Matthias Bredenbach

Matthias Bredenbach (* 1499 in Kierspe ; † June 5, 1559 in Emmerich ; also: Breidbach, Brempke ) was a German Catholic humanist and educator .

Life

Matthias Bredenbach, born in Kierspe in 1499 (the years 1500 and 1490 were also in circulation earlier), received training at a grammar school in Münster and then studied at the University of Cologne from 1521 . After he had obtained the academic degree of a Magister artium in 1524 , he was appointed lecturer at the grammar school in Emmerich the following year . In 1533 he was promoted to headmaster of the school, which now numbered around 1,500 students. On June 5, 1559 he died in Emmerich; he held the office of rector until his death.

Bredenbach had a good knowledge of Latin , Greek and Hebrew and gave lectures on the Bible. His son Tilmann , who was born in 1535, was a doctor of theology , canon of St. Gereon's Church in Cologne and died in 1587.

Works

• De dissidiis. Cologne 1557.

literature

• Carl Krafft :  Bredenbach, Matthias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 279.
• Robert Haaß :  Bredenbach, Matthias. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 566 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Bredenbach, Matthias. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 737.