Georg Answerer

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Georg Antworter (* around 1430; † March 17, 1499 in Würzburg ) was a Franciscan and auxiliary bishop in Würzburg .

description

On February 25, 1479, he was appointed auxiliary bishop in Würzburg by Prince-Bishop Rudolf and consecrated on April 14, 1479. In May 1479 he was appointed titular bishop of Nicopolis ( Episcopus Nicopolitanus ) by Pope Sixtus IV in Rome . On October 2nd, 1480 he consecrated the chapel of the Schönthal monastery in Mergentheim and issued letters of indulgence. In 1481 he consecrated various altars in the Bildhausen monastery . In the same year he consecrated the church in Heidingsfeld and the Kreuzkapelle near Retzstadt . In 1482 he consecrated first three altars and later the high altar of the Amorbach monastery church and on Ascension Day 1486 he blessed and baptized the four bells Ossianna, Benedicta, Maria and Magdalena in the Würzburg cathedral . In 1490 he consecrated a chapel in the church in Unterwittbach . On July 16, 1492 he laid the foundation stone for the late Gothic St. Leo Church in Bibra . On July 1, 1496, he consecrated an altar in the parish church of Hildburghausen . In 1497 Georg consecrated the pilgrimage basilica St. Georg in Walldürn . In 1498 he first consecrated the pilgrimage church in Grimmenthal and later also two altars there.

He died in 1499 and was buried in his order church, the Würzburg Franciscan Church. His epitaph is on the south wall in front of the Antonius altar. The tomb depicts a bishop in pontifical clothing and shows the following inscription:

“ Anno Domini MCCCCXCIX in the Gertrudis obiit Rudus in Christo Pater et Dominus Georgius Episcopus Nicopolitanus, sacrae Theologiae professor Minorum ordinis et herbipolensis Ecclesiae in pontificalibus Vicairus generalis, cujus anima requiescat in pace. "

Works

The instruction on conjuring spirits from 1482, which was for a long time attributed to Georg Antworter, is in letter form. It is aimed at a Junker who is said to have complained about the appearance of poltergeists, distinguishes between good and bad spirits and warns against being careless with these beings. The treatise De apparationibus animarum separatarum by Jakob von Paradies , which was written in 1454, apparently served as a template .

literature

  • Gernot Müller, 001 Georg answerer. In: Hans-Gert Roloff (Ed.), The German Literature. Biographical and Bibliographical Lexicon. The German literature between 1450 and 1620 , (authors' dictionary) Volume 3, 2001, p. 245 f.
  • H. Reininger (Domcapitular zu Würzburg): The auxiliary bishops of Würzburg. A contribution to Franconian church history, printed by Friedrich Ernst Thein, Würzburg 1865, p. 87 - p. 95 online
  • J. Werlin, Georg Answerer's instruction on conjuring spirits. In: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 66, 1965, pp. 210–216 (with text edition)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Würzburg Diocesan History Sheets 1941, p. 212
  2. ↑ Horst Brunner and Hans-Günther Schmidt, Vom Großen Löwenhof zur Universität , Reichert 2002, ISBN 978-3-89500-312-7 , p. 62
  3. ^ Gero von Wilpert : The German ghost story. Motif, form, development (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 406). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-40601-2 , p. 75.
  4. ↑ Dieter Mertens : Jakob von Paradies. In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Volume 4 (1983), Col. 478-487.
  5. ↑ (early) humanism and diocese historiography

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personal data
SURNAME Answer, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Answerer, Georgius; Answerer, Gregor; Responses; Respondentis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Auxiliary Bishop in Würzburg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1430
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1499
Place of death Wurzburg