Karl von Miltitz (Nuncio)

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Karl von Miltitz (* around 1490 in Rabenau or Scharfenberg , † November 20, 1529 in Steinheim ) was papal nuncio and negotiated with Martin Luther .

Life

ancestry

Miltitz belonged to the Saxon noble family Miltitz . His parents were Sigismund von Miltitz, governor of Meissen in Pirna, and his second wife, Klara von Schleinitz . His father's three marriages gave birth to 24 children.

Act

He became canon in Mainz , Trier and Meißen , in 1515 papal notary and chamberlain in Rome and was sent to Saxony in 1518 as papal nuncio to negotiate a standstill agreement with Luther and to dissuade Elector Frederick the Wise from continuing to protect Luther. In January 1519 he had a meeting with Luther in Altenburg , during which he made far-reaching promises, which he u. a. redeemed lessons on several articles from February 1519 with his writing . In October of the same year Miltitz met Luther in Liebenwerda and a year later in the Antoniterkloster Lichtenberg near Prettin , but the talks were unsuccessful. On a later trip he drowned in 1529 in the Main near Groß-Steinheim.

literature

  • Heinrich Theodor Flathe :  Miltitz, Karl von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 759 f.
  • Heribert Smolinsky :  Miltitz, Karl von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 533 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Johann Karl Seidemann : Karl von Miltitz, Canon of Meissen, Trier, Mainz, papal chamberlain and Nuncius apostolicus: a chronological investigation for a better understanding of the sources. J. Naumann, Dresden 1844. (online)
  • Heinrich August Creutzberg: The youth of the papal nuncio Karl von Miltitz and his stay in Rome. Inaugural dissertation, Bonn. Freiburg im Breisgau 1907.
  • Heinrich August Creutzberg: Karl von Miltitz 1490-1529: his life and its historical significance. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1907.
  • Patricius Schlager : Karl von Miltiz. In: The Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company, New York 1911 (volume 10).
  • Miltitz. In: Dictionnaire de théologie catholique. Letouzey et Ané, Paris 1928 (fascicule LXXXVI).
  • Hans-Günter Leder: Compromise with the Pope? Luther's attitude in the negotiations with Miltitz 1520. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1969.
  • Annick Sibué: Luther et la réforme protestante. Eyrolles, Paris 2011, pp. 76-77.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich August Creutzberg: Karl von Miltitz 1490-1529: his life and its historical significance. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1907
  2. ^ Text of the Weimar edition with historical introduction and transcription
personal data
SURNAME Miltitz, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German papal nuncio and negotiated with Luther
DATE OF BIRTH around 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Rabenau or Scharfenberg
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1529
Place of death Steinheim , today in Hanau