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Caritas Pirckheimer (21 March 1467 – 19 August 1532) was Abbess of Saint Clara's convent in Nuremberg at the time of the Reformation, which she opposed due to the threat posed by Martin Luther to Catholic houses of worship and religious buildings, including her own convent.
Caritas Pirckheimer was born into a family that valued humanist scholarship and monastic life. She pursued both in exemplary fashion, employing her learning to cultivate devotion. From her activities as a young woman we can see how humanist studies were absorbed by one who had limited access to them and how male humanists viewed a woman who ...
18 de mar. de 2023 · Summary. When Caritas Pirckheimer, abbess of the Nürnberg cloister of St. Clare’s, died in 1532, her obituary in the cloister's Totenbüchlein included the simple words “a mirror of all piety and learning and a lover of all virtues.”
11 de jan. de 2016 · During the early years of the Reformation, from 1524-1528, Caritas Pirckheimer, a Poor Clare nun who lived in Nuremburg, kept a sort of diary of letters and conversations known as the Denkwürdigkeiten (“memorable items”).
Caritas Pirckheimer was born into a family that valued humanist scholarship and monastic life. She pursued both in exemplary fashion, employing her learning to cul-
Considered by Erasmus to be one of the most learned women in Germany, Caritas Pirckheimer was also termed the German Sappho by Celtis, the Poet Laureate of Germ...
This chapter examines the well-known Denkwürdigkeiten of Caritas Pirckheimer, the abbess of the Poor Clare convent in the Imperial City of Nuremberg. 1 Pirckheimer fought to save her convent from closure after the city council converted to Lutheranism in 1525.
