Michael Roting

Michael Roting (Röting) (* 1494 in Sülzfeld ; † May 22, 1588 ) was one of the first teachers at the Melanchthon grammar school in Nuremberg and fellow member of Philipp Melanchthon .

Life

Michael Roting was born in Sülzfeld (Franconia) in 1494 and studied in Ingolstadt, Leipzig and as a student of Philpp Melanchthon in Wittenberg . In 1526 Michael Roting became a teacher of rhetoric and dialectics at the first humanistic German grammar school - the Melanchthon grammar school in Nuremberg - which was opened in 1526 according to the principles of his friend Philipp Melanchthon. In Wittenberg he was a pupil of Melanchthon - along with Joachim Camerarius, who later became the principal of the Melanchthons grammar school. Michael Roting prepared the Latin translation of Martin Luther's house postil and edited it in 1545. From 1535 to 1545 Roting published Luther's Genesis Lecture (see Weimarer Lutherausg. 44, pp. XXI-XXIII).

Roting had 14 children with his wife Katharina. His son Lazarus Röting , born in 1549, was severely handicapped and in the early 17th century devoted himself to animal painting and nature studies, which were collected in 1615 in the natural history picture atlas Theatrum Naturae and today are among the most valuable items in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin .

Michael Roting was one of Nuremberg's opponents of Osiander and was thus an opponent of Osiander's doctrine of justification and involved in the Osiander dispute . He was the first to campaign against Osiander through a public document.

Roting and the Four Apostles

Albrecht Dürer's The Four Apostles , created in the year the school was founded in 1526, bear the facial features of those involved in the founding of the school: the evangelist Johannes resembles Melanchthon, Petrus resembles Michael Roting, Markus resembles the poet Eobanus Hessus and Paulus the rector Joachim Camerarius (Scheible p. 76f. with fig. 18, 1, 2, 15).

epitaph

Epitaph Michael Roting

In 1589 Roting's sons-in-law and nephews erected an epitaph for him . The translated version is:

Epitaph

dedicated to the memory of the best and extremely learned Michael Roting.

Consecrated to God, the best and three times greatest,
and to the pious hands
of brother Michael Roting,
the patriciate teacher for liberal arts and philosophy,
once among the nobles of Nuremberg,
the head and venerable head of the free city school.

Michael Roting is surrounded by excavated earth, and
Francus Vogel is taught art, customs and beliefs.

Luther preferred this to his friends, whether it was extreme loyalty, and he
even shared his innermost plans willingly with him.

Praiseworthy of the man's energy: The youth of the Noric Free State was
given to him to adorn them with a gift from the Muses.

He resisted Osiander's madness, who shamefully denied
that we would become just, Christ through your bloody suffering.

Now triumphs, freed from fetters, the soul in the ether,
the rotten bones await the return of the self.

Christ, give to die well,
to take you in death as the only victor ! Whoever believes rejoices forever.

He passed away in AD 1588
on the eleventh day before the June calendars,
after living for 94 years.

This monument (erected) for the father, grandfather and father-in-law
the children BDSMFC, the sons-in-law and nephews in 1589 AD.

Works

• Adhortatio ad eos qui docent in ecclesia Noribergensi. 1555. [ VD 16 R 3323]
• Adhortatio ad eos qui docent in ecclesia Noribergensi. 1555. [VD 16 R 3324]
• Quite a few young preachers in Nuernberg responsible against the indictment Andreae Osiandri so ... 1552. [VD 16 R 3325]
• TESTIMONIVM OPTIMI AC DOCTISSIMI VIRI D. Michaelis Rotingi unius è populo Ecclesiastico ... 1551. [VD 16 R 3326]

literature

• Postille Luther [1]
• Osiander in Prussia 1549-1552 [2]
• The four apostles in the two representations by Albrecht Dürer [3]
• The Reformation and its outsiders: collected essays and lectures [4]