Johannes Rode
Johannes Rode OCart (* around 1373 in Hamburg ; † 1438 or 1439 in Stettin ) was prior of the Kartausen Königsfeld , Stettin and Frankfurt (Oder) as well as the author of Latin and Low German spiritual treatises .
Johannes Rode came from a Hamburg patrician family. His father Nikolaus Rode died in 1387. From around 1389, Johannes studied the Seven Liberal Arts at Charles University in Prague and, presumably, in 1391 acquired the academic degree of Baccalaureus . A year later he enrolled at the Faculty of Law and in 1395 he is attested as a master's degree .
On October 18th ( probably in the year 1400 ) he joined the Carthusian Order and became a member of the Prague Charterhouse "Mariengarten" , to which several students and masters of the university belonged before. From 1406 to 1408 he was the prior of the Kartause Königsfeld near Brno , from 1412 to 1416 the Kartause Frankfurt (Oder) and then until 1433 the Kartause Stettin . After the Frankfurt Charterhouse went under in the Hussite Wars , it was rebuilt in 1433 and Johannes Rode was its prior again for two more years until 1435. There he died in 1438 or 1439 as a simple monk.
Johannes Rode wrote several sacred writings in Latin and Low German , of which only four have survived in the form of letters, which have been handed down in several manuscripts. In one of the letters he criticizes the way of life of the secular priests as well as their striving for preambles and offices, in another he recommends the monastic life as a sure way to salvation . In a letter from around 1420, he criticized, among other things, the ownership and poor education of the Hamburg Benedictine nuns , while in a letter written in 1425 to the Birgittesses of Reval, he praised their exemplary way of life.
The Carthusian Johannes Rode should not be confused with the Benedictine abbot of the same name .
literature
- Father Petrus Becker OSB: Johannes Rode (died 1439). In: Rheinische Lebensbilder, Volume 7. Ed. By Bernhard Poll on behalf of the Society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1977, pp. 25-42.
- Stephanie Haarländer : Rode, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 691 ( digitized version ).
- Franz Machilek: Church reforms of the 14th and 15th centuries Century . In: Winfried Eberhard and Franz Machilek (eds.): Church reform impulses of the 14./14. Century in East Central Europe . Böhlau-Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-26105-4 , p. 29
Individual evidence
- ^ Stephanie Haarländer: Rode, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 691 f. ( Digitized version ). (Benedictine, around 1385 - December 3, 1439)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rode, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Order chaplain, prior of the Carthusian monasteries in Königsfeld, Frankfurt (Oder) and Stettin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1373 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1438 or 1439 |
| Place of death | Szczecin |