Georg Melhorn

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Georg Melhorn

Georg Melhorn (* around 1513 in Altenburg ; † April 5, 1563 in Waldenburg ) was a German educator and Protestant theologian.

Life

Melhorn first matriculated in 1543 at the University of Wittenberg and in the summer semester 1544 at the University of Leipzig . In the same year he moved back to the University of Wittenberg . After a short time as rector in Großenhain in 1549, he went back to Wittenberg , where on February 11, 1550 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree. On the recommendation of Philipp Melanchthon , Melhorn briefly went to the Pforta state school as rector in 1551 . But nothing more can be determined about his work there.

In 1552 he was back in Wittenberg, and on repeated recommendation by Melanchthon, Melhorn went to Augsburg as a preacher and was ordained a preacher at the Barfüßerkirche there on February 22, 1553 . In Augsburg there was a dispute with the other preachers because Melhorn assumed Zwinglische tendencies to them, and therefore he was dismissed there in 1555. He went to Ravensburg , but also suffered adversity here because of his appearance and went to Waldenburg in Schönburg in 1559, where he found a job as a pastor and first superintendent and died in 1563.

literature

  • Register of the University of Leipzig / on behalf of the Royal Saxon State Government ed. by Georg Erler. Leipzig, 1895–1897
  • Karl Friedrich Heinrich Bittcher: Gatekeeper Album: Directory of all teachers and students of the royal family. Prussia. Pforta State School from 154; until 1843; a memorandum for the institution's third secular celebration on May 21, 1843. Leipzig, 1843, p. 543
  • Paul Flemming: Contributions to the history of chulpforta in the years 1548–1553. In: Festschrift for the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Königl. Saxon. Princely and State School Grimma, dedicated by the Königl. Pforta State School. Naumburg a. S., 1900, p. 16
  • Paul Flemming: Contributions to Melanchthon's correspondence from Jacob Monau's collection of letters in the Ste Geneviev library in Paris. In: Annual report of the royal school in Pforta. Naumburg, 1904, p. 70
  • Fritz Beyer: The Rectors of the Pforta State School. In: Die Pforte: Journal of the gatekeeper association. 19th year 1942, issue 1, pp. 13-16
  • Hans Wiedemann: Augsburger Pfarrerbuch: The Protestant clergy of the imperial city Augsburg 1524-1806. Nuremberg: self-published by the Association for Bavarian Church History, 1962, p. 29
  • Petra Dorfmüller: rectores portenses - life and works of the rectors of the Pforta state school from 1543 to 1935. Sax Verlag, Beucha 2006, ISBN 3-934544-96-7 , p. 25

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Euler (Ed.): The register of the University of Leipzig 1409–1559 . tape 3 : Register . Leipzig 1902, p. 648 .
  2. ↑ Mittheilungen of the History and Antiquity Research Society of the Osterland . tape 7 . Pierer's Hofbuchbruderei Stephan Geibel & Co., Altenburg 1874, p. 71 .
personal data
SURNAME Melhorn, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH around 1513
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1563
Place of death Waldenburg