Matthias Wanckel

Matthias Wanckel (also: Wanckelius ) (born February 24, 1511 in Hammelburg , † February 2, 1571 in Kemberg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

Life

Wanckel was a son of the Hammelburg mayor and later businessman in Transylvania Andreas Wanckel. After attending school in Hammelburg and Magdeburg, he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on January 28, 1529. In 1532 he accepted a position as a sub-teacher in Magdeburg . After he had acquired the academic degree of Magister of Artes Liberalis in January 1537, he took over the position of school rector in his native city. As a result, he was appointed to the University of Wittenberg in 1542 , from where Luther and Melanchthon sent him to the church of St. Moritz in Halle as chief preacher and pastor . In 1545 Wanckel took part in an important consultation with leading reformers in Merseburg . Wanckel co-wrote the sermons Luther gave in the cathedral there , “From the Kingdom of Christ” and “From Christian Marriage”, and had the texts printed in Halle in 1546, which made them generally known in terms of content. In 1552 Wanckel followed the late Bartholomäus Bernhardi as provost in Kemberg.

Wanckel was married twice. In his marriage to Katharina Bernhardi, the daughter of Bartholomäus Bernardi, in 1551, six daughters were born. In the second with the Schmiedeberger mayor's daughter Elisabeth Leffler, four sons and three daughters were born to him. Johannes Wanckel gained further importance from his children . The mathematician Ambrosius Rhode and his great-grandson Ambrosius Rhodius (astrologer) came from the marriage of his daughter Maria Wanckel to Ambrosius Rhodius .

After Wanckel's death, his wife, children and sons-in-law had a large epitaph built in the Kemberger Frauenkirche , which shows the most important stages in his life.

literature

• Johann Heinrich Feustking : The life of the first married preacher Bartholomäi Bernhardi von Feldkirchen. Wittenberg 1705, p. 54 ff.
• Karl Pallas : Registrations of the church visits in the former Saxon spa district, 1st part. Halle 1906, p. 182.
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Boppard / Rhein, 1972, Vol. 7, p. 314, R 6491
• Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02141-3 , Vol. 9, p. 237
• Heinrich Pröhle :  Wanckel, Matthias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 137 f.
• Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Wanckel (ius), Matthias. In: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath, AMF - No. 237, 2012, pp. 104-105.
• Hans-Joachim Böttcher: Historical grave monuments and their inscriptions in the Dübener Heide , AMF - No. 165, 2005, pp. 124–125.