Peter Gercken

Peter Gercken , also Petrus Gerken , Gerkens (* probably in Hagenow ; † April 10, 1545 in Lübeck ) was a German cleric, secretary of the Hansekontor in Bergen and canon.

Life

Peter Gercken was a younger brother of Lübeck councilor Joachim Gercken , who belonged to the Lübeck mountain drivers corporation and was appointed mayor of the city in the Lübeck council in 1531 . Peter Gercken received his bachelor's degree from the University of Rostock in the winter semester of 1519/1520 . He was a master and cleric of the Schwerin diocese .

In 1530 he was the owner of a vicarie at the Marienkirche . From 1534 to 1537 Peter Gercken was secretary to the mountain drivers, like his tragically murdered nephew Peter Kock († 1526) before . In the meantime the office of secretary was vacant. As a result of the turmoil of the Count feud and the Wullenwever period , he traveled (in vain) as a representative of the Bergen office to the (canceled) Danish Imperial Council in 1534, on which the king's election was scheduled, and in 1535 to the Hanseatic Day in Lüneburg . His prebend at the Marienkirche in Lübeck was interest-free until 1537. His brother paid interest in 1538, so that he should have left the office in 1538. In the Lübeck mountain drivers' book of privileges, there are several copies of documents certified by him in which he describes himself as a cleric of the Ratzeburg diocese . His successor as secretary in Bergen was Master Christian Heyster in 1538 .

In 1535 he owned a small prebende at Lübeck Cathedral . In 1536 he received the possession of the option of the great prebend of Franciscus Grambeke and thus became canon . He resided from 1540 until his death. According to the figure grave slab documented by Jacob von Melle , but not preserved, Peter Gercken was buried as canon of the Lübeck cathedral chapter in Lübeck cathedral. His preamble went to Vicco Meineke.

literature

• Friedrich Bruns : The secretaries of the German office in Bergen , in: Det Hanseatiske Museums Skriften , Volume 13, Bergen 1939, p. 46/47
• Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100–1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, pp. 699–700 (LÜDO * 295) ISBN 3-7995-5940-X
• Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the canons. In: Ders .: Bishop and Cathedral Chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, Principality and Region 1160–1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 352 (No. 42)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dates of death according to grave slab
2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
3. ↑ Probably around 1527 at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) , there designated in the register as "magistrandus"; see. Ernst Friedländer (ed.), Georg Liebe, Emil Thenner: Older university matriculations . I. University of Frankfurt a. O. , first volume (1506–1648), S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1887
4. ↑ Wolfgang Prange : Vicariates and Vicars in Lübeck up to the Reformation . Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2003, p. 141; Gustav Schaumann, Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 213 ( digitized version )