Nicolaus Celer

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Master of the Byzantine Madonna: Coronation of Mariae , around 1516, tempera on wood, Leipzig City History Museum, Leipzig

Nicolaus Celer (also Zehler or Zceler ; from Breslau ; † 23 August 1516 ) was a Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

Celer was dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig in 1493 and 1495 . In the winter semester of 1498 he became rector of the university. At the same time he was rector of the Thomas School in Leipzig around 1494 . He also worked as a preacher at the Nikolaikirche . After his death in 1516, Adolf von Anhalt-Zerbst , Bishop of Merseburg , ordered the epitaph Coronation of Mariae for Nicolaus Celer from the master of the Byzantine Madonna . It is now in the Leipzig City History Museum .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The rectors and their office  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 9, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archiv.uni-leipzig.de  
  2. ↑ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick (Ed.): St. Thomas zu Leipzig. School and choir. Place of work of Johann Sebastian Bach. Pictures and documents on the history of the St. Thomas School and the St. Thomas Choir with their contemporary historical relationships . Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 46.
  3. ^ Markus Leo Mock: Art under Archbishop Ernst of Magdeburg . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2007, p. 143.
personal data
SURNAME Celer, Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zehler, Nicolaus; Zceler, Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1516