Matthew Ludecus

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Canon in Havelberg

Matthäus Ludecus ( Latinized from Lüdke , also Luidtke or Lüdecke , born September 21, 1517 in Wilsnack , † November 12, 1606 in Havelberg ) was a German lawyer. As cathedral dean at Havelberg Cathedral , he completed the reformation of the cathedral chapter.

CV and job

Ludecus was the eldest son of Anna Dick and Matthæus Lüdecke. He spent his childhood and youth in Wilsnack. At the age of 22 he went to Perleberg , Pritzwalk , Salzwedel and Wittstock for training . The bishop of Havelberg Busso X. von Alvensleben arranged for his cousins ​​to be employed as court master, while Ludecus also waited in the episcopal chancellery. When the bishop died in 1548, Ludecus went to study at the University of Frankfurt / Oder . At Easter 1550 he was employed as a clerk by Curdt von Rohr , captain of the Prignitz and the Land of Ruppin . He worked for von Rohr for four years "and in such a time he had a lot of trouble and displeasure / with riding and writing / day and night." By advocating von Rohrs, he received a position as secret secretary with a grant of 50 from the city of Lüneburg Talers annually so that he could continue his legal training. At the same time, Captain von Rohr ensured that the Elector and Margrave of Brandenburg, Joachim II , promised Ludecus a vacancy at the cathedral of Havelberg as canon (Canonicus). So Ludecus went to Frankfurt to study. He had hardly settled down there when Canon Conradus Schollene died in Havelberg . Matthew went to Havelberg and was accepted as successor by the cathedral chapter on May 30, 1554 , and was appointed a benefice . As a canon he went back to Frankfurt to study. He turned down a job in Lüneburg. He did not want to be committed for as long as was asked. In 1556 he accepted a job with the city of Prenzlow as legal advisor (Syndicus).

When his “dear and dear friend” Joachim Karsted, the Prignitz district taker, died in 1560, Captain Curdt von Rohr made sure that Ludecus got this office. Ludecus now gave up his office in Prenzlow and faced the office as a district collector (tax collector) 20 years ago "not without hard labor / pain and work". He was hardworking and was thanked for his efforts.

In 1562 he moved to Havelberg in order to better devote himself to his office as canon. Here too he was restless and did a good job for 44 years. When Hieronymus Woderich died, Ludecus became cathedral dean in Havelberg in 1573. He was the first Protestant dean of the cathedral because Hieronymus Woderich, who had not given up the Catholic faith, was already in office before the introduction of the Reformation. He was introduced to office on September 28, 1573. He finished a lot of “Bäpstische / unnecessary ceremonies” and in this office carefully set Reformation accents, for example through the new version of the statutes of the cathedral chapter. So that “God's word, on the other hand, would like to be driven louder and pure / alongside the catechism sermon and holy biblicals”, he had a pulpit built at his own expense. Together with his canons, he founded the first cathedral school in Havelberg. He remained dean for almost 33 years and administered the office with honesty and prudence. "Despite unfavorable / hatred / and persecution of enemy and friend, he strived with the greatest diligence to ensure that the cathedral chapter would remain and be preserved in its old status and dignity". Dealing with the canons was respectful and honorable, as was the city council. When he wanted to give up the tax collector's office in Prignitz after 20 years, he was urged to continue to exercise the supervisory authority, which he then did until his death.

He regularly attended sermons and services, did not miss the canons' meetings and faithfully fulfilled his duties, even when he was “a little weak and incapable of setting a bad example”.

Epitaph in the Havelberg Cathedral for Matthäus Ludecus

Ludecus is also of importance as a historian of the monastery and of the upheavals of the Reformation period in the Prignitz , for example with his relic-critical history of the invention, miracles and destruction of the supposedly holy blood at Wilssnagk about the miracle of the Host in the Wunderblutkirche , which appeared in print in 1586. An allegedly bleeding host was worshiped. It was not until 1552 that the first Lutheran “prädicant” to Wilsnack, Joachim Ellefeld , burned the “idolatry”. In a side chapel of the Havelberg Cathedral there is a pictorial epitaph of Matthäus Ludecus, which shows him under the cross and represents a link between the private immortalization of the deceased and the manifesto of the views proclaimed in his writings.

