Matthias Gretz

Matthias Gretz (* around 1480 in Haunstetten , † 1543 in Munich ; also Mathias Kretz ) was a German Catholic theologian , philosopher and poet .

Life

Gretz learned the Hebrew and Greek languages early on . He studied theology in Vienna and Tübingen from 1504 to 1512. Mathias Gretz taught the beautiful sciences in Polling from 1513 to 1516 and in 1518 he became a bachelor and master of theology. At the University of Ingolstadt , where he had studied after working in Polling, he became a teacher of philosophy ; there he also obtained a doctorate in philosophy. In 1519 Gretz was called to Augsburg as a preacher , after which he took on such a position in Munich. There he was appointed dean in 1533 and died in 1543. Gretz was a member of the Society of Scholars . Gretz was appointed to the Augsburg Reichstag in 1530 by Duke Wilhelm IV .

Works

• Ain sermon, containing quite a few sayings of the scriptures from the fegfewr (Augsburg 1524)
• Ain sermon of the peicht whether she commanded God (Augsburg 1524)
• From the Mesz and whoever is the right priest, has the Mass (Augsburg 1524)
• Brevis et plana sacratissimae missae elucidatio (Augsburg 1535)
• A sermon from the Turckenzug (Landshut 1533)

literature

• Hyacinth Holland :  Kretz, Matthias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 645.
• Arno Seifert : The University of Ingolstadt in the 15th and 16th centuries (Berlin 1973)
• Reinhard Tenberg:  Gretz, Matthias. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 649-650.
• Hermann Tüchle:  Kretz, Matthias. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 16 f. ( Digitized version ).