Georg Flach

Georg Flach OSB (born March 6, 1505 in Großheppach ; † December 15, 1564 ) was a Roman Catholic theologian, auxiliary bishop of Würzburg and titular bishop of Salona .

Georg Flach was born in 1506 in Großheppach in what was then the Duchy of Württemberg. When he entered the Lorch Monastery , he joined the Benedictine Order . On January 27, 1536 he was enrolled at the University of Ingolstadt . He served Johannes Eck as chaplain and employee for seven years . He lived in his house and gave one of the funeral speeches on Eck in 1543.

When he became Dr. theol. received his doctorate, he was prior in the Benedictine monastery Plankstetten . In 1543 he became auxiliary bishop of Würzburg and in 1544 titular bishop of Salona. On December 6, 1547 he was appointed administrator of the Schottenkloster St. Jakob in Würzburg , where he was buried. In 1551/52 he took part in the Council of Trent . From the detailed reproduction of his statements in the files, one could infer that he was considered a theologian, said Hubert Jedin .

literature

• Nikolaus Reininger: The auxiliary bishops of Würzburg. Aschaffenburg 1865, pp. 159-170 ( online ).
• The Würzburg ordination registers from 1520 to 1552 . Edited by Theobald Freudenberger. Würzburg 1990, pp. 35-40
• Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448 to 1648. Berlin 1996, p. 185. (Egon Johannes Greipl)
• Biographical lexicon of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Vol. 1. Berlin 1998, pp. 123f. (Engelbert M. Buxbaum; without Freudenberger 1990)

Web links

• Latin poem flax
• Klaus Graf : Conventuals of the Lorch Monastery in the 16th century . In: Archivalia of January 4, 2014
• Article by Gerd Hit 2014 , part 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Ellenbog's letter to Eck: http://ivv7srv15.uni-muenster.de/mnkg/pfnuer/Eckbriefe/N403.html .
2. ↑ Digital copy : https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/resolve/display/bsb10186307.html .
3. ↑ The Latin entries about him in the dean's book of theologians are accessible online (Bl. 81v-82v, Scans 159-161 in PDF).
4. ↑ The male and female monasteries of the Benedictines in Bavaria . Vol. 3, St. Ottilien 2014, pp. 2643, 2650.
5. ^ Hubert Jedin: History of the Council of Trent . Vol. 3. Freiburg i. Br. U. a. 1970, p. 495 ( Google Books ).
6. ↑ http://idb.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/opendigi/thq_1941#tab=ocr&p=258 .