Marcus of Weida

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Marcus von Weida (* 1450 in Weida ; † 1516 ) was a Leipzig Dominican and ecclesiastical writer. He was born in Weida and joined the order in Leipzig in early youth. Around 1483 he stayed in Eger in the local monastery. Soon afterwards he returned to Leipzig as a preacher and lecturer (reading master).

In 1487 he was commissioned by the brothers to advocate a religious affair with Duke Friedrich. In the same year his main work appeared, the treatise on Spigell of the religious order . It was a collection of various sermons on the subject of marriage and raising children.

In 1503 he printed the mystical work Liber specialis gratiae by Mechthild von Hackeborn at Melchior Lotter in Leipzig . In the preface he reports that Duchess Sidonie von Böhmen had received him in Tharandt and that they were studying a German translation of the book there together, whereupon the Duchess expressed the wish that such an excellent book should be printed.

He led the Weida nunnery together with the prioress Margaretha von Hutten to an economic boom.

From 1513 Marcus von Weida was responsible for studying at the Dominican monastery in Leipzig as Regens , and later he became vicarius .

On July 26, 1516 he was mentioned for the last time in a document.

Works

  • Spigell of the Religious Order, 1487 (Anthony van der Lee (ed.), Marcus von Weida, Spigell of the Religious Order (Sources and Research on the Devotional Literature of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period I), Assen 1972.)
  • A useful Lere and unterweysunge wye and what. man should pray, 1502 at Melchior Lotter in Leipzig
  • The book of spiritual graces, revelations, whimsical and whimsical lives of saints iungfrawen Mechtildis and Gertrudis, Closter iungfrawen des closter Helffede, Leyptzk: Lotter, 1503 online
  • The mirror of the most lavish brotherhood of Rosenkrantz Marie, the very purest Jungfrawen: vff begere, the noble high-born princess, vnd frawen ... Barbara geborn out of royal family [m] czu Poln, Hertzogin czu Sachssen, Lantgrauin in Doringe [n] vn [d ] Margkgrauin czu Meyssen, czu Leyptzk made, and printed online in 1515 by Melchior Lotter in Leipzig

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  1. ^ Nicolaus Paulus: Marcus von Weida. A Dominican of the Late Middle Ages, Journal of Catholic Theology, Vol. 26, no. 2 (1902), pp. 247-262
  2. ↑ Walther Killy (Hrsg): Weida, Marcus von In: Literature Lexicon: Authors and works in the German language. Volume 12, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1988–1992.
  3. ^ Thomas Döring, The Leipzig book printing before the Reformation, in: Bücher, Drucker, Libraries in Central Germany, edited by Enno Bünz, p. 95 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Weida, Marcus from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dominican in Leipzig and ecclesiastical writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1450
PLACE OF BIRTH Weida
DATE OF DEATH 1516