Konrad Peutinger
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Konrad Peutinger (IPA:
Life
He was born in Augsburg, the son of a reputable merchant family. He studied law at the universities of Padua in the Venetia and Bologna in Italy,[3] where he obtained his doctorate and came in close touch with the humanism movement. Back in Germany, he was elected syndic of his hometown Augsburg and from 1497 held the office of a town clerk (Stadtschreiber), representing the city in several Imperial diets, notably that of Worms including the hearing of Martin Luther in 1521. Peutinger's accounts were a valuable source for later historians like Theodor Kolde.
He was on close terms with the
In Augsburg, he established and headed the learned
It was through his influence that Ulrich von Hutten got crowned as a Poet Laureate by Maximilian. Peutinger's daughter Konstantia made the laurel wreath herself.[6]
Work
Peutinger corresponded with notable contemporary humanist scholars like
As the author of the Romanae vetustatis fragmenta (published in 1505), Peutinger was the first German scholarly epigraphist.[7]
Peutinger's name is usually associated with the famous
Peutinger also first printed the
As an economist and politician, Peutinger played an important role in the monopoly debates of the 16th century. He advised Charles V to allow monopolies on luxury goods, but not on everyday necessities (res viviles) like grain and wine.[9] He also drafted progressive trade laws when working for Maximilian. Crossen calls him "the first great philosophical evangelist of the profit system."[10] During the debate among the Imperial Estates at the 1522–1523 Nuremberg Diet concerning whether the capital stocks of large companies should be limited to 50,000 florin and whether acceptance of external capital should be banned, Peutinger advocated for the large merchants, saying that such methods would only benefit foreigners and that the mining boom created by the activities of large companies had helped to lower prices for the common man.[11]
Peutinger advocated church reform and was an early supporter of Martin Luther. As an official of Augsburg though, he guided the Augsburg Council towards the "middle way" (between wholesale reform and reactionary politics). By 1525, he declared that Luther had presented solid truths from the Scripture, but Luther's posion on some matter should be rejected. He advised the Council not to accept any statement that condemned Luther as seductive and heretical.[12][13]
Notes
- ISBN 978-0-521-16706-2. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
- ISBN 978-0-674-25412-1. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
- ^ New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ Becker 1981, p. 40.
- ISBN 978-90-04-41605-5. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
- ISBN 978-3-11-091274-6. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
- ISBN 978-3-261-04727-4. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
- ^ Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1849, "Jornandes"[1]
- ISBN 978-90-04-32042-0. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
- ISBN 978-0-8129-3267-6. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
- ISBN 978-0-8139-3258-3. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
- ISBN 978-90-04-21698-3. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
- ISBN 978-90-04-52595-5. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Peutinger Konrad". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
- https://www.livius.org/pen-pg/peutinger/map.html Archived 2016-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
- Three unknown formulas of the humanist Konrad Peutinger on www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- . Catholic Encyclopedia. 1913.
- Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries[dead link] High resolution images of works by and/or portraits of Konrad Peutinger in .jpg and .tiff format.
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