Brictius thom Norde

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Brictius thom Norde, (also: Brictius von Norden, Brictius Nordanus , Brictius thon Norde ; * around 1490 in Schöppingen ; † August 4, 1557 in Lübeck ) was a Lutheran theologian and reformer.

Life

Brictius thom Norde came from Schöppingen near Horstmar. According to uncertain tradition, his father immigrated from the north (East Frisia) and lived as a captain in Dortmund . Nothing is known about his youth and education. In 1528 he helped Gerd Omeken in Büderich (Wesel) after Johann Klopreis was captured there and brought to Cologne. The church measures of Duke Johann von Kleve induced him to go to Münster .

In the spring of 1532 he worked as Bernd Rothmann's assistant , in September 1532 he became a preacher at St. Martini and married Rothmann's sister. Since then he has been involved in the turbulent events in Münster, also helped to introduce the Reformation in Ahlen and translated Martin Bucer's act with Melchior Hofman into Low German (printed in Münster in 1533). While Rothmann sympathized with the Wassenberg preachers who had moved to Münster from 1532 and consequently soon rejected infant baptism , thom Norde remained true to his Lutheran principles. At one on 7./8. August 1533 by the syndic of the city of Münster, Johann von der Wyck, scheduled disputation due to the existing tensions between Rothmann and the preachers on the one hand and the council of the city of Münster - represented at the disputation by the Lutheran-minded preachers - on the other Thom Norde was still in Rothmann's entourage, but soon isolated himself from him.

He did not take part directly in the disputation, but the confession he had previously submitted in writing was read out, in which he commented on the disputed questions about the Lord's Supper and baptism. Thom Norde also advocated child baptism: “De parvulorum Baptismo dico, quod impius non sit.” So he and the school principal Johann Glandorp opposed the Wassenbergers and their conception of the sacraments. On January 1st, 1534, shortly before the Dutch Melchiorites reached Munster, Thom Norde and Glandorp lost the preaching office. Brictius went to Soest as a preacher and became superintendent and pastor at St. Petri in autumn 1534 , succeeding Jan de Brunes .

When at the beginning of 1535 a pamphlet from France and a forged report by Philipp Melanchthon caused a stir among the city's evangelical preachers because they did not know that it was a forgery, thom Norde asked Martin in his office as superintendent of the city Luther for help, who sent him the report back with a reply.

In 1537, Superintendent Thom Norde traveled to Schmalkalden together with his two council relatives Hermann Riemenschneider and Hermann Osterkamp as a representative of the city of Soest to a meeting of the Schmalkaldic League . There he signed the Confessio Augustana , the Apology of the Confessio Augustana , the treatise De postestate et primatu papae and the Schmalkaldic Articles on behalf of the Church of Soest . Despite his signature, the city of Soest did not join the Schmalkaldic League.

When the city of Soest was obliged to recognize the Augsburg Interim in 1548, envoys from Duke Wilhelm V of Kleve demanded that the evangelical preachers be expelled from the city. Thom Norde, a staunch opponent of the Interim, then left Soest on September 4, 1548. He was accepted into Lübeck . There he spent his last years as a deacon at the Aegidienkirche .

His son Martinus Nordanus became the syndic of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

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  1. ↑ Quite a few articles, as recently falsified and viciously humiliated by the papists, address us Lutherans sampt a letter by D. Martini Luther . In: Luther's works. Weimar Edition Volume 38, pp. 386–400.
personal data
SURNAME Norde, Brictius thom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES North, Brictius of; Northern anus, Brictius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian and reformer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH Schoeppingen
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1557
Place of death Lübeck