Bernhard Mensing

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Bernhard Mensing , also: Bernhard Mensinck , Bernhard Mensingus (* around 1520 in Lübeck ; † March 14, 1567 in Rostock ) was a German rhetorician and logician.

Life

Bernhard Mensing came to the University of Rostock in 1539 and seems to have acquired the Baccalaureat there. In May 1542 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg . There Philipp Melanchthon was his teacher in logic, who should have given him the necessary tools so that on February 3, 1545 he was able to acquire the academic degree of a master's degree in the seven liberal arts . The events of the Schmalkaldic War probably prompted him to return to Rostock.

There he was admitted to the Senate Philosophy Faculty in the winter semester of 1547/48, read about rhetoric and dialectics and, after the death of Andreas Eggerdes on October 3, 1550, became professor of logic. Mensing was, along with Konrad Ebene, a pillar of the university, which was recovering from deep decline. For a time he was rector of the Regentie zum Einhorn , several times dean of the Rostock Faculty of Philosophy and in 1555, 1558, and in the winter semester 1559/60 rector of the Rostock Academy. During his rectorate he was drawn into the dispute over Johann Draconites , in which he tried in vain to mediate. In addition to level, since 1550, when he took over his professorship, he was the only Lutheran canon at the Catholic canon monastery in Rostock, which he himself administered for several years on behalf of the elector.

Mensing was married twice. His first marriage was with the daughter of Mayor Hinrich Waren and his wife Anna (née Eggerdes). His second marriage was with Anna NN. a.

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  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Karl Eduard Förstemann: Album Academiae Vitebergensis. Leipzig 1841
  3. ^ Julius Köstlin : The Baccalaurei and Magistri of the Wittenberg philosophical faculty 1503-1560. Max Niemeyer, Halle 1887–1891
  4. ↑ Otto Krabbe: The University of Rostock in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Verlag Adler's Erben, Rostock 1854, p. 541
  5. ^ GC Friedrich Lisch: The cathedral chapter to Rostock after the Reformation. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Schwerin, 1851, 16th year, p. 24
  6. ↑ Gerd Möhlmann: Generals of the Hanseatic City of Rostock in the 13th – 18th centuries Century. Degener publishing house, 1975
personal data
SURNAME Mensing, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mensinck, Bernhard; Mensingus, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rhetorician and logician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1520
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1567
Place of death Rostock