Heinrich Castritius Geldorp

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Heinrich Castritius Geldorp (actually Hendrik van Casteren, also known as Hendrik van Geldorp or Henricus Castritius Geldorpius, pseudonym Gratianus Verus ) (*  1522 in Geldorp ; †  1585 in West Friesland ) was an initially Roman Catholic , later Calvinist theologian and humanist .

biography

Heinrich Castritius Geldorp was born in Geldrop in North Brabant in 1522 . He studied at the University of Leuven and wrote poetry in Latin. He taught Latin and headed several schools as principal, first in Sneek in Friesland , then later in 1557/8 at the grammar school in Delft in South Holland .

Reformation movements in the Netherlands moved Geldorp to flee to Duisburg . Geldorp did not want to part with the Catholic Church , but in 1558 he was banned from church . At that time, Duisburg belonged to the Duchy of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , where the Reformation had spread since 1544. But the sovereign Duke Wilhelm remained true to a line mediating between the religious parties based on the humanism of Erasmus of Rotterdam . Since 1551 Wilhelm had been planning the establishment of a Klevian state university in Duisburg (see Old University of Duisburg ) in competition with the universities of Cologne and Leuven that had remained “old believers”, and so the city of Duisburg convinced him to establish an academic grammar school , today's Landfermann grammar school .

Geldorp became the first principal of this school in 1559; other teachers were Georg Cassander (1513–1566), Gerhard Mercator (1512–1594) and Johann Otho (around 1520–1581). Geldorp used posters to attract teachers and was able to win over Johannes Molanus , who brought his own students from Bremen. With Molanus there were more and more arguments in the following, which is why Geldorp was dismissed in 1561 after only two years of activity and Molanus was hired as his successor.

Geldorp moved from Duisburg to Homberg , which at that time belonged to the County of Moers . At the instigation of his sovereign Hermann von Neuenahr-Moers , Geldorp prepared an expert opinion from 1578, which was supposed to justify the dissolution of the Moers Carmelite monastery and the collection of the monastery property in 1573 . This should serve to set up and build a grammar school (today's Adolfinum grammar school ) in Moers.

In 1582 he was to be appointed professor at the University of Leiden , founded in 1575 , but these plans came to nothing. In 1583 he went to Ruhrort , before he died in West Friesland in 1585, according to statements by his pupil Heinrich von Hövel, a Westphalian writer .

Fonts

  • Heinrich Geldorp: Expert opinion on the establishment of a grammar school in Moers

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geldorp, Hendrik van in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Vluchtelingen uit het voormalig Vlaanderen en hun kerken ( RTF ; 444 kB) on www.theorienet.nl
  3. ↑ Report of the Superintendent on the Autumn Synod 2007  ( 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. , Page 1@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kirche-moers.de  
personal data
SURNAME Geldorp, Heinrich Castritius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casteren, Hendrik van (real name); Geldorp, Hendrik van; Geldorpius, Henricus Castritius; Verus, Gratianus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-German theologian and humanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1522
PLACE OF BIRTH Geldrop
DATE OF DEATH 1585
Place of death West Friesland