Dietrich Sartorius

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Dietrich Sartorius , also Theodorich von Nassau , († after 1543 in Oberursel ) was a Protestant preacher during the Reformation .

life and work

Sartorius had been the parish administrator of St. Ignaz in Mainz since 1521 . In 1523 he came to Frankfurt am Main at the invitation of the patrician Hamman von Holzhausen , where he became vicar to St. Bartholomew and preacher to St. Katharinen . There he preached, as the old believing dean of the Liebfrauenstift Johannes Cochlaeus noted, against the doctrine of the sacrifice of the Mass and purgatory , against the veneration of saints and for the right to free election of pastors by the community. With his sermons in the spirit of the Reformation, he met with a great deal of approval among the Frankfurt population, but was hostile to the clergy and parts of the city authorities. In June 1524 the Archbishop of Mainz, Albrecht von Brandenburg , reprimanded the city ​​council because of the Lutheran preacher at the Katharinenkirche; this could be held against the council as a violation of the Edict of Worms and thus as a rebellion against the emperor. Although the residents of Sachsenhausen demanded their right to free election of pastors in July 1524 and wanted Sartorius as pastor, the council gave in to pressure from the archbishop. From November 1524, Sartorius was no longer allowed to preach in Frankfurt. The Reformation popular movement had become so strong that the people expelled the Catholic pastor Peter Meyer in the Frankfurt guild uprising at the beginning of 1525 and forced the appointment of the Reformation preachers Johann Bernhard and Dionysius Melander through the council.

Sartorius became a preacher in Oberursel in 1525.

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personal data
SURNAME Sartorius, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theodoric of Nassau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant preacher of the Reformation period
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1543
Place of death Oberursel