Johannes Rode (Dean)

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Johannes Rode (* in Stadthagen ; † October 28, 1532 in Lübeck ) was canon , council secretary and cathedral dean in Lübeck.

Life

Johann Rode was a cleric in the diocese of Minden . He studied from Easter 1486 at the University of Rostock . He obtained his bachelor's degree in 1489 and received his master's degree in the winter semester of 1490/1491. In 1493 he enrolled as a graduate at the University of Greifswald . From Christmas 1500 to 1517 he was Council Secretary of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. From 1508 he was canon of Lübeck, from 1513 he was also canon of Schwerin . After the departure of the first council secretary Henning Osthusen , he kept the Lübeck Upper Town Book from 1514 as a protonotary . In 1515 he was the owner of the large prebende in the Lübeck cathedral chapter . As the lord of the Marienkirche in Lübeck around 1528 he was a figure of mockery among the Reformation-minded circles of the city's citizens. Soon after the death of the dean Johannes Brandes on January 14, 1531, Johannes Rode was elected dean by the Lübeck cathedral chapter. His preserved figure tombstone in Lübeck Cathedral is a second use. His date of death comes from this tombstone; the coats of arms on it are assigned to the previous user of the tombstone, the cathedral dean Bernhard Wessel († 1482).

“The name Johannes Rode is a common one at that time; belongs there ... - Magister Johann Rode. Church lord of our dear women in Lübeck, appears in ridiculous songs from 1528 to 1530, was secretary of the council, later dean. A Lübeck Canonicus Joh. Rode delivers an Epigramma ad lectorem for Boger's Etherologium in 1506. "

His brother Heinemann Rode was provost of Riga in 1530 . The Lübeck bishop Johannes Tiedemann and his brother Christoph Tiedemann were sons of his sister Geseke.

literature

  • Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council clerks until the constitutional amendment of 1851 , in: ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), p. 134
  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, p. 253 ff (with ill.). Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
  • Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 635/636 ( LÜDO189b ) ISBN 3-7995-5940-X
  • Wolfgang Prange : The change of the confession in the Lübeck cathedral chapter: 1530-1600. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2007 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck: Series B; Vol. 44) ISBN 978-3-7950-0484-2 . especially p. 121

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Karl Ernst Hermann Krause :  Johannes III., Archbishop of Bremen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 183-185.
personal data
SURNAME Rode, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canon and Council Secretary in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Stadthagen
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1532
Place of death Lübeck