Johann Knutzen

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Johann (es) Knutzen (* 1487 or 1488 in Husum ; † June 5, 1546 in Lübeck ) was a German canon .

Life

Knutzen came from Husum. He was a son of Hans Knutzen and Geseke (Margarethe), who is said to have been an illegitimate daughter of King Friedrich I of Denmark and Norway . His brother Matthias Knutzen was possibly identical to Matthias Knutzen († February 14, 1559), who was involved in the implementation of the Reformation in Husum and later became a councilor in Kiel .

Johann Knutzen studied theology and canon law and was awarded a Dr. decr. PhD. From 1510 to 1520 he worked as a pastor in Mildstedt . Probably since 1515 to at least 1534 he was also owner of the pastor prebend of St. Mary's Church in Wismar and provost in Lueneburg . In 1520 he became canon in Schwerin , later also in Schleswig , and after several unsuccessful attempts, in 1540 he received the possession of the option of the Great Prebende at Lübeck Cathedral .

Wandered far, well-known and extremely skilled , he was already advising Duke Albrecht VII of Mecklenburg-Güstrow in 1525 and was his envoy several times, unofficially at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530 . Along with the ducal chancellor Joachim von Jeetze, he was considered the main opponent of the Reformation in Mecklenburg-Güstrow and a friend and favorite of Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggi . In 1532 he was envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg and wrote a diary-like report, which Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch edited. In 1533 he traveled on a diplomatic mission to Emperor Charles V via Trento to Alessandria and with him on to Genoa . It was about efforts by the (Catholic) Güstrower Hof to intervene in Dutch and Danish conditions.

From 1543 until the end of his life he resided in Lübeck. He was buried in Lübeck Cathedral . His grave slab is documented but not preserved.

Works

literature

  • Ernst Deecke : News on the history of the Diocese of Schwerin , in: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Vol. 21 (1856), p. 183 (digitized version)
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : The Dr. Johann Knutzen legation trip to the emperor Carl V in Italy in the year 1533. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher. (1861), pp. 48-54 full text
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : About the Dr. Johann Knutzen origin. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 39 (1874), pp. 87-89 full text
  • Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Knutzen, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 333 f.
  • Wolfgang Prange: The change in the creed in the Lübeck cathedral chapter 1530–1600. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2007 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, series B, vol. 44) p. 133, ISBN 978-3-7950-0484-2
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5163 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prange (lit.) according to the protocol book of the cathedral, deviating in ADB according to the tombstone June 3
  2. ↑ 1508 matriculated in Rostock
  3. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: Ueber des Dr. Johann Knutzen origin . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . tape 39 , 1874, p. 87 ( lbmv.de [accessed June 15, 2019]).
  4. ↑ ADB
  5. ^ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600. Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , p. 701 (LÜDO * 297)
personal data
SURNAME Knutzen, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knutzen, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Canon
DATE OF BIRTH 1487 or 1488
PLACE OF BIRTH Husum
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1546
Place of death Lübeck