Above all, however, two books published by him in 1589 for the liturgy in the cathedral, the Missal and the Vesperale and Matutinale , set standards. The Missal also contains the text of the Quempas , an early modern compilation of two Latin Christmas carols.

Ludecus also published a large church hymn book at Wittenberg in 1589, the songs of which can still be found in Protestant hymn books today.

He prepared carefully for his death. He devoted morning and evening to devotion. He had the coffin and grave slab made himself. He always carried a document on how his body was to be dressed and buried after his death, as well as a little book with thoughts about death.

His eyesight dwindled with old age, so he had his servant read to him, he suffered from “severe weakness and illness, his legs swelled up and he also had major pain from them / which he all suffered with patience”. His condition worsened more and more so that he was "neither able to sit / walk nor league properly".

On November 12, 1617 between 11 a.m. and 12 noon, he slept gently in the presence of his family and several canons. The mourning congregation wished that “the merciful God would mercifully bestow him and all believers in Christ / a joyous resurrection on the last day / to the eternal and ineffable heavenly life”.

The above curriculum vitae is essentially based on the funeral sermon of Rheins. With the kind permission of Florian Seiffert, some of the summary was taken verbatim.

His successor as dean in Havelberg was Canon Reimar von Karstedt , possibly the son of the above. Joachim Karsted, after whose death in 1560 Ludecus became the district taker of the Prignitz.

family

Seal of the Lüdke family with the crane as heraldic animal (approx. 1730)

The Luidtke family (later Lüdke ) is an example of the close relationships between several families (Schönebeck, Salzwedel, Prätorius, Luidtke) in the Altmark ( Stendal , Havelberg ) at the beginning of modern times. Matthäus Ludecus was the theologian of the Reformation, who enforced the Reformation as cathedral dean in Havelburg, while his direct descendant Friedrich Germanus Lüdke, as an important theologian of the Enlightenment, contributed to adapting the Evangelical Lutheran Church to the requirements of modern times.

In 1558 Matthäus Ludecus married Anna Daniels in Perleberg, the daughter of Catharina Frick and Henrich Daniels, a citizen of Perleberg. The two were given five sons (Matthæus, Marcus, Lucas, Johannes, Ernestus) and two daughters (Anna and Blandina). The married couple raised their children in "discipline and meritability" and took a lot of money to send their sons to universities. The eldest son Matthæus also became canon in Havelberg. Marcus and Johannes became councilors at Perleberg and Havelberg. Ernestus died while studying. Matthæus, Marcus and Blandina were still alive when their father Matthæus died in 1606.

Foundations

Ludecus promoted students and "shook hands with some poor fellows / and gave some help to the studio".

He first set up a foundation so that “12 poor people ... are dressed / and provided with shoes for and for” in his hometown Wilsnack on his birthday. The foundation deed is printed in the Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis. The deed has since been restored.

This foundation was endowed with a capital of 500 Reichstalers , which was invested in a bond of the city of Havelberg and which had an interest rate of 5%. Due to the Thirty Years' War, the city of Havelberg was practically bankrupt and the endowment capital was litigated before the Court of Justice until 1681. The foundation was able to be reanimated. Accounts have been received for the period from 1765 to 1789. Further information about this foundation is no longer available.

He made an annual rye donation for Perleberg , his wife's hometown, so that students could earn a living at universities for three years. The deed of foundation is printed in the Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis.

This foundation lost its assets due to the inflationary period after the First World War , so that it was completely destroyed after it, like other foundations that came into being after the Reformation, had been beneficial for centuries.

Family name and coat of arms

In the poem by Reineke Fuchs (Goethe) the crane is referred to as "Kranich Lütke". This is likely the origin of the family name, such as B. with other surnames that are derived from animal names (such as bird, hare, ostrich, sparrow, etc.).

