Johannes Kruse (clergyman)

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Johannes Kruse († around 1528 ) was prior of the Appingen monastery near Greetsiel from 1500 to 1506 . From 1506 he was prior of the Atens monastery .

Kruse was appointed in 1500 to the prior of the monastery Appingen since he was a confidant I. Edzards was. 1505 he tried a convent of Carmelite establish in Atens to the sphere of the East Frisian chieftain Edzard to expand to up to the Weser. In 1513 the new monastery was accepted into the Carmelite order. With interruptions, Kruse remained the prior of the Atens monastery until 1528, his successor being Petrus de Monte . Around 1530 the monastery itself dissolved, probably due to the effects of the Reformation , because it was reported as deserted.

literature

  • Heinrich Reimers, Johannes Kruse, Prior (Monastery Appingen) , Emder Jahrbuch 23 (1932), p. 17 ff.
  • Heinrich Schmidt, The Nordenham area in the Middle Ages and the Reformation, in: Wolfgang Günther (among others), Nordenham. History of a City, Oldenburg 1993, pp. 81–160, p. 150.
  • Hugo Harms: Events and figures in the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg. 1520 - 1920 , Oldenburg 1966, p. 59 ( The Carmelite Monastery at Atens )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Reimers, Johannes Kruse, Prior (Kloster Appingen) , Emder Jahrbuch 23 (1932), p. 17 ff.
  2. ^ Heinrich Schmidt, The area of ​​Nordenham in the Middle Ages and the Reformation , in: Wolfgang Günther (among others), Nordenham. History of a City, Oldenburg 1993, pp. 81–160, p. 150.
personal data
SURNAME Kruse, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prior of the Appingen Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH around 1528