Barthold Moller (theologian)

Barthold Moller (* around 1460 in Hamburg ; † March 12, 1530 in Rostock ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian , professor and rector of the University of Rostock .

Origin and family

Moller came from the Hamburg Hanseatic family Moller vom Baum . To distinguish it from other families of the same name, this family named itself after the pod tree in their arms of the tree .

Moller's father was the church jury to Sankt Petri Lütke Moller. The designated bishop of Lübeck Ludolf Moller († 1509), the Hamburg canon Johann Moller and the Hamburg senator and bailiff in Ritzebüttel Vincent Moller († 1554) were his brothers.

Life

Born in Hamburg, Moller studied from the winter semester 1485/86 under Albert Krantz at the University of Rostock . On the way from Hamburg to Rostock, Bertholdus Moller is said to have been provost in the Dobbertin monastery from 1480 to 1485 .

The first half of Moller's life was dominated by the university and humanistic reform. There he received his bachelor's degree in 1488 and his master's degree in 1491. et. theol. baccalarius. Before 1511 he received his doctorate in theology and later became professor of philosophy and theology .

Conflicts arose in the theological faculty when Barthold Moller was the only properly elected professor to receive twice as much from the university coffers, but only gave three lectures.

From 1502 to 1504 he represented his friend Dr. theol. Boger in the Rostock Cathedral Dean's Office. He was also friends with the Rostock city secretary and book printer Hermann Barckhusen , and his rare great Donat was printed with him in 1505. In 1506 Moller oversaw the publication of Albert Krantz Culta et succincta grammatica and the Spirantissimum opusculum in officium missae.

In 1505/06 he became rector of Rostock University for the first time. Then 1511/12, 1512/13, 1516/17, 1519, 1519/20, 1528/29 and 1529/30. Moller was vice rector in 1507 and 1512 in personal union.

In 1508 Moller was elected dean of the collegiate monastery at the St. Jakobi Church in Rostock . With that he also became pastor of the Jakobikirche, member of the Mecklenburg state parliament and council of the dukes of Mecklenburg and was one of the most important clergy in northern Germany. In 1516 he was sub-commissioner of the indulgence seller Giovanni Angelo Arcimboldi at the Rostock churches. In 1523 Moller was one of the five Mecklenburg prelates who sealed the union of the estates .

In 1525 Moller was elected Lector Primarius at the Hamburg Cathedral for the late Johann Engelin . He took up this office in 1526, but as a Catholic he quarreled with his former student Stephan Kempe in the Reformation disputes. After the disputation on April 28, 1528, many Catholic priests in Hamburg were expelled from the city. Moller was not one of them, but left the city voluntarily on May 19, 1528 and returned to Rostock. There he took up his previous position as professor of theology and was re-elected rector of the university in 1529.

Moller died as rector on March 12, 1530 in Rostock. His colleague, the Carthusian Johannes Kruse , wrote his funeral sermon and complained that a large noisy crowd flocked to the funeral, advanced to Moller's grave and mocked the corpse.

Moller was considered one of the most ardent opponents of the Reformation in Rostock and Hamburg.

Works (selection)

Familiaris Elucidatio Vtriusque editionis Donati Grãmatici Edita et exercitata Rostochii Per Magistrũ Bartoldũ Molitoris Jn Pedagogio Porte celi. Anno Salutis Millesimo Quadringentesimo Nonagesimonono Omnibus Adolescentulis studiosis nõ minus necessaria qua vtilis . Hermann Barkhusen, Rostock 1505 ( digitized on the pages of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt ).

literature

Friedrich Gottlieb Zimmermann: New Chronicle of Hamburg, from the development of the city to the year 1819 . CE Häßler, Hamburg 1820, p. 399-422 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Friedrich Georg Buek : Barthold Moller, JUL In: Genealogical and biographical notes on the mayors of Hamburg who have died since the Reformation . Johann August Meißner, Hamburg 1840, p. 86 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Otto Krabbe : The University of Rostock in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . First part. Stiller'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Rostock / Schwerin 1854, p. 176 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Otto Krabbe : The University of Rostock in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . Second part. Stiller'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Rostock / Schwerin 1854, p. 320-325 u. 388–391 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Ulrich Philipp Moller : The Moller family in Hamburg . Fabricius, Hamburg 1856, p. 7–16 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Hans Schröder : Moller (Barthold I.) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 5 , no. 2645 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1870 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library ).
Karl Ernst Hermann Krause : Moller, Bartold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 122 f.
Eduard Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer u. Oscar Louis Tesdorpf : Hamburg coats of arms and genealogies . Hamburg 1890, p. 265 ( digitized on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library).
Marko A. Pluns: The University of Rostock 1418–1563. Sources and representations of Hanseatic history, Volume LVIII, Cologne, Weimar, Berlin 2007 pp. 129, 143, 180, 302.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
^ Adolph Hofmeister : The matriculation of the University of Rostock. II. Me. 1499 - east. 1611. Rostock 1891.
^ Dietrich Schröder: Papist Mecklenburg. Tenth book of the Mecklenburg Church History. Wismar 1741 p. 2310.
^ Hofmeister: The register of the University of Rostock I. pp. 244, 250, 255.
^ Adolph Hofmeister: The register of the University of Rostock II. 1891 p. 50.
↑ Rostock University Library, MK - 11568.2
^ Karl Ernst Hermann Krause: Dr. theol. Hinrich Boger or Hinricus Flexor, Erich's companion to Italy. In: Mecklenburgisches Jahrbuch (MJB) Volume. 47 (1882) p. 125.
^ Friedrich Lisch : printer of the Rostock city secretary Hermann Barckhusen. In: MJB 4 (1839) p. 78.
^ Sabine Pettke: Barthold Moller, dean at the St. Jacobi Collegiate Foundation. In: Supplements to the history of the Reformation . Rostock 2010 pp. 41–48.
↑ LHAS 1.6-1 No. 00, 243.

personal data
SURNAME	Moller, Barthold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Moller vom Baum, Barthold; Moller, Bartold; Moller, Bertoldus; Molitoris, Bartoldus; Molitor, Bartold; Molre, Bartold; Möller, Barthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Roman Catholic theologian, professor and rector of the University of Rostock
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1460
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	March 12, 1530
Place of death	Rostock

[1] Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal

[2] Adolph Hofmeister : The matriculation of the University of Rostock. II. Me. 1499 - east. 1611. Rostock 1891.

[3] Dietrich Schröder: Papist Mecklenburg. Tenth book of the Mecklenburg Church History. Wismar 1741 p. 2310.

[4] Hofmeister: The register of the University of Rostock I. pp. 244, 250, 255.

[5] Adolph Hofmeister: The register of the University of Rostock II. 1891 p. 50.

[6] Rostock University Library, MK - 11568.2

[7] Karl Ernst Hermann Krause: Dr. theol. Hinrich Boger or Hinricus Flexor, Erich's companion to Italy. In: Mecklenburgisches Jahrbuch (MJB) Volume. 47 (1882) p. 125.

[8] Friedrich Lisch : printer of the Rostock city secretary Hermann Barckhusen. In: MJB 4 (1839) p. 78.

[9] Sabine Pettke: Barthold Moller, dean at the St. Jacobi Collegiate Foundation. In: Supplements to the history of the Reformation . Rostock 2010 pp. 41–48.

[10] LHAS 1.6-1 No. 00, 243.