Johannes von Indersdorf

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Johannes von Indersdorf , actually Johannes Rothuet , incorrectly also Brunner or Prunner (* 1382 ; † November 9, 1470 in Indersdorf ) was an Augustinian canon and provost in the Bavarian monastery of Indersdorf as well as a monastery reformer and a writer influenced by the pastoral theology of the Viennese school.

Johannes was born in 1382 to a Rothuet and the Afra, widowed Brunner. Johannes Rothuet enrolled at the University of Vienna on October 13, 1407 and was initially a schoolmaster at the monastery in Indersdorf. In 1412 or 1413 he joined the Augustinian Canons there in order to carry out a fundamental reform together with his half-brother Erhard Brunner, who came from Ara’s first marriage to Peter Brunner and was elected provost of the monastery in 1412.

At the instigation of Johannes, who was elected dean in 1413, the reform statutes of the Bohemian Raudnitz monastery were adopted in Indersdorf in 1417. As a result, the Augustinian Canons of Indersdorf became a center for the renewal of monastic life in Bavaria in the following years. Johannes von Indersdorf saw his work as an implementation of the church reforms called for by the Council of Constance (1414–1418). In 1442 Johannes was elected the 19th provost of Indersdorf to succeed his half-brother.

Johannes, who reformed around 25 other religious houses, was also the confessor of Duke Albrecht III. von Bayern-Munich and his wife Anna von Braunschweig. Duke Albrecht appointed him to the Privy Council after taking office in 1438. The literary work of Johannes von Indersdorf was entirely in the service of monastery reform (writings on mysticism) and pastoral care (prayer and devotional books, moral writings).

Works (selection)

  • In memoria dominice passionis latus thesaurus, quem u frater sic devote cogita (first version before 1442)
  • Two prayer and devotional books (1426 and 1429 for Elisabeth Ebran)
  • Princely teachings with Tobias teaching (1437 for the Wittelsbach duke Albrecht III and his wife Anna of Braunschweig)
  • Spiritual table speeches (1438)
  • Of three kinds of human beings (1440) - earlier incorrectly attributed to Geiler von Kaisersberg and Gallus von Königssaal; the work is a treatise on Christian mysticism.
  • Further works are not clearly secured in their attribution to Johannes von Indersdorf.

literature

  • Ernst Haberkern: Sparks from old embers - Johannes von Indersdorf: Of three kinds of human beings . Publishing house Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1997.
  • Josef Berghammer: Johannes Rothut, provost of the Indersdorf monastery. In: Ursula Katharina Nauderer (Hrsg.): Life pictures from ten centuries. A reader for the exhibition in the Dachau district museum . Dachau 1999, pp. 53-56.
  • Bernhard Haage:  Johannes von Indersdorf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , pp. 554 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Bernhard Haage: The treatise "on three different beings of people" . Dissertation . Heidelberg 1968.
  • Bernhard Dietrich Haage: A previously unpublished letter from Johannes von Indersdorf. Everyday school life in the Middle Ages. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 10, 2014, pp. 81-88.
  • Walther Killy (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 5, 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrea Klein: Johannes von Indersdorf studied in Vienna. In: Journal for German Philology. Volume 115, 1996, pp. 439-442.
personal data
SURNAME Johannes von Indersdorf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johannes Rothuet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Augustinian canon and mystic
DATE OF BIRTH 1382
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1470
Place of death Indersdorf