Cyriacus Lindemann

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Cyriacus Lindemann

Cyriacus Lindemann (* around 1516 in Gotha ; † March 12, 1568 there ) was a German educator.

Life

Born as the son of the tailor Hans Lindemann, who was a cousin of Martin Luther on his mother's side, and his wife Dorothea, he experienced his father's death at the age of four. His mother then married the Gotha mayor Melchior Keuthe, who took good care of his stepchildren. Lindemann attended the Gotha Latin School, which had been opened by Friedrich Myconius in 1524 and where he enjoyed a humanistic education.

At the usual age of 17 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on June 14, 1533 and, on the recommendation of Philipp Melanchthon, returned to Gotha as a teacher at Easter 1535. In the autumn of 1536 he returned to Wittenberg to continue his studies, and in 1539 was sent to the school in Freiberg , of which he was a member until 1543. After he had obtained the academic degree of a Magister on September 11, 1543, Lindemann was sent to the newly founded electoral state school Pforta . Here he initially took over the provisional management of the institution until Johannes Gigas took up his official duties as the institution's first rector in the spring of May / early June .

After Gigas said goodbye to Schulpforta on Michaelis in 1545, the University of Leipzig appointed him , mainly at the instigation of Joachim Camerarius the Elder. Ä. , to the rector of the institution. During his tenure, the two state schools in Meißen and Pforte were subject to the visitation law of the University of Leipzig. School regulations, the "Forma disciplinae", were introduced, which remained in force for years and which should form the basis for the following school regulations.

During his service there were problems, especially with the Catholic administrator of the state school, Michael Lemmermann, who had already worried his predecessor. Since it was no longer possible to think of a sensible cooperation, Lindemann submitted his resignation, which was not confirmed from Dresden. As a result, the manager did not pay him the salary he was entitled to and Lindemann left the school indignantly. Via Naumburg, Jena, and Remda, he then returned to Gotha, where in 1548 he married the daughter of Friedrich Myconius, who had meanwhile become superintendent. After a year without an official position, in 1549 he got a position as vice-principal at Gothaer Gymnasium . He turned down offers from Hamburg and Erfurt and was rector of the grammar school in 1562, which he helped to gain a great reputation.

He himself led a quiet, withdrawn life, but his extensive correspondence with numerous scholars of his time testifies to both his lively scientific activity and the respect and friendship he enjoyed. His only son Johannes died of the plague in 1567 at the age of only ten. In addition , the siege and destruction of his hometown associated with the Grumbach trade darkened Lindemann's last years. A creeping illness that had been draining his strength for a long time came to an outbreak more quickly under these conditions. Cyriacus Lindemann died in Gotha at the age of 51. The husband of his daughter Dorothea, Cyriacus Schneegass , published a speech in 1593 that a former pupil of Lindemann, Johannes Dinckel , had given in 1592 about his former teacher. His judgment on Lindemann as a teacher culminated in the words: "As many students he had, so many sons he brought up".

Works

  • Leges scholasticae. In: Martin Luther: Parvus catechismus doctoris Martini Luther latino-germanicus, cum quaestionibus de coena Domini, symbolo Athanasii ... Erphordiae 1593.
  • Periochae sive explicationes summariae et perspicuae tam Epistolarum quam Evangeliorum, quae diebus Dominicis et festis sollemnibus in Ecclesia proponi solent: Stylo facili et eleganti scriptae et traditae olim in schola Gothana a M. Cyriaco Lindemanno, Rectore. Nunc vero in usum iuniorum et aliorum piorum editae . Erphordiae 1589.
  • Epistolae quaedam paraeneticae, in quibus etiam instituendorum studiorum aliqua ratio monstratur. Ed. Snow alley. Erfurt 1593.
  • Hymn: O Deus magni fabricator orbis. In: Tenzel: Historiae Gothanae . Jena 1716.
  • a Latin translation of Theognis mentions Camerarius Epist. Famil. VI, 188; 192.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Lindemann, Cyriacus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH around 1516
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1568
Place of death Gotha