Nicolaus Peträus

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Nicolaus Peträus and his wife Katharina, detail from his epitaph in the Ratzeburg Cathedral

Nicolaus Peträus , also: Petraeus , Latinized from originally Petersen (born September 10, 1569 in Husum , † January 5, 1641 in Ratzeburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian and superintendent of the Ratzeburg monastery .

life and work

Peträus came from a wealthy Husum family and was initially raised privately. As a teenager he went to teachers in Magdeburg , Walkenried , Ilfeld and Braunschweig . He studied at the universities of Rostock , Helmstedt , Leipzig and Jena , where he obtained a master's degree in 1591 . In 1597, after an exam in Rostock, he was appointed superintendent by the cathedral chapter in Ratzeburg and ordained in November by Lucas Bacmeister in Rostock. At Palmarum in 1598 he came to Ratzeburg and held his inaugural sermon in Ratzeburg Cathedral on Maundy Thursday . In 1600 he received his doctorate in theology from the theological faculty of the University of Rostock.

Peter is considered to be the most important of the monastery superintendents. The time of his 43 years as superintendent was one of the most difficult in the diocese, initially marked by conflicts between the administrator Duke Karl I of Mecklenburg and the coadjutor August von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , who was elected against his will by the chapter , then between him and Duke Johann Albrecht II . von Mecklenburg about the succession of Charles, and finally the effects of the Thirty Years War.

He found the church conditions shattered by his predecessor Konrad Schliisselburg and left them in order to his successor Hector Mithobius . The basis of the church relations was the Mecklenburg church order ; a Ratzeburg church ordinance drafted by Peträus did not receive the approval of the administrator. In 1599 and 1620 Peter made extensive visitations . He arranged the financial situation of the congregations and regulated the supply of the pastors and for the first time also the parish widows. To enforce ecclesiastical discipline and against magic, vetches, boos and crystal vision , he issued generalia or common decrees . In 1622 Peträus was appointed assessor in the consistory as the spiritual court for the bishopric.

Since April 7, 1593 he was married to Katharina Wienken (also Wincken ) from Rostock. The childless couple left their considerable fortune to a scholarship fund as well as a foundation for the good of the church and the church servants , who received payments from them up until the 20th century. In Ratzeburg Cathedral , whose early Baroque furnishings with a new altar (1629) and epitaphs he was largely responsible for, he received an epitaph created by Gebhard Jürgen Titge in 1644 , which now hangs on the west wall of the north transept. Portraits of the couple hung in the cathedral provost house. In 1620, with funds from his Husum brothers, he donated a gallery for the Herrnburg village church by virtue of their vows that they had done for years .

A copy of an important chronicle has been preserved from his hand, the Lista episcoporum eccl (which was continued until 1574) . Raceburgensis et eorum facta (today in the main state archive in Schwerin ).

Works

  • Narratio de fundatione Eccl. cathedral. Raceburg. Rostock 1600 (dissertation)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Published by Heinrich Gebler: The church regulations of the Ratzeburg cathedral monastery. Ratzeburg: HHC Freystatḵy's Buchdruckerei 1894 (school program)
  4. ↑ Divination
  5. Jump up ↑ Prayer and Discussion
  6. ↑ Description and illustration in Krüger (Lit.), pp. 119f
  7. ↑ Fig. In Krüger (Lit.), p. 33
  8. ↑ Krüger (Lit.), p. 391
predecessor Office successor
Konrad Schluesselburg Superintendent of the Hochstift Ratzeburg
1598–1641 		Hector Mithobius
personal data
SURNAME Peträus, Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersen, Nils; Petraeus, Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, superintendent
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1569
PLACE OF BIRTH Husum
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1641
Place of death Ratzeburg