Hermann Tulichius

Hermann Tulichius , also known as Tulken , Tulike or Tulich (* around 1486 in Steinheim in the prince-bishopric of Paderborn ; † July 28, 1540 in Lüneburg ), was a Protestant theologian, educator and reformer.

Life

Tulichius attended the cathedral school in Münster and was particularly influenced by Johannes Murmellius . Meibom reports that he studied with Konrad Goclenius in Leuven , but this news is uncertain. There is evidence that he was enrolled in Wittenberg in 1508 and in Leipzig in 1512 . He earned his living as a proofreader for the book printer Melchior Lotther the Elder. J. During this time he edited Cicero's speeches.

In February 1520 he decided to go to Wittenberg, where he also had friends. On February 9, 1520 he became a master there and quickly gained a respected position. Martin Luther dedicated his De captivitate babylonica ecclesiae to him , and Philipp Melanchthon his Plutarch edition. In 1522 Tulichius got a chair in the artistic faculty, read about ancient poets, but also about Rudolf Agricola's De inventione dialectica . In the following year he was elected canon of the All Saints' Monastery, he refused to accept episcopal ordination and therefore lost this position and the benefices linked to it in 1524.

This decision caused a sensation, especially since Tulichius got into an economic emergency. He went to Eisleben as headmaster and published the first German Protestant school regulations there. In the same year, in October 1525, the University of Wittenberg called him back and in the winter semester of 1525 made him rector of the Alma Mater . But Tulichius did not step forward there. In 1532 he was elected rector of the Johanneum at the suggestion of Urbanus Rhegius in Lüneburg . His school rules, the Leges Tulichianae , made him famous. He must also have had great pedagogical skills. According to his experience, he assigned great importance to the lessons for life: “Grammatica in scholis facit miracula, catechism in ecclesia”.

literature

• L. Hoffmann: curriculum for a German school. Hamburg 1865
• Kawerau: Johann Agricola. Berlin 1880.
• F. Paulsen: History of the learned teaching. Berlin, 2 1896
• Karl Pallas: records the Saints' to Wittenberg concerning, 1522-1526, from the estate of N. Muller, I . In: ARG . Volume 12, 1915
• Fritz Bünger , Gottfried Wentz: The Collegiate Foundation of All Saints in Wittenberg. In: Germanica Sacra - Fritz Bünger / Gottfried Wentz: The dioceses of the church province of Magdeburg - III. Bd. The Diocese of Brandenburg. Part II Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co, Berlin, 1941, (reprint 1963, ISBN 978-3-11-001287-3 ) p. 139 ( online reading sample ).
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Karl Friedrich Ernst Koldewey :  Tulichius, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 777-781.
• Stephan Waldhoff:  Tulichius, Hermann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 1393-1397.
• Tulichius, Herrmann. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 45, Leipzig 1745, column 1728 f.