Georg Elner

Georg Elner (also: Georgius Elner Staffelstein ; * around 1473 in Staffelstein ; † May 21, 1543 in Wittenberg ) was a German logician and theologian.

Life

Elner began his studies in the summer semester of 1495 at the University of Leipzig , where he acquired the degree of Baccalaureus in the summer semester of 1498 . In the summer semester of 1504 he moved to the University of Wittenberg , where he acquired the academic degree of Magister on August 12, 1505, and was admitted to the Senate of the Faculty of Philosophy in 1509 after being an extraordinary member in 1507. In the summer semester 1511 and in the winter semester 1519 dean of the Wittenberg faculty, administered the rectorate of the Wittenberg Academy in the winter semester 1514 and in the same year took over the professorship for Thomistic little logic. In 1520 Elner was proposed for the history professorship, which he did not receive.

In 1512 he was head and senior of the Wittenberg priesthood , which suggests that he was ordained a priest at an early age and continued his theological studies in Wittenberg. In March 1512 he received his doctorate at the theological faculty for Baccalaureus sententiarius and the following October for Baccalaureus formatus . In 1515 or 1516 Elner became a canon at the Wittenberg Castle Church .

After Elner had transferred to the theological faculty in 1522, he stood alongside Matthäus Beskau and Johann Volmar against the reforms of Martin Luther at the Wittenberg Castle Church , until at the end of 1524 he changed his mind in favor of Protestant convictions and continued to give lectures at the Wittenberg Academy. Johannes Mathesius was accepted into his house and he kept his benefice at the Wittenberg Castle Church until the end of his life.

literature

• Nikolaus Müller: The Wittenberg Movement 1521 and 1522. The events in and around Wittenberg during Luther's stay in the Wartburg. Letters, files and similar personal details. Leipzig 2nd edition 1911.
• O. Albrecht / Paul Flemming: The so-called Maniscriptum Thomasium IV. In: Archive for Reformation History (ARG) 1916-17 .
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg , Verlag Max Niemeyer Halle (Saale) 1917.
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Gottfried Wenz: The Collegiate Foundation of All Saints in Wittenberg. In: Fritz Bünger , Gottfried Wentz: The dioceses of the church province of Magdeburg. 3rd vol. The Diocese of Brandenburg 2nd part. Walter de Gruyter & Co, Berlin 1963, (reprint from 1941) p. 134.

Web link

• Günther Dippold: Georg Elner († 1543) Professor at the University of Wittenberg (PDF file; 483 kB)