Georg Buchholzer

Georg Buchholzer based on Martin Friedrich Seidel's picture collection

Georg Buchholzer (also Buchholtzer ; * around 1503 in Dahme ; † May 31, 1566 in Berlin ) was a Lutheran theologian and reformer.

Live and act

Coat of arms of Georg Buchholzer with the year 1544, from: Constitution und Artickel des Geistlichen Consistorij zu Wittembergk , Frankfurt an der Oder 1563

Buchholzer was born the son of a councilor. He studied in Wittenberg until 1526 and wrote several sermons by Martin Luther , which were published in 1552. Then he was introduced as pastor in Buckow in 1526 and in 1527 he was appointed pastor in Schöna . After ten years of service in Schöna, he was appointed senior pastor in Arnswalde in 1538 and as provost in Berlin in 1539 .

Here he worked as an advisor to Elector Joachim II and helped him carry out the Reformation in Brandenburg . To this end, in 1540 he worked on the Brandenburg Church Ordinance and on the establishment of the Berlin Consistory , which carried out the first Brandenburg church visitation. During this time he was in constant letter contact with Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon , who advised him on critical questions.

When attempts were made to introduce the Augsburg Interim in Brandenburg in 1548, there were constant disputes with Johannes Agricola . Buchholzer represented the position of the moderate Philippists and, when the Gnesiolutherans had prevailed in Brandenburg, was deposed by Joachim II of Brandenburg because of constant theological disputes in 1565.

Works

• Directory in J. Ch. Müller - GG Küster, Altes und Neues Berlin I, 1737, page 295
• Directory with Lothar Noack - Jürgen Splett, Bio-Bibliographies: Brandenburgische Schehre der alten Zeit; Mark Brandenburg with Berlin-Cölln 1506–1640, Berlin 2009, pp. 49–54

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  BUCHHOLZER (Buchholtzer), Georg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 787.
• Iselin Gundermann: The first and second Reformation in the Mark Brandenburg . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Prignitz 2 (2002), pp. 6-19
• Adolf Laminski: Georg Buchholzer. First Protestant pastor in Buckow, Schöna and Arnswalde as well as provost to St. Nikolai in Berlin . In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History 50 (1999), pp. 62–112
• Gustav Leopold Plitt:  Buchholzer, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 482.
• Johannes Schultze:  Buchholzer, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 702 ( digitized version ).
• Heinz Scheible (ed.): Melanchthon's correspondence . Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1979–1995, vol. 11 (people)
• Robert Stupperich: Reformatorenlexikon . Max Mohn Verlag, Gütersloh 1984, ISBN 3-579-00123-X
• Max Wald: Flämingheft 13 in 3 editions
  • 1st edition: Luther's friend Georg Buchholzer; Dahme / Mark, 1928
  • 2nd edition: Luther's friend Georg Buchholzer, the first Protestant preacher in Berlin; Dahme / Mark, 1935
  • 3rd edition: Luther's friend Georg Buchholzer, the first Protestant preacher in Berlin, memorial sheet 1539–1939; Dahme / Mark, 1939