Johann Lüdecke

Portrait of Johann Lüdecke after Seidel

Johann Lüdecke , also Johann Ludecus (* around 1510 in Stettin , † August 11, 1559 in Stendal ) was a Protestant theologian of the Reformation period .

Life

Lüdecke, son of a Rademacher, became pastor at the Marienkirche in Frankfurt (Oder) , where he gave the first Protestant sermon after the introduction of the Reformation in the Mark Brandenburg in 1539. He was also used to lectures at the university and in 1546 earned the degree of Dr. theol.

In 1547 Lüdecke was appointed to the post of cathedral preacher and superintendent at the Stendal Cathedral as the successor to the late Konrad Cordatus . Andreas Musculus took over his previous position at the Upper Church in Frankfurt . In Stendal Lüdecke developed a great Reformation activity that went far beyond the city. He was then appointed general superintendent for the Prignitz and Altmark in 1551 .

The historian Otto Clemen suspects that Johann Lüdecke can be identical with Johannes Bugenhagen's nephew Johann Lübbecke from Greifenberg (Pomerania). He studied in Greifswald (1516–1521). There is evidence that he was in Cottbus in 1535. Martin Luther wrote to him about the right to resist.

literature

• George Gottfried Küster (Ed.): Martin Friedrich Seidels picture collection . Berlin 1751, pp. 122–126 digitized .
• Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church , Volume 13, page 578.
• Rudolf Lehmann : Pictures from the Reformation history of the Mark Brandenburg . Berlin 1921.
• R. Lehmann: The Reformation in Niederlausitz . In: Yearbook for Brandenburg Church History . Volume 25, 1930, page 97.
• Otto Fischer: The pastors of the Mark Brandenburg . Berlin 1940.
• Uwe Czubatynski: Evangelical pastor book for the Altmark. Rühstädt 2006, p. 173 ( PDF file ).