Eberhard Weidensee

Eberhard Weidensee , also Widensee, Weydensehe or Wijdensee (* 1486 in Hildesheim , † April 13, 1547 in Goslar ) was a German Lutheran theologian and reformer of the city of Magdeburg.

Life

Eberhard Weidensee studied theology at the University of Leipzig , possibly also in Paris, and in 1520 was provost of the St. John's monastery in Halberstadt, which was connected to a school . His sermons in the Martinikirche show that he was under the influence of Luther's writings. For this reason he was summoned to Halle in 1523. Due to illness, his interrogation was delayed by a few months, and as a consequence he preferred to flee Halberstadt without his belongings. He was first accepted into the Augustinian monastery in Magdeburg , then went to Wittenberg and returned to Magdeburg, where he received a preaching position at St. Ulrich . At the end of July 1524 he became pastor at the Jakobikirche and married in autumn 1524 into a Magdeburg bourgeois family. With that he had finally broken with the Catholic Church. In Magdeburg he became an energetic fighter for the Reformation and against the Old Believers. Together with Melchior Miritz and Johannes Fritzhans , he published eighteen theses on August 9, 1524, which represent an independent commitment by the city of Magdeburg to the Reformation. They sparked an ongoing controversy with the old-believing clergy of Magdeburg Cathedral , which was reflected in numerous publications up to 1526.

In 1526 Weidensee was owned by Duke Christian, who later became King Christian III of Denmark . , called to Hadersleben , where he and Johann Wenth became the reformer of the northern part of the diocese of Schleswig . In 1533 he was appointed to succeed the deceased superintendent Paul von Rhoda in Goslar and so returned to his homeland.

literature

• Waldemar Kawerau:  Weidensee, Eberhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 448-450.

Web links

• Publications by and about Eberhard Weidensee in VD 16 .