Johannes Tiedemann

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Brass grave plate of Bishop Johannes Tiedemann in Lübeck Cathedral

Johannes Tiedemann (* 1503 in Stadthagen ; † April 17, 1561 in Bremen ) was Johannes IX. Bishop of Lübeck .

Life

Johann Tiedemann was a son of Hans Tiedemann and his wife Geseke and brother of Christoph Tiedemann . His mother was a sister of the Lübeck council secretary and cathedral dean Johannes Rode , who also came from Stadthagen . In 1528 Tiedemann received a prebend at Lübeck Cathedral . In 1544 he was appointed vice dean of the absent dean Johannes von Weeze . After his death in 1548, he was by the Cathedral Chapter to Domdekan elected and in the same year the vicar general for the absent Bishop Theodore of Rheden ordered. On August 11, 1559, the chapter elected him to succeed Andreas von Barby as Bishop of Lübeck. On February 20, 1561 he received papal confirmation, but died shortly afterwards.

His double epitaph together with his brother, the canons of Lübeck and Ratzeburg Christoph Tiedemann († 1561), with a Latin inscription, can be found in the ambulatory of Lübeck Cathedral . His monumental bronze tombstone in the Renaissance style is also in the cathedral, formerly in the choir, since the end of the 19th century on the south wall in the south aisle. It shows him in full pontificals , even if not yet consecrated with the miter in hand, and was made in 1563 by the Lübeck council founder Matthias Benningk . It is the only surviving Renaissance tombstone of this type and size in Lübeck.

literature

  • Wolfgang Prange: Johannes Tiedemann the last Catholic bishop of Lübeck. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. 1974, vol. 54-56 p. 7 f.
  • Karl Hengst : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448 to 1648. p. 93.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops up to the end of the sixteenth century - presented biographically, literarily, historically and in terms of church statistics . 1st volume, Leipzig 1858, pp. 562-589 .
  • Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: Directories of the German bishops since the year 800 AD. Geb. Minden 1854, S. 56-57 .
  • Hermann Grote : Family Tables, Leipzig 1877

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Latin inscription text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen : Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 83 ff. ISBN 3795004756
  2. ↑ Latin inscription text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen: Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 101 ISBN 3795004756
predecessor Office successor
Andrew from Barby Bishop of Lübeck
1559 - 1561 		Eberhard von Holle
personal data
SURNAME Tiedemann, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES John IX
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 1503
PLACE OF BIRTH Stadthagen
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1561
Place of death Bremen