Georg von Blumenthal

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Georg von Blumenthal, contemporary illustration

Georg von Blumenthal (* 1490 in Horst , today part of Heiligengrabe ; † September 25, 1550 in Lebus ) was a German Roman Catholic bishop .

Life

Georg von Blumenthal came from the Prignitzer landed gentry and was a member of the Brandenburg noble family von Blumenthal . His father Hans von Blumenthal († 1524) owned the manor Horst and the villages Vehlow, Blumenthal, and Brüsenhagen , and a share of Rosenwinkel. As early as 1507 he was mentioned as secretary to Bishop Dietrich von Bülow . In 1513 he was also rector of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder as cathedral dean of Lebus and was later promoted to Dr. iur. utr. PhD. In 1520 he received a canon position at Ratzeburg Cathedral . In the same year he was elected Bishop of Havelberg and confirmed by the Pope, but could not accept the election because of the objection of the Elector of Brandenburg. From 1521 he was (with an interruption from 1526 to 1529) as the owner of a large prebende, also canon in Lübeck. In 1524 he became Bishop of Lebus and shortly afterwards as successor to Heinrich Bergmeier Bishop of Ratzeburg - against the bitter resistance of Duke Magnus I of Lauenburg.

He stayed mostly in the diocese of Lebus and was represented in Ratzeburg by the cathedral provost. In 1528 he was involved in a feud with aristocrats from the Brandenburg region and was barely able to escape an attack on the episcopal castle in Fürstenwalde . In 1529, however, he came to Ratzeburg and had the Reformation-minded preacher Thomas Aderpul imprisoned, which led to a feud with the nobles of the Klützer Winkel and to a lengthy Reich Chamber Court process that did not end until 1540 with a judgment in favor of the bishop.

In 1530 he accompanied Elector Joachim I to the Augsburg Reichstag . Here he obtained against Duke Magnus I. an imperial ban because of rape church property and won in 1536 and an Imperial Chamber trial against him. To finance the processes, the bishop and the Ratzeburg cathedral chapter had to sell the cathedral treasure from 1530. As a result, his sphere of activity was more and more restricted by the advance of the Reformation , which he vigorously opposed. He was buried in the Cathedral of St. Marien Fürstenwalde .

Web links

literature

  • George Gottfried Küster (Ed.): Martin Friedrich Seidels picture collection . Berlin 1751, p. 23 ff. ( Digitized in the Google book search; with résumés and portraits of the bishops of Havelberg).
  • Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch: History of the diocese of Ratzeburg. F. Aschenfeldt, Lübeck 1835, pp. 455–494 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Karl Schmaltz : Church history of Mecklenburg. Second volume: Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Friedrich Bahn, Schwerin 1936, p. 37 f.
  • Bernhard Stasiewski:  Georg von Blumenthal. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 224 ( digitized version ).
  • Reno Stutz: Ratzeburger Land. Neuer Hochschulschriften Verlag, Rostock 1996, ISBN 3-929544-37-7 , pp. 101-104.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Prange : The change in the confession in the Lübeck cathedral chapter: 1530-1600 (= publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck: Series B; Vol. 44). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2007, ISBN 978-3-7950-0484-2 , p. 122.
predecessor Office successor
Dietrich von Bülow Bishop of Lebus
1524–1550 		Johann Horneburg
Heinrich Bergmeier Bishop of Ratzeburg
1525–1550 		Christoph von der Schulenburg
personal data
SURNAME Blumenthal, Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of the dioceses of Lebus and Ratzeburg
DATE OF BIRTH 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH Horst, today part of Heiligengrabe
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1550
Place of death Lebus