Gregor Brück

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Gregor Brück 1533 after a painting oil on wood 41 × 38 cm by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä. in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg
Gregor Brück 1557 after an oil painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder. J.
Epitaph by Gregor Brück in the city ​​church of St. Michael in Jena

Gregor von Brück (actually Gregorius Henisch, Heinse, Heintz, Heinis and spelled differently, Latinized: Pontanus ; *  1483 in Brück , † February 15, 1557 in Jena ) was a politician and Saxon Chancellor during the Reformation .

Life

Gregor von Brück was the son of the mayor , later to become mayor and arable citizen , Georgius Heinse († 1527) in the country town bridge at Belzig born. His mother was Ursula Hemsendorf († 1529). The Catholic theologian Simon Heins was his older brother. In the winter semester of 1502/1503 he was enrolled in the newly established university in Wittenberg as "Gregorius Henisch de Bruck", where he became a bachelor of arts on December 22, 1505 .

He then studied in Frankfurt / Oder in 1506 and returned to Wittenberg in 1508 , where he registered his baccalaureate in both rights on March 14, 1509. After passing his exams very well, he was awarded his doctorate on March 29, 1509 by Hieronymus Schurff . Gregor Brück was introduced to legal practice under the famous lawyer Henning Göde , so that he himself became a sought-after lawyer.

In 1519 he was elected to the Wittenberg council, the elector Frederick the Wise signed him to his court as councilor and in 1520 he appeared for the first time as chancellor of the co-ruling brother John the Constant and remained so until January 1529. With this he moved to the Diet of Worms , for example where he conducted various negotiations. In 1521 he received the degree of doctor of both rights in Wittenberg.

When the Augustinians sought the abolition of the mass with the beginning of the Wittenberg movement in October 1521, he negotiated with the university and the chapter of the city ​​church . So he was involved in many matters of the Reformation. He accompanied and advised his elector at the Diet of Speyer in 1526 and 1529. However, the latter no longer as Chancellor, because in January 1529 he handed over this office to his then colleague Christian Beyer .

Then we find him at the Reichstag in Augsburg on June 25, 1530, when the first official confession of the Lutheran churches, the Confessio Augustana , which has remained binding to this day , was presented to Emperor Charles V and presented. Gregor Brück also came up with the idea that the Articles of Faith should be drawn up and presented in writing. The German version of the " Augsburg Confession " presented by Christian Beyer originated from him and on the same day he finally presented the Latin copy to Emperor Charles V.

On September 22, 1530, on behalf of the Protestant estates, he responded to the reading out of the Reichstag draft on faith. He was present when the Protestant alliance of Schmalkalden was founded in 1530. Furthermore, we find him in 1531 in negotiations between Catholics and Protestants, in the spring of 1532 at the convent in Schweinfurt and Nuremberg and he contributed to the establishment of the religious peace on August 2, 1532.

When the Elector Friedrich the Wise died, he remained at court under the new rulers, Elector Johann the Steadfast, and since 1532 Elector Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous . From 1529 he was assessor at the court in Wittenberg , a post that he gave up on January 26, 1533 at his own request. Through this work he became an indispensable advisor to Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon .

After the loss of the electoral dignity for the Wittenberg line in 1547 (Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous was only Duke of the Ernestine part of the country from 1547 ), Gregor Brück no longer exercised his office as Saxon court advisor. He first went to Weimar and then turned to Jena , where, as a professor of law, he campaigned for the establishment of the grammar school, which became a university after his death on February 15, 1557 that same year .

genealogy

There are only very different information about his family relationships, which speak of 11 to 12 children. Accordingly, his first marriage from 1515 to Anna Bule († November 17, 1527), daughter of a Wittenberg councilor Kilian Bule and his wife Ursula Zülsdorf. He concluded his second marriage in early 1535 with Barbara († April 4, 1567 in Jena), daughter of the Jena official Sebastian Wöllner the Elder. Ä. and his wife Catharina (Leubel?). The children are known:

  • Johannes Brück († August 11, 1534 in Wittenberg) eldest son
  • Christian Brück , Saxon Chancellor. Married to Barbara, a daughter of Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä. , Ancestor of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
  • Gregor Brück II. († December 12/19, 1557), council member in Wittenberg. mated with Dorothea (last name unknown until January 20, 1548) and in 2nd marriage Catharina Heintz, the daughter of the Weimar citizen Hans Heintz. The descendants of this line still bear the name of Brück today .
  • Barbara Brück († February 11, 1550), married to Lucas Cranach the Elder. J.
  • Euphrosina Brück († before 1551), married in 1538 to Wolfgang Lauenstein
  • Euphrosina Brück II. Married. 1559 with Veit Winsheim the Younger
  • Gregor Brück III. († July 2, 1589 in Porstendorf)
  • Caspar († January 5, 1541)
  • Philipp († August 1616 in Obhausen )

literature

Web links

Commons : Gregor Brück  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ^ Ekkehart Fabian:  Brück, Gregor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 653 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Genealogy of the father Georgius Heinse, accessed February 11, 2018 familia.willamowski.org
  3. ↑ Genealogy of the mother, accessed February 11, 2018 familia.willamowski.org
  4. ^ Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of the sciences and arts. 1731–1754, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, online, accessed February 11, 2018 zedler-lexikon.de
  5. ↑ The son Gregor Brück IV is known from this marriage, he was married on November 23, 1573 to Ottilie (* around 1550; † August 23, 1599 in Seegrehna), the daughter of the Brandenburg court master Albrecht von Schlieben. In addition, his son Heinrich and his daughter Barbara (married on November 25, 1578 to Martin Gabler) are known.
personal data
SURNAME Brück, Gregor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brück, Gregor von; Henisch, Gregor; Heinse, Gregor; Heintz, Gregor; Heinis, Gregor; Pontanus, Gregorius (Latinized)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Politician and Saxon Chancellor during the Reformation
DATE OF BIRTH 1483
PLACE OF BIRTH Bridge near Belzig
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1557
Place of death Jena