Paul Lindenau

Paul Lindenau (* around 1489 in Chemnitz , † March 25, 1541 in Dresden ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Lindenau enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1505 and received his baccalaureate there in 1506 . In 1507 he entered the Benedictine monastery in Chemnitz . Under the influence of the Reformation , he left the monastery and went to Ehrenfriedersdorf . From there he worked as a preacher at the St. Marien Church in Zwickau , where he worked with Wolfgang Zeuner and Nikolaus Hausmann to win the city's monks for the Reformation movement.

To this end, the trio composed 26 sermons. From these, in 1524, the printed theses “Teaching and warning to the church in Zwickau with ugly articles rejected by the monastery people there” emerged. As a result of these activities, a dispute arose in Zwickau over the rights of the council in church matters. Since Lindenau had polemically and personally attacked the authorities of the city, he was unable to stay in Zwickau despite the efforts of Martin Luther . In 1529 he was released there.

After he had worked as a pastor in Elsterberg , Neumark and Auerbach , he went in 1537 as court and collegiate preacher to Heinrich von Sachsen in Freiberg . Here he got into a dispute with the superintendent Jacob Schenck about the validity of the law for Christians. This dispute came to an end when he followed his employer to Dresden. There he played a decisive role in the introduction of the Reformation and finally died there.

literature

• Heinrich Theodor Flathe :  Lindenau, Paul . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 688.
• Günther Wartenberg :  Lindenau, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 595 ( digitized version ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Johannes Cochläus	Court preacher in Dresden 1539–1541	Johann Weiss