A humanist in lawyer's gown: Albrecht von Eyb (1420-1475) as jurist

出身贵族的弗朗哥人阿尔布雷希特•冯•埃布可能是德国第一波人文主义者中最著名的一位。像当时许多富裕家庭的儿子一样，他离开德国到意大利的大学学习法律。仅仅15年后（1459年），他终于结束了在帕多瓦、博洛尼亚和帕维亚的学习，回到了家乡。今天，阿尔布雷希特·冯·埃布仅以他在人文主义领域的早期成就而闻名。然而，他留在国外的最初原因，以及他作为律师的职业活动，尽管他的许多专家意见保存在手稿中，但仍未被探究。该项目旨在填补长期以来令人惋惜的研究空白。在此过程中，它不仅将扩大我们对早期德国人文主义者的传记和法律工作的认识。如果从他的法律著作的角度来看，阿尔布雷希特对人文主义的兴趣可以被解释为一个更广泛的文化转移过程的一部分，通过这个过程，博学的贵族将学术文化作为一个整体从意大利带到德国。该项目需要应用多种方法，因为它将考虑到外部特征以及Albrecht法律专家意见的学习内容，以便将其作者置于过去二十年来越来越为人所知的历史背景中。对专家意见进行彻底的人格学评估，将有助于面对从阿尔布雷希特的法律业务中推断出的个人网络，以及他在人文主义者中保持的众所周知的联系。典籍学、古文字学和法律史的经典方法将发挥其潜力，特别是当对阿尔布雷希特手稿进行相应分析的结果将与意大利和德国作者的手稿进行比较时。该项目的跨学科方法支持与来自法律史、拉丁语言学和教育史等学科的合作伙伴进行紧密合作。它还构成了一个国际会议的基础，该会议将汇集项目所涉及学科的专家。该项目希望为扩大中世纪最后一个世纪欧洲的学术世界的经验基础做出贡献。它将在其时代的多维参考中展示学术知识的实际应用领域。

Albrecht von Eyb, a noble-born franconian, may count for the most renowned among the first wave of german humanists. Like many other sons of well-off families of this time, he left Germany to study the laws in Italian universities. Only fifteen years later (1459) he eventually returned home from his studies in Padua, Bologna and Pavia. Today, Albrecht von Eyb is exclusively known for his early achievements in the field of humanism. The original reason for his stay abroad, however, and his professional activity as a lawyer still remain unexplored, notwithstanding his numerous expert opinions conserved in manuscripts. The project aims at filling a research gap that has been bemoaned for a long time. In doing this, it will not only enlarge our knowledge about the biography and the legal work of an early German humanist. It will also try to explore the question if seen from the perspective of his legal writings, Albrecht's interest in humanism can be interpreted as part of a more extensive process of cultural transfer by which the learned nobleman brought learned culture as a whole from Italy to Germany. The project demands a great variety of methods applied as it will take into account the external features as well as the learned contents of Albrecht's legal expert opinions in order to place their author in a historical context that has become known better and better during the last two decades. A thorough prosopographical evaluation of the expert opinions will help to confront the personal networks deduced from Albrecht's legal business with the well-known contacts he maintained among humanists. The classical methods of codicology, paleography and legal history will deploy their potential especially when the results of a corresponding analysis of Albrecht's manuscripts will be compared to manuscripts of Italian and German authors. The project's interdisciplinary approach supports a tight cooperation with partners coming from the disciplines of legal history, Latin philology and history of education. It also forms the basis for an international conference that will bring together experts of the disciplines involved in the project. The project wants to contribute to enlarge the empirical basis of the learned world that characterized Europe during the last century of the Middle-Ages. It will show practical application-fields of academic knowledge in the pluridimensional references of its time.