Johan van Mechelen

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Johannes van Mechelen von Osbach ( Orsbeck ), Johannes van Mechelen, also Latinized as Johannem Mechliniam called de Rathem (from Ratheim ) (* before 1500 ; † in the 16th century ) was a Dutch theologian and prior in an Augustinian monastery.

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However, the sister monasteries in Haarlem , Dordrecht , Enkhuizen , Gent and Antwerp also belonged to the Saxon-Thuringian Observant Congregation of the Augustinian Order, to which the Augustinians in Erfurt and Wittenberg belonged . They too were subordinate to the Vicar General Johann von Staupitz , who, as dean, also headed the theological faculty at the newly founded University of Wittenberg .

Van Mechelen studied in Wittenberg , where he was enrolled in 1507 ( Frater Johannes mechelinie alias de Rathem, lector ordinis heremitarum prior enchusen ) and received his doctorate theologiae there in 1511 . Afterwards he was a member of the senate of the theological faculty, which was equivalent to a professorship for the commission, which he held as office holder. However, since he did not get a professorship in Wittenberg, he returned to Enkhuizen.

From there he took over the management of the Augustinian monastery in Antwerp in 1513/1514 , which earned him the title of provincial vicar of the monasteries in the Netherlands. The monastery was founded on his initiative in 1508 by him and the monastery in Enkhuizen. Together with Johannes van Esschen , also mentioned as Johannes de Essendia , and six other monks there, he had moved into a new monastery at today's Sint-Andrieskerk. The monks he sent in 1513 were welcomed by two wealthy citizens, Joost Hoens and Marcus Mussche. The two citizens made a plot of land in Ritterstrasse available to them. A chapel was built and consecrated here in honor of the Holy Trinity.

He was the first prior of the newly founded monastery until 1519.

On September 16, 1511 Staupitz had called a "synod" of brothers in Wittenberg, where it was decided to send a delegation to Rome. There is also some evidence that Luther van Mechelen's companion on the trip to Rome . The Nuremberg Augustinian ceremony Nikolaus Besler reported as a contemporary witness that on February 25, 1512 the Augustinian Johann von Mecheln, who “had just returned from a mission to Rome, was (was) sent by Staupitz from Salzburg to Cologne to attend the chapter to be held there to accelerate".

literature

  • Alberto Melloni: Martin Luther: Christ Between Reforms and Modernity (1517-2017). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11049-874-5 , p. 178
  • Hans Schneider: Martin Luther's trip to Rome - newly dated and reinterpreted. Presented by Hans Schneider at the meeting on July 17, 2009, accessed on December 30, 2018 [4] , p. 16
  • Berndt Hamm: Theology of piety at the beginning of the 16th century: Studies on Johannes von Paltz and his circle. Vol. 65 contributions to historical theology, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 978-3-1614-4520-0

Web links

  • Franz Posset: Johannes von Staupitz's Influence on Martin Luther. Oxford Research Encyclopedias. Religion. August 2016, accessed December 30, 2018 [5]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical portaal van nederland [1]
  2. ↑ Johannes Taschner, Johan Temmerman: Essays on Theology, Meaning, and Pastoral Care. Vol. 18 Analecta Bruxellensia LIT Verlag, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-64391-024-0 , p. 111 f.
  3. ^ Hans Schneider: Martin Luther's Journey to Rome - newly dated and reinterpreted. In: Werner Lehfeldt (ed.): Studies on the history of science and religion. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025175-3 , pp. 45 f., Accessed on April 10, 2018 [2]
  4. ^ Ulrich Köpf: Martin Luther. The reformer and his work. Reclam, Stuttgart 2015, p. 30.
  5. ↑ Christopher Spehr: Luther yearbook 82nd year 2015: Organ of international Luther research. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-6478-7447-0 , p. 14
  6. ^ The deputy of a provincial superior
  7. ^ Johan Leemans, Jürgen Mettepenningen: More Than a Memory: The Discourse of Martyrdom and the Construction of Christian Identity in the History of Christianity. Vol. 51, Annua nuntia Lovaniensia, Peeters Publishers, Leuven / Paris / Dudley 2005, ISBN 978-9-04291-688-3 , p. 245
  8. ↑ Hendrik Quirinus Janssen: Jacobus Praepositus , Luthers leerling en vriend . P. N. van Kampen, Amsterdam 1862, p. 12, p. 225f and ö. ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich).
  9. ↑ Otto Clemen : The Augustinian monastery in Antwerp at the beginning of the Reformation (1513-1523). In: Ludwig Keller (Ed.): Monthly Issues of the Comenius Society , Volume 10, Issues 9 and 10, November – December 1901, R. Gaertners Verlagbuchhandlung Hermann Heyfelder, Berlin, 1901, pp. 306–313, here p. 307, accessed on April 15, 2018 (pdf; 2.5 MB).
    Conference report by Christina Mayer: Martin Luther in Rome. Cosmopolitan center and its perception. International conference organized by the German Historical Institute in cooperation with the Centro Filippo Melantone. Protestant Center for Ecumenical Studies Rome. 16. – 20. February 2011, German Historical Institute in Rome, March 22, 2011, accessed on April 15, 2018 (pdf; 111 kB).
  10. ^ Prior von Enkhuizen , 1 companion of Martin Luther on his trip to Rome in 1511/12: O. Clemen: Antwerpener Augustiner-Kloster , esp.p. 306f.
  11. ↑ Hendrik Quirinus Janssen: Jacobus Praepositus , Luthers leerling en vriend . P. N. van Kampen, Amsterdam 1862, p. 12, p. 225f and ö. ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich).
  12. ^ Hans Schneider: Martin Luther's Journey to Rome - newly dated and reinterpreted. Presented by Hans Schneider at the meeting on July 17, 2009, accessed on December 30, 2018 [3] , p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Johan van Mechelen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johannem Mechliniam; Jan van Mechelen; Johan van Mecheln
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch theologian, prior, Augustinian monk
DATE OF BIRTH before 1500
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century