Bartholomew Rosinus

Bartholomäus Rosinus, also Rosinius or Rosfeld (* around 1520 in Pößneck , † December 17, 1586 in Regensburg ) was a Lutheran theologian.

Life

His father Peter Rosfeld came from near Coburg and settled in Pößneck. There Rosinus attended the Latin school and studied from 1536 to the master's examination in Wittenberg . Philipp Melanchthon recommended him as a schoolmaster to Eisenach , after which he was a deacon there from autumn 1551 to summer 1559. Rosinus felt so much like a student of Martin Luther that he joined the Gnesiolutherans . In 1559 he was appointed to Weimar as superintendent .

When Duke Johann Friedrich the Middle alienated himself from the Gnesiolutherans , not without the help of his Chancellor Christian Brück , he had the Jena professor Victorin Strigel draw up the Declaratio Victorini , which all pastors were supposed to sign. Rosinus refused to sign and remained firm, even when the Duke himself tried to change his mind.

Rosinus left Weimar in 1562 and became superintendent in Waldenburg (Saxony) . After five years, the new Duke Johann Wilhelm called him back. But when he died in 1573 and Elector August took over the reign, he had to give way again. Nobody dared to take in the evicted Lutheran until he was finally appointed to Regensburg as superintendent .

He was able to work there for another 12 years. In doing so, he developed great diplomatic skills. In the theological and political debates he proved himself to be a steadfast character and a faithful theologian. With Simon Musaeus he worked at the Schönburg conference; He published three Luther sermons from Georg Rörer's estate, but above all the “question pieces” on Luther's Little Catechism, which were still in use into the 19th century. Contemporaries praised him as an excellent preacher and talented organizer.

His son Johannes Rosinus was an important theologian and antiquarian.

literature

Susanne Siebert: Rosinus, Bartholomäus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 705-706.
Rudolf Herrmann : Bartholomäus Rosinus, his clan and his time in Eisenach. In: Mitteilungen des Eisenacher Geschichtsverein 6, 1937, pp. 22–36.
Rudolf Herrmann: Bartholomäus Rosinus. In: Reinhold Jauernig (Ed.): Luther in Thuringia . Berlin 1952, pp. 212-220.

Individual evidence

↑ Rudolf Herrmann: Series Pastorum Isenacensium 1523-1563. In: "In disciplina Domini" - In the school of the Lord (= Thuringian Church Studies Vol. 1). Berlin 1963, pp. 55-76 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Rosinus, Bartholomew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rosinius, Bartholomäus; Rosfeld, Bartholomäus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1520
PLACE OF BIRTH	Poessneck
DATE OF DEATH	December 17, 1586
Place of death	regensburg

[1] Rudolf Herrmann: Series Pastorum Isenacensium 1523-1563. In: "In disciplina Domini" - In the school of the Lord (= Thuringian Church Studies Vol. 1). Berlin 1963, pp. 55-76 ( digitized version ).