Kaspar Gropper
Kaspar Gropper (* 1519 in Soest , North Rhine-Westphalia ; † March 19, 1594 in Cologne ) was a Catholic theologian , church politician and lawyer at the time of the Reformation .
Life
He was born on March 7, 1542 to the doctor of rights doctorate . 1547 he became dean in Xanten , on February 3, 1550 Offizial and 1552 canon of the archbishopric of Cologne . That same year he was also dean of the pin Marie degrees in Cologne .
In 1558 he traveled to Rome with his brother Johannes Gropper and in 1560 became an auditor of the Rota Romana .
On July 19, 1573, he and Nikolaus Elgard were sent to Germany as nuncio , where he carried out visitations and negotiated the highly controversial appointment of a bishop in the diocese of Münster . In 1575 he resigned from this office.
literature
- Christian Grebner: Kaspar Gropper (1514 to 1594) and Nikolaus Elgard (approx. 1538 to 1587), biography and reform activities. Aschendorff, Münster 1982, ISBN 3-402-03768-8 .
- Walter Lippgens: Gropper, Kaspar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 136 ( digitized version ).
- Heinrich Lutz : Gropper, Kaspar . In: Josef Höfer , Karl Rahner (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 2nd Edition. tape 4 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1960.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gropper, Kaspar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catholic theologian, church politician and lawyer during the Reformation |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1519 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soest , North Rhine-Westphalia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1594 |
| Place of death | Cologne |