Johannes Bremer

Johannes Bremer , also Latinized Bremensis (*?, Attested from 1420; †?) Was a late scholastic German theologian and belonged to the Franciscan order .

Live and act

Nothing is known about Johannes Bremer's family origins and youth. In 1420 he was lecturer secundarius at the Leipzig Franciscan Convent, studied theology at the University of Leipzig from 1420 and moved to the University of Erfurt in 1424 . There he received his doctorate in theology on October 23, 1429 . In 1432 he was enrolled at the University of Rostock .

Until 1444, Bremer headed the training of the offspring of the Saxon Franciscan Province in Erfurt, succeeding Matthias Döring, and was professor at the theological faculty of the University of Erfurt from 1437. Bremer also worked and preached in other cities, namely in 1425 in Breslau, 1441 in Heidelberg, 1442 in Liegnitz, 1444 as a reading master in the Franciscan study houses in Halberstadt and Goslar, and in 1455 in Braunschweig .

Bremer wrote several theological writings that are in the tradition of the Franciscan scholastics Bonaventure and Johannes Duns Scotus . Of particular note is the commentary on the four books of sentences by the scholastic Petrus Lombardus, written around 1424/25 and handed down in manuscript . Around 1455 he wrote an investigation into the blood of Christ. It is handed down in a collective manuscript from the Franciscan Monastery of Braunschweig, which is in the Braunschweig City Library . The topic was of particular importance in Braunschweig because the Aegidienkloster there kept a relic of the Blood of Christ. Other writings dealt with questions of canon law , for example the “ Holy Blood Miracle ” by Wilsnack and the question of the neutrality of the electors.

Works (selection)

• Commentary on the four books of sentences by Petrus Lombardus , c. 1424/25
• Quaestio de Ecclesia; Quaestio disputata de Ecclesiae potestate , around 1442
• Sermo de sanguine Christi , around 1443
• Quaestio magistralis de sanguine Christi , around 1455
• Informatio super officio praedicationis , without year

literature

• Reinhard Tenberg:  Johannes Bremer. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 289-290.
• Dieter Lent: Bremer, Johannes . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th centuries , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 379f.
• Kurt Ruh : Bremer, Johannes. In: Burghart Wachinger et al. (Hrsg.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, Volume 1. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978, ISBN 3-11-007264-5 , Sp. 1018-1023.
• Johannes Schlageter OFM: Franciscan Theology of the Middle Ages in Saxonia. In: Volker Honemann (Ed.): From the beginnings to the Reformation. (= History of the Saxon Franciscan Province from its founding to the beginning of the 21st century , vol. 1) Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-76989-3 , pp. 415-520, therein on Johannes Bremer p. 475-486.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Reinhard Tenberg: Reinhard Tenberg:  Johannes Bremer. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 289-290.
2. ^ Ingo Ulpts: The mendicant orders in Mecklenburg. Werl 1995, p. 181.
3. ↑ Cf. Dieter Lent: Bremer, Johannes . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th centuries , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 380