Johann Riebling

Johann Riebling (* 1494 in Hamburg ; † November 25, 1554 in Parchim ) was a Protestant theologian and reformer.

Life

Origin and childhood are in the dark. He studied at the University of Wittenberg . In 1529 he emerged as a preacher at the Katharinenkirche in Braunschweig . Duke Heinrich von Mecklenburg met him there and in 1540 appointed him to Parchim as the first superintendent of his part of the country . There he drew up a church order for which he used the Low German translation of the Brandenburg-Nuremberg church order from 1533. At the same time he also published an agenda entitled "Ordeninge der Misse".

As a practical churchman, he also campaigned for the visitations of 1535 and 1540/41, during which the economic foundations of the church system were secured. There is a record of this. He also tried to make the service uniform. To this end, he held synods of preachers. Since a third of the population still adhered to the old church, the fight for the Reformation continued.

Under the new Duke Johann Albrecht , who appeared more resolutely, Riebling wrote a new church ordinance, which the Rostock professor Johannes Aurifaber (Vratislaviensis) Philipp Melanchthon presented and which he added. In the print edition it contained his “Examen ordinandorum” as the first part; the second part contained the description of the ecclesiastical offices and ordinances. According to these church regulations, Riebling visited together with the Güstrow provost Gerd Omeken and Aurifaber. It was Riebling's last work. His work was decisive for the Evangelical Church of Mecklenburg.

literature

• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 589 f .
• Karl Ernst Hermann Krause :  Riebling, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 507 f.
• K. Schmaltz: Church history of Mecklenburg. 2, Schwerin 1936, pass.
• Emil Sehling : Introduction to the church order of Mecklenburg. Volume 5, p. 128.
• A. Vorberg: Introduction of the Reformation in Rostock (= writings of the Association for Reformation History. 58). 1897.