Ordained Book
The ordained book is a register in which the pastors or vicars, vespers, etc. ordained by the responsible ecclesiastical body ( spiritual ministry , superintendent ) are recorded. Often they are named at the same time as the place to which they were called.
Wittenberg Ordained Book
The Wittenberg Ordained Book is particularly extensive for the 16th century . It contains the list of all the clergy who were blessed to preach the gospel at the Reformation college. Volume I (1537–1560) contains in the edition of Buchwald 1976 consecutively numbered and three subsequent names, Volume II (1560–1572) 1261 consecutively numbered and six subsequent names. In Wittenberg, not only the pastors appointed for the service of the Electoral Saxon Church were ordained, but also the clergy who were requested and sent to other places and countries.
Concord Book
In some areas, such as Hamburg , Lübeck and the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg , the regional edition of the Konkordienbuch , which those to be ordained signed, took on this function.
meaning
The registers are a valuable resource for church history . In addition to prosopographical information, they are at the same time meaningful as a mass source for the ordination frequency with regard to the development of the church's administrative structure and in part about the population development of individual regions, since pastors were ordained depending on the existing parishioners. For the population development, however, church records are much more meaningful.
literature
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Georg Buchwald (Ed.): The Wittenberger Ordiniertenbuch.
- Volume 1: 1537-1560. Leipzig: Wigand 1894 ( digitized version ).
- Volume 2: 1560–1572: with corrections and additions for the years 1558–1568 from Paul Eber's notes. Leipzig: Wigand 1895. ( digitized version )
- Georg Buchwald, Heinrich Johannes Scheuffler: The clergy ordained in Wittenberg of the parishes of the current Kingdom of Saxony. In: Contributions to the Saxon church history. Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig, 1898, vol. 12, p. 101 ff. ( Digitized version ) and vol. 13, p. 1 ff. ( Digitized version )
- Friedrich Bachmann: The Mecklenburg people in the Wittenberger Ordiniertenbuch from 1537 to 1572. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology 96 (1932), pp. 197-206 ( digitized version )
- Otto Fischer: Brandenburger ordained books. In: Archives for clan research and all related areas 6 (1929), pp. 5–7, 87–93, 139–143, 176–179, 206–209.
- Otto Fischer: The third Brandenburg ordained book. In: Archives for clan research and all related areas 7 (1930), pp. 20-24, 104-107, 179-182, 213-216, 281-284.
- Otto Fischer: The Stendaler Ordiniertenbuch 1763–1791. [Leipzig]: [Central office f. German Person and Family history] 1939 (special print from: Familiengeschichtliche Blätter 37 (1939), Sp. 15–22, 65–70).
- Ernst Machholz: The Merseburg Ordiniertenbuch from 1666 to 1816. (Groitzsch: Reichardt) 1919.
- Ernst Machholz: The Magdeburger Ordiniertenbuch from 1665 to 1816. (Groitzsch: Reichardt) 1918 (special print from communications from the " Roland " association for the promotion of family, coat of arms and seal customer ).