Andreas Stoss

Andreas Stoss (also Stoss ; * around 1480 in Krakow ; † September 20, 1540 in Bamberg ) was a Carmelite .

Life

Stoss was the son of the carver Veit Stoss . In 1496, when he was 16 years old, Stoss joined the Carmelites in Nuremberg as a novice . He then studied theology and canon law at the University of Krakow , later he moved to the University of Vienna and successfully completed these studies in 1517 with a dissertation on canon law . In the same year, Stoss was called to Budapest as prior . In 1520 he became the prior of the one in the same function at the Carmelite monastery in Nuremberg.

When the Reformation was introduced in the city in 1525 , the monastery was closed and stoss and many of his confreres were expelled from the city. Shock initially lived in the convent of the Carmelites of Straubing and later went to Voitsberg in Styria . In the summer of 1528 became the shock prior of the convent of Bamberg selected. In 1529 he was appointed Provincial of the Upper German Order Province, where he was instrumental in maintaining it.

literature

• Gottfried Sello: Veit Stoss . Hirmer, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7774-4390-5 .