Descent list

  • Matthäus Ludecus (Latinized from Luidtke; 1517–1606), lawyer; Theologian, first Evangelical Lutheran Cathedral dean at Havelberg Cathedral
  • Lucas Luidtke (approx. 1562–1596), lawyer and canon in Havelberg
  • Germanus Luidtke (1592–1672), lawyer and mayor in Stendal, ordinator of the Kurmärkischen landscape
  • Christian Luidtke (1621 – after 1685), lawyer and mayor in Stendal
  • Germanus Lüdke (1683–1735), theologian, archdeacon in Stendal Cathedral
  • Friedrich Germanus Lüdke (1730–1792), important German Protestant theologian of the Enlightenment.

Family Luidtke (Lüdke), descendants

  • Matthäus Ludecus (1517–1606), first Protestant canon at the monastery at Havelberg, who was married to Anna Dannels, is the namesake of the family and ancestor.
  • Lucas Luidtke (approx. 1562–1596) son of Matthäus Ludecus, was also a lawyer and canon in Havelberg. He was married to Catharina Hoffmeister, a granddaughter of the Brandenburg Chancellor Johann Weinlob , who decisively shaped the reorganization of church relations after the Reformation in Brandenburg, both legally and administratively.
  • Blandina Goldbeck b. Luidtke (1574–1608), German housewife in the Hanseatic city of Werben (Elbe) . Wife of Christoph Goldbeck (1568–1621), councilor in Werben and Erbsaß (heir) on Räbel und Berge (districts of Werben), who donated a grave monument to the Werbener "sculptor and carpenter" Hans Hacke .
  • Germanus Luidtke (1592–1672) was just 4 years old when his father Lucas Luidtke died. His grandfather, Matthäus Ludecus, and his stepfather, the mayor of Stendal, Johann Salzwedel , provided for upbringing and studying. Germanus Luidtke was mayor of Stendal for many years during the Thirty Years' War, when Stendal was occupied by the Swedes, and an ordinarian of the Kurmark landscape. He married Anna Krahne, with whom he had several children.
  • Adam Luidtke was the eldest son of Germanus Luidtke . His daughter Anna Luidtke married around 1672 Johann Prätorius (Johann Schulze), the pastors of Seitz and Winzelberg (1672–1677) and of Neuenfels Monastery (1677–1713).
  • Germanus Luidtke (Hofrat) was also a son of Germanus Luidtke. He was the high princely Brandenburg court advisor and secretary in Bayreuth.
  • Christian Luidtke (1621 – after 1685), was also a son of Germanus Luidtke . He was councilor, senior secretary and mayor (1685) in Stendal. In 1668 he married Maria Hedwig Schönebeck, the daughter of the treasurer and mayor of Stendal Benedikt Schönebeck . Benedikt Schönebeck (* 1597, † 1665), from 1626 mayor of Stendal several times, was the son of the mayor of Stendal and founder of the Schönebeck Foundation , Bartholomäus Schönebeck (1548–1605), who in 1581 was 16-year-old Margarethe Salzwedel, daughter of the Mayor of Stendal Johann Salzwedel , (stepfather of Germanus Luidtke) had married.
  • Elisabeth Luidtke , came from the later marriage of Germanus Luidtke to Elisabeth Lentin, the widow of the electoral Brandenburg bailiff of Neuendorf, Heinrich Döhren, who married Christoph Praetorius , the Altmark lawyer at the Quarterly Court and song poet in Stendal . He is not identical to Christoph Praetorius , who was born in Bunzlau.
  • Germanus Lüdke (1683–1735), son of Christian Luidtke , studied in Halle with August Hermann Francke , then from 1713 he was the youngest deacon at the cathedral in Stendal and most recently archdeacon. He was buried in the cathedral. Its epitaph is in the Stendal Cathedral. He was married to Maria Elisabeth Otte,
  • Friedrich Germanus Lüdke (1730–1792), son of Germanus Lüdke , was born in Stendal and, like his father, studied theology in Halle, where he was still influenced by Halle Pietism. After his time as a field preacher in the Seven Years' War, he became an important theologian of the Enlightenment. He was the author of many theological writings and reviews and most recently archdeacon of the Nicolaikirche in Berlin, where he was buried. He was married to Charlotte Luise Weissenberg.
King David with the harp, woodcut from Matthäus Ludecus (Lüdtke): Complet Gesang Simeonis des just, Lord, nu lessestu your servant in the fride faren, Leipzig, Hans Steinmann for Ernst Vögelin, 1581

