Nicolaus Oemler

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Nicolaus Oemler , also Nikolaus Oemler , Nikolaus Öhmler the Elder , (* 1475 or 1480 in Piskaborn ; † April 8, 1555 in Mansfeld ) was a German entrepreneur and close confidante and brother-in-law of Martin Luther . He is the father of the German reformer Georg Aemilius .

Life

Nicolaus Oemler had a friendship with Martin Luther from an early age, whom he occasionally carried in his arms to school in the city of Mansfeld. The childhood friendship later turned into a relative, since Nicolaus Oemler was his first wife to marry a sister of Luther. After her death, Oemler married Anna Reinicke, daughter of Bergvogt Peter Reinicke and sister of Hans Reinicke , a second marriage. In addition to Georg, they both had sons Nicolaus Öhmler the younger as well as Philipp and Valentin Öhmler (Oemler). When his son Latinized the family name in Aemilius, he, who also spoke Latin, was not happy about it.

Together with Hans Reinicke, he worked several times as a middleman between the Counts of Mansfeld and the Counts of Stolberg, which mainly concerned extensive financial transactions. They also stayed several times at the trade fairs and markets in Leipzig and Naumburg (Saale) . Oemler's son Georg became superintendent of Count Botho zu Stolberg in 1553.

Honors

In the Georgskirche in Mansfeld a window is decorated with the picture of Nicolaus Oemler.

literature

  • Ulf Sauter: In Martin Luther's footsteps in Stolberg / Harz. Personalities from the family and business environment of Luther in Stolberg / Harz. Insights into the development of the Reformation. Stolberg / Harz, self-published, 2016, pp. 86–90.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are both years, they u. a. here: [1] .
  2. ↑ Ulf Sauter: In Martin Luther's footsteps in Stolberg / Harz. Personalities from the family and business environment of Luther in Stolberg / Harz. Insights into the development of the Reformation. Stolberg / Harz, self-published, 2016, p. 89.
  3. ↑ Margot Käßmann: Sermon in the Georgskirche on the anniversary of Martin Luther's enrollment in Mansfeld on April 11, 2015 ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekd.de
personal data
SURNAME Oemler, Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Öhmler, Nikolaus the Elder Ä .; Öhmler, Nikolaus the Elder; Oemler, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miner
DATE OF BIRTH 1475 or 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH Piskaborn
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1555
Place of death Mansfeld