Christoph Tiedemann (Canon)

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Portrait of Christoph Tiedemann, dated 1556, attributed to Hans Kemmer
Epitaph for the brothers Christoph (right) and Johannes Tiedemann in the ambulatory of Lübeck Cathedral

Christoph Tiedemann (* 1516 in Stadthagen ; † October 6, 1561 in Lübeck ) was a German canon .

Life

He was a son of Hans Tiedemann and his wife Geseke. She was a sister of the Lübeck council secretary and cathedral dean Johannes Rode , who was born in Stadthagen and was an opponent of the Reformation .

In 1545 Tiedemann was secretary to Archbishop of Bremen Christoph von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . 1548 he received the Great prebend of the late John Pumpel at Lübeck Cathedral , where his brother John Tiedemann in the same year Domdekan 1559 last Catholic bishop was. At the same time he was canon at the collegiate monastery in Eutin and canon at Ratzeburg Cathedral .

The two brothers Tiedemann settled before the election of John Bishop in 1559 a double epitaph of sandstone with a Latin inscription in the apse of the Lübeck Cathedral put them both in choir dress shows.

In January 2007, Sotheby’s auctioned a portrait from 1556 that Annette Kranz identified in 2011 as a portrait of Christoph Tiedemann based on her coat of arms and age and attributed it to Hans Kemmer . In contrast to the epitaph, it shows Tiedemann in secular clothing and pose.

It is on record that Tiedemann had a daughter, Margarete, with Anneke Bruneke. In his will of 1561 he thought of his housekeeper Katharina Matz and her daughter Margarete.

literature

  • Wolfgang Prange : Johannes Tiedemann the last Catholic bishop of Lübeck. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. 54: 7-41 (1974)
  • Wolfgang Prange: The change of the confession in the Lübeck cathedral chapter: 1530-1600. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2007 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck: Series B; Vol. 44) ISBN 978-3-7950-0484-2 , p. 136 f. (No. 66)
  • Annette Kranz: Epitaph and tombstones of the brothers Johannes and Christoph Tiedemann in Lübeck Cathedral and a hitherto unknown portrait of Hans Kemmer. In: Journal of Lübeck History. 92 (2011), p. 81-99

Web links

Commons : Christoph Tiedemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the inscription see Adolf Clasen : Misunderstood treasures: Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2003 (Publications on the History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck Series B Volume 37) ISBN 3-7950-0475-6 , p. 83
  2. ↑ See Kranz: Epitaph und Grabplatten (Lit.)
  3. ^ After Prange: Confession (lit.), p. 137
personal data
SURNAME Tiedemann, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Canon
DATE OF BIRTH 1516
PLACE OF BIRTH Stadthagen
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1561
Place of death Lübeck