Laurens Laurensen

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Laurens Laurensen (also Laurentius Laurentii ; * around 1495 in Wildeshausen ; † 1553 in Emden ) was a Dominican prior . He was best known for his participation in the Oldersum Religious Discussion in June 1526, in which he represented the Catholic side against the Protestant Emden preacher Georg Aportanus . Ulrich von Dornum's subsequent work on the debate was widely distributed and in this way contributed to the rapid implementation of Protestantism in East Frisia . Laurens Laurensen's counterpart, printed in Kampen in the Netherlands in 1527, was long considered lost. In the meantime, a single surviving copy has been discovered in the Royal Library of The Hague and republished in 2009.

Life

Laurens Laurensen studied theology at the University of Paris , where he earned his doctorate. From 1523 to 1533 he was prior of the Dominican monastery of Groningen . On March 12, 1523, he organized a theological debate in the monastery, the so-called Groninger Disputation, which dealt with questions of scholasticism . According to a paper published in Basel in the same year, the defenders of scholastic science, including Laurentius, did not achieve much. In 1526 he took part in the Oldersum Religious Discussion and defended Catholic doctrine here. Both sides then claimed victory for themselves. In 1530 Laurensen was appointed inquisitor of the dioceses of Utrecht and Munster by the general chapter in Rome .

literature

  • Martin Tielke (Ed.): The Oldersumer Disputation of 1526 . Bilingual edition of the representations of Ulrich von Dornum (translation by Gerhard Ohling) and Laurens Laurensens (translation by Enno Schmidt). Aurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-940601-06-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ J. van Herwaarden: Between Saint James and Erasmus: studies in late-medieval religious life: devotions and pilgrimages in the Netherlands . 2003, p. 567.
  2. ↑ Home page of November 4, 2009: Reformation took a different course than it has been handed down , viewed on August 23, 2010.
  3. ↑ Jan van den Broek: Groningen, een stad apart. Over het verleden van een peculiar city (1000–1600) . Van Gorcum, Assen 2007, ISBN 978-90-232-4323-6 , p. 128.
  4. ^ Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW): Laurentii, Laurentius , accessed on 23 August 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Laurensen, Laurens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laurentii, Laurentius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and Dominican prior
DATE OF BIRTH around 1495
PLACE OF BIRTH Wildeshausen
DATE OF DEATH 1553
Place of death Emden