Bernd Rothmann

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Bernd Rothmann , also Bernhard Rottmann (* 1495 in Stadtlohn near Borken / W .; † probably after 1535 ), was the main preacher of the so-called Anabaptists in Münster . As their intellectual head, he was, along with Chancellor Heinrich Krechting and cupbearer Wolter Schemering , one of the few leading figures who evidently managed to escape after the besieging Protestant Bishop Franz von Waldeck had stormed the city of Münster . In any case, Rothmann or his corpse were not found in the stormed city; Apart from unconfirmed mentions of contemporary witnesses, according to which he is said to have been seen in Oldenburg, Lübeck and Rostock afterwards, there is also no trace of Rothmann after 1535.

Life

Rothmann initially held the office of preacher at the St. Mauritz Church , then at St. Lamberti in Münster.

Merchants who sympathized with Luther, including the former mayor of Münster, Johann VII Droste zu Hülshoff (1467–1539), financed a trip to Marburg and Wittenberg , where he came into contact with Philipp Melanchthon and Johannes Bugenhagen . He tried out several Reformation directions before turning to the Anabaptism influenced by Melchior Hofmann . As a Zwinglian , he distributed the Lord's Supper in the form of mares , which earned him the nickname Stutenbernd .

In 1534 he published a book ( Bekentones des globens und Leben der common Christe zu Monster ), which was so widespread that the secretary of the Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Wichmann ( Wichmannus Bramescanus ) , who came from Pente , refuted the Münsterische newen Valentinianer and Donatists known isses led to a further strengthening of Wiedertäufertums among Christians Osnabrück inn Westphalia prevent.

Work (selection)

  • Eyn kortte confessions of the Lere, so H. Berndt Rothman van Statloen tho Sant Mauritius before the Stat Munster prediket hefft. (1532)
  • Confessionis Doctrinae Bernhardi Rothmanni Stadlonensis, Ecclesiastae Mauritani, Epitome. (1532)
  • Confessions of both Sacraments, Doepe vnde Nachtmaele , the Praedicanten tho Munster (1533)
  • Bekentones of the globe and life of the common Christ to monsters. (1534)
  • Eyne Restitution edder a Wedderstellinge right vnnde healthy Christian empty, Gelouens vnde Leuens vth Gades Genaden by de Meant Christi tho Munster on the roof (= "day") geuenn (1534)
  • Eyn gantz troestlick report van der Wrake vnde Straffe of the Babilonischen Gruwels, to all were Israelites vnd Bundtgenoten Christi, hir vnde dar vorstroyet, by the meant Christi tho Munster (1534)
  • Van erdesscher (= "earthly") and tyliker (= "temporal") violence. Report uith gotlyker (= "divine") Schryfft. (1535)
  • Van concealment || the writings of Rykes CHRJSTJ / vnde van dem || daghe of the army / by de ghe = || meynte Christi tho || Muenster. || ... (1535) (Online: ULB Münster )

expenditure

  • The writings of Bernhard Rothmann . Edited by Robert Stupperich (= The writings of the Munster Anabaptists and their opponents, Part 1. - Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia; 32.1). Münster: Aschendorff, 1970.
  • Writings from the Protestant side against the Anabaptists . Edited by Robert Stupperich (= The writings of the Munster Anabaptists and their opponents, Part 3. - Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia; 32.3). Münster: Aschendorff, 1983.

literature

Fiction

  • Adolf Stern : The Anabaptists. Historical novella. Leipzig 1866: Rothmann is one of the main characters in this historical novella.

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personal data
SURNAME Rothmann, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rothmann, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Anabaptists and their main preacher in Munster
DATE OF BIRTH 1495
PLACE OF BIRTH City wages
DATE OF DEATH after 1535