Georg Helt
Georg Helt , also Georgius Heltus (* around 1485 in Forchheim near Bamberg ; † March 6, 1545 in Dessau ) was a German humanist , classical philologist and universal scholar. He was initially a Roman Catholic theologian and later a Lutheran theologian .
Life
Helt first studied ancient languages with Jakob Micyllus at Johannes Murmellius' Ludgerischule in Münster . In 1501 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig , where he obtained the academic degree of a baccalaureate in 1502 and that of a master's degree in the fine arts in 1505 . After giving lectures, he turned to theology and acquired the Sententiarius theologiae in 1515. Among his students were Joachim Camerarius , Sebastian Fröschel and Caspar Cruciger . Helt was regarded as a strict teacher who taught his grammar based on the Tübingen Magister Jakob Henrichmann ; his pupils had to memorize a letter from Cicero every day .
He moved from Leipzig to Anhalt and was initially the teacher of Joachim von Anhalt and the then still Catholic clergyman and later reformer Georg III. from Anhalt ; In 1518 he became Georg's mentor. Helt received the lower consecration together with Georg in Dessau and remained his adviser and fatherly friend until his death.
Georg Helt was an eyewitness to the Leipzig disputation between Martin Luther and the Catholic theologian Johannes Eck in 1519 . A short time later, Helt confessed to the Protestant faith. He was matriculated for Protestant theology in Wittenberg in 1532 and stayed repeatedly in Wittenberg . Georg Helt was most recently rector of Dessau in Anhalt . He was also Georg von Anhalt's court bookbinder from 1537 .
In 1537, Helt was one of 43 signatories of Philipp Melanchthon's Tractatus de potestate papae ( treatise on the violence and primacy of the Pope ) and Luther's Schmalkaldic articles as a representative of the clergy of Anhalt-Dessau .
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz: Helt, Georg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 707.
- Jakob Franck : Helt, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 713.
- Heinz Scheible : Melanchthon's correspondence. People 12 . Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2005, ISBN 3-7728-2258-4 .
- Hans Volz : Helt, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 507 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Helt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Frank Hieronymus: "Greek spirit from Basel presses"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Hieronymus: Greek spirit from Basler Pressen ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Irene Roch-Lemmer: New research on the Dessau image of the Last Supper by Lucas Cranach the Elder. J. (1565) , archive link ( memento of the original dated October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Johannes Pauli 1542: "Schimpff und Ernst, durch alle ..." ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Helt, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German humanist, universal scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1485 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Forchheim near Bamberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1545 |
| Place of death | Dessau |