Augustine van Ghetelen

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Augustinus van Ghetelen OP , Augustin von Getelen (* 1495 in Lübeck ; † August 5, 1588 ibid) was a German Dominican, Roman Catholic controversial theologian and canon .

Life

Augustinus van Ghetelen was one of the sons of the Lübeck incunabula printer Hans van Ghetelen . In contrast to his brothers Henning and Hieronymus, he did not study at the University of Rostock , but first entered the Dominican castle monastery in Lübeck, where he was ordained as a subdeacon in 1510 . The van Ghetelen family in Lübeck was shaped by the spirit of the Devotio moderna . As a monk of this monastery he was mentioned in 1519 in the Stralsund chapter of the order province of Saxonia and in the same year sent by his order to general studies at the University of Heidelberg .

He emerged as a controversial theologian and opponent of Johannes Bugenhagen during the Reformation in northern Germany, where he not only worked out of the monasteries, but especially as a priest and lecturer in Hamburg and then as a preacher at the Johanniskirche in Lüneburg until his expulsion from the city in 1530 . He accompanied the Archbishop of Bremen, Christoph von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, to the Reichstag in Augsburg in 1530 and was one of the clergymen who had to review the draft of the Protestant Confessio Augustana for him. After his return, he continued to fight against the Reformation as a representative of a modernized old faith in northern Germany. With the abolition of the Dominican monastery in Lübeck in 1531 and the expulsion of the Dominicans from the city, he retired to Riga as a canon after 1532 .

In the Baltic States he is recorded as a member of the cathedral chapters of Courland and Riga from 1541 when Otto Uexküll zu Fickel commissioned him, then Thumherr and Licentiat , to write a chronicle of Uexküll. The Uexküll von Fickel would be the first vassal dynasty of Altlivland to commission a family history. In the following years Ghetelen is named as provost of the chapter of the diocese of Ösel-Wiek and the dean of the cathedral there. In 1556 he resigned as dean of the cathedral. On June 20, 1557 he was mentioned for the last time as a witness for a notarization.

Before the Livonian War he went back to his hometown in 1557, where he became the owner of the Great Prebende at Lübeck Cathedral , which was connected to the theological lecture and immediately succeeded the dean of the cathedral and had not been occupied since 1531. The cathedral curia of the chapter theologian ( domus theologi ), which had been vacant for a long time , was prepared for him, and on August 6, 1557, the cathedral chapter welcomed him with wine. However, he died the following year, and the lecture was not reoccupied.

Significance for the history of early book printing

The hl. Birgitta . Woodcut from Sunte Birgitten Openbaringe , printed by Hans van Ghetelen in 1496; Royal Library , Copenhagen, with the van Ghetelen family coat of arms (bottom left)

Augustinus van Ghetelen, as a witness of a document from 1542 in the Baltic States, confirms the three poppy heads as the Ghetelen's family coat of arms and thus clearly proves his father Hans van Ghetelen as the owner of the Lübeck poppy head office . At the same time, however, one of his typefaces also sets a new end mark for the existence of this Lübeck printing company during the early printing era. A comparison of the types of his text Wedder erichteden seudebreff Imm namen ernn Johan Puggenhagen uthgeghaen Answer ... an derbaren rath to Hamborch , which appeared in print in 1526, proves the use of letters from the Mohnkopfoffizin, which were used in the Sunte Birgitten Openbaringe printed in 1496 , and thus proves this print as the last (for the time being) of this workshop, the end of which was previously assumed to be in 1520.

Fonts

  • Wedder erichteden seudebreff Imm name ernn Johan Puggenhagen uthgeghaen Answer ... to deu erbaren rath to Hamborch , 1526
  • Decalogus declamatus ad populum per Aug. from Gethelenn , Buxtehude 1532
  • Eyn frye dishes upp de vofftich loose article vorgegeven the guden city of luneborch uth wittenbergischer schole bellet
  • Eyn fryg courts up the target group Ur.reg. to a frunt to Hildensheim
  • Apologia Concordiae adversum Corvinos et desperatos discordiarum satores per Aug. Getellium , 1534
  • Aug. from Getelen Lubecensis Harmonia vulgaris IV Evangelistarum

literature

  • Georg Bergholz: The Rigasche Canon Augustinus von Getelen in: Mittheilungen from the area of ​​the history of Liv, Ehst and Courland , Volume 11 (1868), pp. 521-525
  • Wilhelm Sillem:  Getelen, Augustine of . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 336-339.
  • Paul-Gundolf Gierath's OP:  Getelen, Augustinus van. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 351 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ralf Kötter: Hans van Ghetelen as printer of the Mohnkopfoffizin in: ZVLGA Volume 71 (1991), p. 353-367 (p. 360 f.)
  • Ralf Kötter: Augustinus von Getelen in: Lübecker Lebenslaufen , Wachholtz, Neumünster 1993, p. 156–159 = Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck Volume 10, p. 129 ff.
  • Ralf Kötter: Johannes Bugenhagen's doctrine of justification and Roman Catholicism. Studies on the Letter to the Hamburgers (1525), Research on Church and Dogma History 59, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994
  • Hartmut Freytag: Getelen, Augustinus von . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 133-134 .
  • Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the canons. In: Ders .: Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, principality and part of the country 1160-1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 364 No. 88

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So Prange (lit.); Kötter, SHBL : not before June 20, 1557 in the Baltic States
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Ralf Kötter: Hans van Ghetelen as printer of the Mohnkopfoffizin in: ZVLGA Volume 71 (1991), p. 360 ff.
  4. ↑ According to Leonid Arbusow (historian, 1882) Ghetelen Uexküll only referred to the Livonian Chronicle of Heinrich von Latvia, which he had access to . See Marek Tamm, Linda Kaljundi, Carsten Selch Jensen: Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier: A Companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia , Ashgate Publishing, 2013, p. 370 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Prange (lit.)
  6. ↑ Ralf Kötter: Hans van Ghetelen as printer of the Mohnkopfoffizin in: ZVLGA Volume 71 (1991), p. 362
  7. ↑ Ralf Kötter: Hans van Ghetelen as printer of the Mohnkopfoffizin in: ZVLGA Volume 71 (1991), p. 363 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Ghetelen, Augustine van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Getelen, Augustin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Dominican, Roman Catholic controversial theologian and Canon
DATE OF BIRTH 1495
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1588
Place of death Lübeck