Friedrich Bernbeck

Friedrich Bernbeck ( also Arctocopus ; * 1511 in Kitzingen ; † June 20, 1570 ibid) was mayor and designer of the Reformation in Kitzingen.

Life

Growing up with Paul Eber , he attended grammar school in Nuremberg with him and then went to Wittenberg University . In Wittenberg he met Philipp Melanchthon and Joachim Camarius the Elder. He studied philosophy and law. When his parents died, he was called back to Kitzingen, where he had to inherit from his parents. Elected to the council of Kitzingen, he was primarily involved in the introduction of the Reformation in his home town.

So he worked out the statutes for the schools, hired new teachers and worked out the statutes of the hospital. These were later used in Ansbach and Würzburg as models for the shaping of the Reformation there . In 1539, 1545, 1551, 1552 and 1562 he was elected mayor of his native town and was in constant contact with Melanchthon, whose advice he often sought.

As a representative of the city he often had to do with the Würzburg bishops Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt and Friedrich von Wirsberg , with whom he represented the interests of the city of Kitzingen. He also laid the foundations of the Kitzingen wine trade and worked as a writer. In 1562 he published his "Historia populi judaici" in Wittenberg under his Greek-derived scholar name Arctocopus.

literature

• Carl Ruland:  Bernbeck, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 409 f.