Johannes Rethius

Johannes Rethius SJ (* 1531 in Cologne ; † October 26, 1574 in Cologne) was a German theologian and member of the Jesuit order.

Johannes Rethius was the son of the mayor of Cologne, Johann von Rei (d) t. He called himself Rethius in Latin . After attending the Bursa Cucana in Cologne to prepare for university studies, he studied philosophy in Paris from 1550 to 1551. After his return to Cologne, he joined the Jesuit order founded in 1534 in 1552 and in 1553 walked to Rome in a month and a half, where he studied theology. In 1556 he was ordained a priest there and returned to Cologne. Here he took over the management of the now urban Dreikronenburse ( "[Gymnasium] Tricoronatum" ) on the Eigelstein , the predecessor of today's Dreikönigsgymnasium , which he had also attended. There he introduced the Jesuit study regulations for high schools; the number of students at the grammar school increased significantly in the following years. In 1560 he is named as a preacher at the Church of Our Lady in Trier, at Whitsun 1562 he took over the office of cathedral preacher at Cologne Cathedral in addition to his work on the Tricoronatum .

Johannes Rethius was stabbed to death on October 26, 1574 with two other Jesuits (Leonard Kessel SJ, the superior of the Cologne Jesuit branch, and Nikolaus Faber SJ) by their mentally ill brother Gerhard Pesch SJ with a kitchen knife.

literature

Heinz Finger : The beginnings of the Society of Jesus and the first Jesuit college in Cologne. An exhibition of the Diocesan and Cathedral Library Cologne in cooperation with the German Province of the Jesuits for the Ignatian Year 2006 (October 5 to December 15, 2006). Archbishop's Diocesan and Cathedral Library, Cologne 2006, IV) The Tricoronatum 247 A) Rethius and the beginning of the school.
Josef Kuckhoff: Johannes Rethius, the organizer of the cath. School system in Germany in the 16th century. Düsseldorf: Pädag. Ed., 1929.
Lothar Schilling : Rethius, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 446 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ Lothar Schilling: Rethius, Johannes. In: NDB . Volume 21, Berlin 2003, p. 446.
^ Lothar Schilling: Rethius, Johannes. In: NDB . Volume 21, Berlin 2003, p. 447.
Baltasar Fischer: The first Trier cathedral preachers from the Society of Jesus 1560-1607. In: For God and the people. The Society of Jesus and its work in the Archdiocese of Trier. Published by the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Trier and the library of the Episcopal Seminary Trier, Mainz 1991, pp. 255–271, here pp. 260f.
↑ Baltasar Fischer: The first Trier cathedral preachers from the Society of Jesus 1560-1607. In: For God and the people. The Society of Jesus and its work in the Archdiocese of Trier. Published by the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Trier and the library of the Episcopal Seminary Trier, Mainz 1991, pp. 255–271, here pp. 260f.
↑ Baltasar Fischer: The first Trier cathedral preachers from the Society of Jesus 1560-1607. In: For God and the people. The Society of Jesus and its work in the Archdiocese of Trier. Published by the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Trier and the library of the Episcopal Seminary Trier, Mainz 1991, pp. 255–271, here pp. 260f.

personal data
SURNAME	Rethius, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reidt, Johannes von; Reit, Johannes von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian and member of the Jesuit order
DATE OF BIRTH	1531
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	October 26, 1574
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Lothar Schilling: Rethius, Johannes. In: NDB . Volume 21, Berlin 2003, p. 446.

[2] Lothar Schilling: Rethius, Johannes. In: NDB . Volume 21, Berlin 2003, p. 447.
Baltasar Fischer: The first Trier cathedral preachers from the Society of Jesus 1560-1607. In: For God and the people. The Society of Jesus and its work in the Archdiocese of Trier. Published by the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Trier and the library of the Episcopal Seminary Trier, Mainz 1991, pp. 255–271, here pp. 260f.

[3] Baltasar Fischer: The first Trier cathedral preachers from the Society of Jesus 1560-1607. In: For God and the people. The Society of Jesus and its work in the Archdiocese of Trier. Published by the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Trier and the library of the Episcopal Seminary Trier, Mainz 1991, pp. 255–271, here pp. 260f.

[4] Baltasar Fischer: The first Trier cathedral preachers from the Society of Jesus 1560-1607. In: For God and the people. The Society of Jesus and its work in the Archdiocese of Trier. Published by the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Trier and the library of the Episcopal Seminary Trier, Mainz 1991, pp. 255–271, here pp. 260f.