Conrad of Gelnhausen
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Conrad of Gelnhausen (c. 1320 – 1390) was a German theologian and canon lawyer, and one of the founders of the conciliar movement of the late fourteenth century.
Details of his life are sketchy. He was baccalaureus at the University of Paris in 1344. For the two decades after then he can be tracked by prebends he is known to have had, in various places in Germany. He turned towards the law later in his career.
His influence was through writings from around 1380, after the Western Schism of 1378, the Epistola brevis and the Epistola concordiae. These appealed for the calling of an autonomous General Council to settle matters. This idea was taken up by others, such as Henry of Langenstein.
References
- R. N. Swanson, Universities, Academics, and the Great Schism, 1979, 59–68,
- Hans-Jürgen Becker, Konrad von Gelnhausen. Die kirchenpolitischen Schriften (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018).
External links
- Roland Böhm (1992). "Konrad von Gelnhausen". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 4. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 387–388. ISBN 3-88309-038-7.
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- CS1 German-language sources (de)
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1320s births
- 1390 deaths
- 14th-century Roman Catholic theologians
- 14th-century German clergy
- Canon law jurists
- Year of birth uncertain
- German male writers
- 14th-century jurists