Bartholomaeus Suawe

Bartholomaeus Suawe , also Swawe (* August 1494 in Stolp , † 1566 in Bütow ) was a German Protestant theologian , bishop and reformer .

Life

Suawe came from the wealthy Schwawe family and therefore received a good and comprehensive education. After attending school in Stolp, where his father was mayor, and the Jageteufel colleges in Stettin , he is said to have continued to attend schools in Leuven and Münster . In 1509 he was enrolled in Leipzig . When he received a vicarie in Stolp from Bishop Martin von Cammin , he got the means to go to Italy . He is said to have spent seven years there. After his return he became canon of St. Otten in Stettin, but entered the service of Dukes George I and Barnim IX in 1529 . (XI.) .

In 1534 he married Gertrud von Zitzewitz . When the Reformation was introduced , he was Chancellor of Duke Barnim IX. (XI.). Together with the Chancellor of Pommern-Wolgast, Jobst von Dewitz , he initiated the Treptower Landtag in 1534 at which the implementation of the Reformation in Pomerania was decided. When the Pomeranian reformer Johannes Bugenhagen carried out the subsequent visitations of the individual churches in the country in 1535, he was one of his companions. After the Imperial Court of Justice on behalf of Emperor Charles V had demanded the repeal of the Reformation in Pomerania and Pomerania had to reckon with punitive measures from imperial power, he and Dewitz negotiated in the Electorate of Saxony in order to admit Pomerania to the Schmalkaldic League . Here he later had the task of representing Pomerania at the Bundestag and had to defend the Pomeranian dukes who had placed themselves under the protection of the federal government, but made only insignificant contributions themselves.

He also negotiated with the bishop of Cammin, Erasmus von Manteuffel , who opposed the Reformation with reference to the imperial immediacy of the diocese of Cammin. After Manteuffel's death, the cathedral chapter elected him bishop on April 12, 1545. As such he was very accommodating to the dukes, renounced the imperial immediacy of his diocese on October 12, 1545 in the Treaty of Köslin and accepted the Treptow order. The Augsburg Interim imposed on the country by the emperor ruined his work. On August 1, 1549, he resigned from office to clear the way for a successor elected by the emperors and dukes, but remained on the duke's council as an "old bishop". He managed the Bütow office until 1560 , when illnesses forced him to withdraw from the business.

literature

• Hermann Waterstraat: The Caminer diocese dispute in the age of the Reformation. In: Journal of Church History. Vol. 22 (1901), p. 599, and Vol. 23 (1902), pp. 224-235.
• Martin Wehrmann : The establishment of the Protestant school system in Pomerania until 1563. A. Hofmann, Berlin 1905.
• Martin Wehrmann:  Swawe, Bartholomäus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 641-643.
• Hellmuth Heyden : Church history of Pomerania. 2nd Edition. Volume 2. R. Müller, Cologne 1957.
• Hans Branig : History of Pomerania. Part 1: From becoming the modern state to the loss of state independence 1300–1648. Böhlau , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-412-07189-7 .

See also

• List of superintendents general and bishops of Pomerania
• Pomeranian Evangelical Church

predecessor	Office	successor
Erasmus von Manteuffel-Arnhausen	Bishop of Cammin 1545–1549	Martin Weiher from Leba