Fonts

For a complete overview, see CERL Thesaurus, The Gateway to the Printed European Cultural Heritage, accessed digitally on August 24, 2017 [2] and OCLC WorldCat Identities, accessed digitally on August 24, 2017 [3]

The following works are significant:

  • Imprint of a letter and a single report As in our times in these swiftly flowing articles of justice, and the noble sacrament of the altar, a righteous Christian preacher was to be recognized and distinguished from the wicked. To the ... Virgin Lucia von Konningesmarcken Begebner in the monastery of Saints dig. Drch Ernn Mattheusen Ludtken / Thumherrn der Stifftkirchen Hauelbergk .. 1567 (VD16 ZV 16731)
  • AVSerlesene, absolutely wonderful and friendly presentations | the next most consoling pieces about the Sundays and the Feast of Euangelia Epistles S. Pauli and other words of consolation ... From the ... D. Mart. Luther's blessed and others judge the scriptures of this time drawn together and understood. Next to it are terrible ... consolations from the old church teachers ..., Rostock 1572, (VD16 ZV 26043)
  • Complet singing of Simeonis des just: Therein the noble and golden art of death, recently composed in four rules, Leipzig 1581, (VD16 L 3182) (VD16 L 3184) digital
  • Historia of the invention, wonders and destruction of the supposed holy blood to Wilssnagk. Sampt the writing about this and against it all lovers of the divine truth and especially the itzigen youth to good with great hard work carried out by Mathaeum Ludecum., Wittenberg: Schleich, 1586 (VD16 L 3181) (VD16 L 3182) digital digital
  • Vesperale, et matutinale, hoc est, Cantica, hymni, et collectae, sive precationes ecclesiasticae, quae in primis et secundis vesperis, itemqúe matutinis precibus, per totius anni circulum, in ecclesijs ... cantari usitatè solent, notis ritè applicatae ... a Matthaeo Ludeco ... Prior Pars de tempore, Posterior Pars de Sanctis, Wittenberg 1589, with a preface by David Chyträus , (VD16 L 3185) digital
  • Missale, Hoc Est Cantica, Preces, Et Lectiones Sacræ, Qvæ Ad Missæ Officivm, Ex Pio Primævæ Ecclesiæ instituto, in templis Christianorum, cantari usitate solent, in communem Ecclesiæ Dei usum & utilitatem collectæ, ac in duas partes ordine distribute (co-author: Zacharias Lehmann; Samuel Selfisch ), 1589 (VD16 L 3183) (VD16 ZV 21178) digital
  • Psalterium Davidis, Prophetæ Ac Regis, Iuxta Veterem Translationem, Una cum Antiphonis Et Psalmorum Tropis: In septem partes, ad numerum dierum unius hebdomadae digestum, et ad matutinas, et vespertinas preces accomodatum (co-author: Zacharias Lehmann; Samuel Selfisch , Wittenberg 1589 (VD16 ZV 1721)) digital .
  • Coelestis sapientiae Trias: Kurtze and correct instructions for heavenly wisdom ..., Wittenberg 1599 (VD16 ZV 9942) digital (author not named on the main title page )
  • The article of our Christian faith of the forgiveness of sins, unequivocally declared and expounded by Matthaeum Ludecum, ThomDechanten der Bischoffli | chen Stifftkirchen Havelberg. With a preface by Mr. D. AEgidij Hunnij (Agidius Hunnius the Elder ), Wittenberg 1599, (VD16 ZV 9941) digitized
  • The Vesperale et Matutinale of the Havelberg cathedral dean Matthaeus Ludecus: Reprint of a Lutheran office book from 1589: Querfurt, archive of the Evangelical Church Congregation St. Lamperti, signature F 4, introduced and edited by Andreas Odenthal, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-936741-56- 8 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Lüdke family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curt (Konrad) von Rohr (Rhor), Lord of Freienstein and Neuhausen (approx. 1490–1573)
  2. ↑ a b Bartholomäus Rheins: Christian funeral sermon Bey the Begrebnüß des Ehrwirdigen Ehrnvesten vnd Hochgelarten Mr. MATTHÆI Luidtkens . Christoph Lippold, Jena 1608 ( florian-seiffert.de )
