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

阿尔布雷希特冯埃布，一个高贵出生的法兰克人，可能是最有名的第一波德国人文主义者。和当时许多富裕家庭的孩子一样，他离开德国，到意大利的大学学习法律。仅仅15年后（1459年），他终于从帕多瓦、博洛尼亚和帕维亚的学习中回到了家中。今天，阿尔布雷希特·冯·埃布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专业活动仍然没有得到探讨，尽管他的许多专家意见保存在手稿中。该项目旨在填补一个长期以来一直令人哀叹的研究空白。这样做，它不仅将扩大我们对一位早期德国人文主义者的传记和法律的著作的了解。它也将试图探讨这个问题，如果从他的法律的著作的角度来看，阿尔布雷希特的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，有学问的贵族把有学问的文化作为一个整体从意大利带到德国。该项目需要应用各种各样的方法，因为它将考虑到外部特征以及Albrecht的法律的专家意见的学习内容，以便将其作者置于过去二十年中越来越为人所知的历史背景中。对专家意见进行彻底的人物学评价，将有助于我们正视从阿尔布雷希特的法律的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。经典的方法codicology，古文字学和法律的历史将部署其潜力，特别是当相应的分析结果Albrecht的手稿将比较意大利和德国作家的手稿。该项目的跨学科方法支持与来自法律的历史、拉丁语言学和教育史等学科的合作伙伴密切合作。它还构成了一个国际会议的基础，该会议将汇集参与该项目的学科专家。该项目希望有助于扩大中世纪最后世纪欧洲所特有的学术世界的经验基础。它将展示其时代多维参考文献中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.