Johannes Fleck

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Johann (es) Fleck (Latinized: Flaccus , * 1559 in Zwickau ; † July 30, 1628 in Küstrin ) was a German Lutheran pastor , superintendent and court and cathedral preacher .

biography

The son of the physician Matthäus Fleck , the first city ​​physicist of Berlin and his wife Regina Schirmer, studied at the University of Leipzig , where he obtained the academic degree of a master’s degree. In 1586 he was called to St. Nicolai (Zeitz) as a deacon . Here he married the widow Susanna Weinhorst on February 27, 1587. In 1589 he became pastor in Ramsdorf and in 1592 superintendent in Colditz .

On April 5, 1596 he was appointed inspector (superintendent) at the Marienkirche in Prenzlau . The Uckermark capital offered the staunch Lutheran an ideal field of activity. "In 1597, Superintendent Johannes Fleck railed from the pulpit that the church should be closed in future because adulterers young and old held their secret conversations in it and used it to cleanse themselves." When the resolution of the electoral captain Bernd von Arnim, which was passed in 1597, was inaugurated on February 24, 1598, when the Franciscan Church was inaugurated for the Protestant church in Prenzlau , Johannes Fleck gave the first Lutheran sermon. "He gave the house of God the new name of the churches of the Holy Trinity, since it has now been taken from the (papal) Antichrist and given to God the Lord".

In 1601 the Brandenburg Elector Joachim Friedrich appointed him as court and cathedral preacher in Berlin . In this capacity he gave the inauguration sermon (which has been handed down in printed form) in 1607 in the newly founded Joachimsthal Gymnasium . Under Elector Johann Sigismund , Fleck was transferred to Küstrin in 1611 as an inspector (superintendent) . When this elector converted to the Reformed faith in 1613 , Johannes Fleck violently polemicized against it and prophesied the downfall of his sovereign and his chancellor Friedrich Pruckmann , "as soon as he was granted to the then Saxon elector and his chancellor because of their Calvinism around 1590 ".

In his second marriage, Johannes Fleck was married to Ursula Heerwig. He died on July 30, 1628 in Küstrin.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ also Kolditz near Meissen is called: Günter Meyer, collection of materials for Uckermark bibliography, manuscript, page 38
  2. ↑ Christoph Süring, Chronicle of the Uckermärkische capital Prenzlau from 1585–1654, Prenzlau 1911, p. 15, quoted from Klaus Neitmann , Prenzlau in the age of the Reformation and the denominational struggles (1500 to 1648) in: Geschichte der Stadt Prenzlau 2009, p. 112 .
  3. ↑ ibid. P. 114.
  4. ↑ ibid. P. 114.
  5. ↑ according to another tradition as early as June 26, 1628: Otto Fischer, Evangelical Pastor Book of the Mark Brandenburg since the Reformation, 1941 on Fleck, Johannes

literature

  • Reinhold Grünberg, Sächsisches Pfarrerbuch, Freiberg 1940
  • Otto Fischer, Evangelical Pastors' Book of the Mark Brandenburg since the Reformation, 1941
  • Paul Schwartz, Contributions to the Church History of Brandenburg Cities, in: Yearbook for Brandenburg Church History 7/8 (1911), pp. 13–76
  • The evangelical pastors of the Uckermark, edited by Herbert Lüpertz, further edited by Walter Arndt, AMF series No. 130
personal data
SURNAME Fleck, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleck, Johann; Flaccus, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran pastor, superintendent, court and cathedral preacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1559
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1628
Place of death Küstrin