Ambrosius Berndt

Ambrosius Berndt (* around 1500 in Jüterbog ; † January 12, 1542 in Wittenberg ) was a German philologist and Protestant theologian.

Life

Berndt enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on May 3, 1520, and completed basic training here, which he completed with the degree of Baccalaureus in 1521. He went to Breslau as a teacher at the St. Elisabeth Gymnasium, where he made his first practical experience under the director Andreas Winckler. On September 22, 1526 he received a grant from the Breslau Council to continue his studies. With a letter of recommendation from Johannes Metzler , he made his way back to Wittenberg at the end of 1526.

Supported mainly by Philipp Melanchthon , he completed the degree of master's degree in philosophy on April 30, 1528 and was admitted to the philosophy faculty on October 18 of the same year. In the summer semester of 1530 he held the dean's office in the philosophical faculty of the Wittenberg University , was appointed pastor to Schweidnitz at the end of the year and took up this position on June 12th. He failed because of the denominational resistance of the local altarists and withdrew to Wittenberg without having achieved anything.

After having been the principal of the school in Görlitz for a short time , he returned to Wittenberg. In 1535 he received the second professorship of the Latin language in Wittenberg , where he dealt with the grammar according to Terence, was again dean of the philosophical faculty in the summer semester of 1537 and was accepted into the Wittenberg consistory in February 1541 .

Berndt was married to Barbara von Bora († 1532) for the first time. The second marriage he concluded with a woman of unknown name († November 1537) and in the third marriage he became engaged on November 10, 1538 to Lene Kaufmann, Martin Luther's niece , whom he married on November 27, 1538. His widow married the physician Ernst Reuchlin against Luther's will after his death.

Selection of works

• Disp. De Absolutione, Wittenberg 1537
• Disp. De philosophia et sectis, Wittenberg 1539

literature

• Ralf Frassek : Marriage law and jurisdiction during the Reformation . Mohr Siebeck, 2005, pp. 107-108, ISBN 3161486854
• Heinz Scheible and Corinna Schneider: Melanchthon's correspondence (MBW). Volume 11: People A – E. Frommann-Holzboog, 2003, p. 143, ISBN 3772822576
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg . Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• Helmar Junghans: Directory of the rectors, vice-rectors, deans, professors and castle church preachers of Leucorea from the summer semester 1536 to the winter semester 1574/75. In: Irene Dingel and Günther Wartenberg : Georg Major (1502–1574). A theologian of the Wittenberg Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3374023320

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See discussion