 1891)
- Ludwig von Pastor, The History of the Popes, tr. Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (2nd ed., St. Louis, 1902), IV
- Johann Baptist Stamminger in Kirchenlex., s.v. Heimburg
- Paul Tschackert in Realencyck. für. Prot. Theol., s. v. Gregor von Heimburg
- Alois Knoepfler in Kirchliches Handlex., s. v. Heimburg.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Gregory of Heimburg". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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