Laurentius Petri Gothus

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Laurentius Petri Gothus , actually Lars Petersson , to distinguish it from his predecessor with the nickname Gothus after his home province Östergötland , sometimes also Laurentius Petri the Younger (* 1529 or 1530 in Söderköping ; † February 12, 1579 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish theologian and the second Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala . He also made a name for himself as a poet of hymns and neo-Latin poems.

Life

Thanks to the support of Duke Erik , who later became King Erik XIV, Laurentius Petri Gothus was able to study Protestant theology at the University of Wittenberg from 1546 . After returning to Sweden due to the war, he came back to Wittenberg in 1557 and obtained his master's degree the following year . His most important teacher was Philipp Melanchthon . In 1559 he published the historical poem Stratagema Gothici Exercitus adversus Darium (about a battle of the Scythians , whom he saw as the ancestors of the Goths and thus in turn as the ancestors of the Swedes, against the Persian king Darius ), with which he influenced godicism.

After returning to his homeland in 1561, Laurentius Petri Gothus was appointed court preacher by the new King Erik, but turned to Germany again to perfect his studies, this time to the University of Rostock to David Chyträus . In June 1566 he received a professorship at Uppsala University , where he was rector in 1572. When Archbishop Laurentius Petri (Nericius) died, his son-in-law Laurentius Petri Gothus received significantly fewer votes in the election in June 1574 than the Orthodox Bishop of Linköping , Martinus Olai Gestricius , but was elected by King John III. appointed archbishop at the end of the year and officially introduced into his office in June 1575 with a Catholic episcopal ordination (which had not been carried out in the Church of Sweden for decades ). King Johann hoped that he would support him in the plans to reform the Lutheran Church in a humanist-reform Catholic sense. In fact, Laurentius Petri Gothus first supported the liturgy of 1576 ( Röda Boken ) imposed by the king with a preface. But when it became known in 1578 that the papal legate Antonio Possevino was in Stockholm for union talks and that the Jesuit Laurentius Nicolai Norvegus ( monastery class ) maintained a secret training center for Roman Catholic theologians there, the archbishop sharply opposed this with the writing Contra novas papistarum machinationes . Despite his imminent death, he was able to end the brief episode of an impending Swedish Counter-Reformation.

One of the hymns written by Laurentius Petri Gothus ( En syndig man ) is still represented in the current Swedish hymn book from 1986 (No. 533).

Laurentius Petri Gothus was married to Margareta, the daughter of his predecessor Laurentius Petri. The marriage resulted in two daughters. His nephew Laurentius Paulinus Gothus also served as Archbishop of Uppsala.

Works

  • Stratagema gothici exercitus: Ett återfunnit humanistepos . In: Samlaren , NF 3, 1922, pp. 251-276.
  • Birger Bergh (Ed.): En svensk latinpoet från 1500-talet . Stockholm 1973.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: sv: Författare: Laurentius Petri Gothus  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Laurentius Petri's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
predecessor Office successor
Laurentius Petri Archbishop of Uppsala
1575 - 1579 		Andreas Laurentii Björnram
personal data
SURNAME Petri Gothus, Laurentius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersson, Lars (real name); Petri, Laurentius the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish theologian and the second Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala
DATE OF BIRTH 1529 or 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Söderköping
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1579
Place of death Uppsala