Christoph Baldauf

Christoph Baldauf (* around 1519 in Zwickau ; † beginning of May 1580 in Naumburg ) was a German educator .

Life

Nothing is known about Christoph Baldauf's origins. He attended school in his hometown and was a student of the famous Petrus Plateanus . He enrolled in the winter semester of 1536 under the rectorate of Justus Jonas the Elder at the University of Wittenberg , on September 18, 1539 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree and in 1539 became a teacher at the grammar school in Zwickau. In 1543 he went to the grammar school in Schneeberg as rector . He is said to have introduced the so-called doctorate there, which consisted in praising the students who excelled in the half-yearly public exams.

In 1554 he was appointed rector to the school gate . But Baldauf's first term in office did not last long. Because he wanted to remarry, as he had told Elector August , and because the latter was not prepared to lift the teachers' ban on marriage, he left school in the late summer of 1557. The compromise offered by the electoral councils, his family out of school Obviously Baldauf did not want to accept the offer and returned to Zwickau as rector. There he married Anna Franck on November 3rd.

After his departure, Philipp Melanchthon and Joachim Camerarius the Elder were commissioned to look for a new headmaster for the school. In a joint letter to the Elector, they advocated that no one should be denied a Christian marriage. In addition, they could not find a suitable successor for the rector's office in Pforte. Baldauf was then brought back in June 1558 and all future rectors were allowed to marry by a decree of June 5, 1558.

Christoph Baldauf then remained rector for almost 21 years. Through his long term of office he brought continuity to the school and is said to have also understood how to master all difficulties with the discipline of the students. Long after his time at school, there were anecdotes about the means by which he had tamed the students. After the students had claimed after a big fight that they represented the Battle of Sievershausen, he apparently went into it and personally beat all the participants.

In 1579 he retired and received an annual pension of 100 guilders with the approval of the elector. Probably at the beginning of May 1580 he died suddenly in Naumburg while his wife was in Jena for the baptism of their daughter's child. Despite the cheerfulness she felt that something had happened. When she got the news, she died too. On May 14, 1580, Rector Baldauf was buried with his wife in Naumburg.

literature

• Justin Bertuch: Chronicon Portense, duobus libris distinctum quorum prior continet veteris Portae fundationem, translationem, abbates, indulgentias, fraternitates, renovationem itidem & repurgationem: posterior novae Portae post repurgatam doctrinam, statum et formam cum praeceptoribus, indeceptoribus, oeconomis et discipulis juvandam emissis . Leipzig Jacob Apel, 1612, (Liber secundus De Nova Porta ...) p. 166
• Justin Bertuch: Chronicon Portense, duobus libris distinctum, quorum prior continet veteris Portae fundationem, translationem ... posterior novae Portae post repurgatam doctrinam, statum & formam cum praeceptoribus, oeconomis & dicipuli find ad Rempublicam Christianam juvandam emissis cum figuriois aeneis ... edit nora, in qua de vita autoris praefatur est ... opus recognovit Joann. Mratinvs Shamelirs . Leipzig, Johann Christian Martini, 1739, (Liber secundus De Nova Porta ...) p. 92
• Carl Friedrich Heinrich Bittcher: Gatekeeper Album: Directory of all teachers and students of the royal family. Prussia. Pforta State School from 1543 to 1843 ; a memorandum for the institution's third secular celebration on May 21, 1843. - Leipzig: Vogel, 1843, p. 543
• Ernst Emil Fabian: M. Petrus Plateanus, Rector of the Zwickau School from 1535 to 1546 . - Zwickau: Zückler, 1878
• Paul Flemming: Contributions to the history of Schulpforta in the years 1548–1553 . In: Festschrift for the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Königl. Saxon. Princely and State School Grimma, dedicated by the Königl. Pforta State School. - Naumburg a. S: Sieling, 1900, pp. 33-35
• Paul Flemming: Contributions to Melanchthon's correspondence from Jacob Monau's collection of letters in the Ste Geneviev library in Paris. In: Annual report of the royal school in Pforta. - Naumburg: Sieling, 1904, pp. 69, 72
• Fritz Heger: The Rectors of the Pforta State School . In: Die Pforte : Journal of the gatekeeper association. 19th year 1942, issue 1, pp. 13-16
• Fritz Heuer: From the history of the state school to the gate . - Darmstadt u. a: Buske, 1943, pp. 19, 40, 45
• Petra Dorfmüller: rectores portenses - life and works of the rectors of the Pforta State School from 1543 to 1935 . Sax Verlag, Beucha 2006, ISBN 3-934544-96-7 , p. 19
• Heinz Scheible (ed.): Melanchthon's correspondence . Critical and annotated complete edition. Volume 11: People . Part: A - E . Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7728-2257-6 .