  3. ↑ Kapustka: The true host and the brazen serpent . In: Communications of the Association for the History of Prignitz , Vol. 7, Perleberg 2007, p. 121 ff.
  4. ^ Family research Florian Seiffert, digital florian-seiffert.de
  5. ↑ This information still needs to be checked. From Bartholomäus Rheins Christian funeral sermon Bey the Begrebnüß deß Venerable Vests and Hochgelarten Mr. MATTHÆI Luidtkens . Christoph Lippold, Jena 1608 florian-seiffert.de the predecessor is called "Joachim Karsted". Furthermore, Reimar von Karstedt was enrolled in Rostock as early as 1577. If his father were to be identical with the circle holder, he would have to have died immediately after the birth. Against this, however, speaks that Reimar von Karstedt's father was married in a second marriage. He is said to have signed documents after 1560. (Ancestry.com, Family Trees, Meyer-Wölky and von Karstedt ancestors , accessed on May 31, 2016, digitally [1] )
  6. ^ Adolf Friedrich Riedel, Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis, History of the spiritual foundations, the noble families, as well as the cities and castles, Volume 1; Volume 3, Berlin 1843, pp. 73 ff, digital
  7. ↑ Adolf Friedrich Riedel, Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis, history of spiritual foundations, noble families, as well as cities and castles, volumes 1–2, Berlin 1842, 173 f, digital
  8. ↑ Cathedral monastery archive Brandenburg / Havel. (2017-09-20). The Havelberg cathedral dean Matthäus Ludecus (Mattheus Luidtke) established a foundation ... (1598). accessed on November 3, 2018 under digital
  9. ↑ Uwe Czubatynski: Historical perspectives of church foundations . In: Reports and research from the Brandenburg Cathedral Foundation , I, 2008, p. 143 ff.
  10. ↑ Uwe Czubatynski, The Pearl Berger Scholarship Foundation of Matthew Ludecus. In: Jahrbuch für Brandenburgische Landesgeschichte 54 (2003), pp. 143–151 m. Fig. And in: ders., Church history and regional history. 3rd, supplemented edition, Nordhausen 2007, pp. 381-390.
  11. ^ Adolf Friedrich Riedel, Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis, History of the spiritual foundations, the noble families, as well as the cities and castles, Volumes 1–2, Berlin 1842, p. 181 digital
  12. ↑ Uwe Czubatynski: Foundations of the early modern times in Perleburg ... In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Prignitz , Vol. 13, Perleberg 2013, p. 64
  13. ↑ See the adjacent illustration of the Lüdke family's seal. The heraldic animal can also be found in the journal of Germanus Luidtke ( illustration ). See also the adjacent illustration of Matthäus Ludecus with crane coat of arms in Seidel's picture collection, 1751, portraitindex.de
  14. ↑ Bartholomaeus Rheins: Christl. Funeral sermon for Matthaeus Ludecus . Jena 1608
  15. ↑ a b c Matthias Bugaeus: funeral sermon for Germanus Luidtke . Stendal 1673 (Braunschweig City Archives, Vol. 95 No. 25)
  16. ↑ Uwe Czubatynski: Evangelical pastor book for the Altmark . 2nd edition 2006, p. 191, rambow.de (PDF)
  17. ↑ Marriage book of the Church of St. Marien in Stendal No. 6/1668
  18. ↑ Baptismal register of the Church of St. Marien in Stendal No. 36/1648
  19. ↑ Article “Praetorius, Christoph” from lu in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 26 (1888), p. 515, URL: Digital full-text edition in Wikisource
  20. ↑ thesaurus.cerl.org
  21. ↑ Rob. Eitner:  Praetorius, Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 515.
personal data
SURNAME Ludecus, Matthew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthäus Lüdecke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cathedral dean in Havelberg
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1517
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Wilsnack
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1606
Place of death Havelberg