Bonifacius Erasmi de Rode

Bonifacius Erasmi de Rode (also: Bonifatius von Rhode, Roda, Bonifatius Erasmi ; * around 1480 in Zörbig ; † January 29, 1560 in Pößneck ) was a German mathematician and Protestant theologian.

Life

Rode moved to the University of Krakow in the summer semester of 1502 , where he became a Baccalaureus of the seven liberal arts on September 14, 1505 . His real name was Bonifacius von Rode, but later he was still called Bonifacius Erasmi in memory of Cracow. In the winter semester of 1505 he moved to the University of Wittenberg , where he became a Master of Artes liberalis in 1509 .

After Christoph Scheurl had written the new statutes of the Wittenberg University in 1509, attempts were made to win Bartholomäus Stein for the professorship of mathematics. However, since the latter refused, Rode, who was also called Magister Zörbig at the time, enjoyed the first mathematics professorship at the Wittenberg University. After he was accepted into the Senate of the Philosophical Faculty in 1513, he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty in 1515 .

In Wittenberg he had seen the beginning of the spiritual movement around Martin Luther , whereby he had acquired the theological tools to go to Heilingen as a pleban in 1518 . There he was often in contact with Andreas Bodenstein , who valued his advice. In the autumn of 1524 he was transferred to Pößneck as a deacon , where he died on the Monday after Pauli's conversion in 1560. An epitaph was erected for him there , which identified him as a dutiful clergyman.

literature

• Volkmar Jöstel: Magister Bonifatius von Roda - A Wittenberg mathematician and Karlstadt's acquaintance. In: Erich Donnert, Günter Mühlpfordt: Europe in the early modern times. Böhlau, 1997, Volume 2, p. 200, ISBN 3412004979
• Gustav Bauch: German Scholars in Cracow in the Renaissance Period 1460 to 1520. Seventy-eighth annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture. GP Anderholzbuchhandlung, Breslau 1901, III. Historical Section Department; also as a special edition Commissions-Verlag by M. & H. Marcus, Breslau, 1901