Franciscus Lubecus
Franciscus Lubecus (born October 31, 1533 in Göttingen ; † 1595 there ; actually Franz Lübeck ) was a chronicler of the city of Göttingen.
In 1553, the twenty-year-old Lubecus enrolled at the University of Wittenberg . At that time the famous humanist and reformer Philipp Melanchthon taught there . He then worked briefly as a teacher in Hannoversch Münden . Soon after, however, he switched to a spiritual career and was a pastor in Uslar from 1558 to 1565 . He later became the second pastor at the Johanniskirche in Göttingen. He worked there for ten years and then went to Northeim for eight years . Then he returned to Göttingen. However, shortly afterwards, in 1587, he took up a pastor's position in Höckelheim, which was then in Hesse .
Lubecus wrote two major historical works, the Braunschweig-Lüneburg Chronicle and the Göttingen "Annals". As the author of the annals, he became the first Göttingen city historian. He drew his information for the representation of earlier times from contemporary chronicles of other cities and from more common medieval works. He also used the records of the Göttingen citizen Johannes Rivesolt from the years 1444 to 1504.
Lubecus' portrayal is not always reliable, but his works are now considered an invaluable source for research on the history of Göttingen.
literature
- Franciscus Lubecus: Göttinger Annalen : from the beginnings to the year 1588 / edited by Reinhard Vogelsang, Göttingen, Wallstein, 1994, ISBN 3-89244-088-3
- Dietrich Denecke and Helga-Maria Kühn (eds.), Göttingen, history of a university town. Volume 1, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-525-36196-3 .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lubecus, Franciscus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lübeck, Franz (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chronicler of the city of Göttingen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1533 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1595 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |