Reimar Kock

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Reimar Kock on the title of an early 17th century manuscript for the preacher Heinrich Santmann

Reimar Kock (* beginning of the 16th century in Wismar ; † June 16, 1569 in Lübeck ) was a theologian of the Reformation, who became important as a chronicler of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Kock was the son of a paternoster maker . His father died before 1518. In 1516 he enrolled in Rostock . In 1524 Kock became a Franciscan in Schwerin . A few years later he moved from the Franciscan monastery Schwerin to the Katharinenkloster Lübeck , both of which belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province .

When exactly Kock confessed to the Lutheran faith and left the monastery, which was secularized with the introduction of the Reformation in Lübeck in 1531 and converted into a school by Johannes Bugenhagen , is not documented. His appointment as chaplain at the Petrikirche in 1530 was due to his Reformation sentiments. In 1553, when the Petripastor Valentin Curtius became superintendent , Kock became the chief pastor of the Petrikirche and held this office until his death.

In 1532 Kock was present as a preacher in the Lübeck fleet, which supported the Danish King Frederick I against his deposed predecessor Christian II , on the Öresund near Copenhagen and during the fighting for the Akershus fortress in Norway. Under the mayor of Lübeck Jürgen Wullenweber he was off Copenhagen in 1533 and sailed to England under Marx Meyer . During the count's feud in 1534 he was again in Copenhagen and Malmö.

In 1550, Reimar Kock presented the Lübeck City Council with his three-volume chronicle of the city of Lübeck and the southern Baltic Sea region under the title Cronica of the most splendid stories and trade of the Kayserliken city of Lubeck, and he pretended that Reimarum Kock, preachers tho S. Peter darsülvest brought up the ultimate tho hope. Anno 1549. The first volume deals with the period from 980 to 1438, the second with the period up to 1499 and the third with the period up to 1549. The original of the chronicle has been lost, so that one has to fall back on the numerous copies. On a copy of the manuscript of his predecessor Detmar , he continued the chronicle by hand for the period from 1550 to 1565.

Kock's chronicle became the leading chronicle of post-Reformation historiography in Lübeck; from the end of the 16th to the third quarter of the 17th century it is the most frequently used and copied chronicle in the city.

After Georg Waitz , Kock is also the author of the detailed history of the Lübeck Church Reformation published by Johann Friedrich Petersen .

literature

Manuscripts

  • Cronica of the Keizerliken City of Lubeck dorch Reimarum Kock Preacher, signature Ms. Lub 2 ° 40 . In: digital.stadtbibliothek.luebeck.de. Retrieved November 26, 2015 . ,
  • Dat drüdde Parth of the Chroneken van der kaiserlicken city Lübeck and honorable pretexts, Dorch Reymarum Kock, pastors tho St. Peter in Lübeck. ( Digitized version of the Lübeck City Library, signature Ms. Lub. 2 ° 25 )
  • Dadt Drüdde part of the cronike of the keijserlichen Statt Lübeck unde Irer vorwantenn dorch RK - copy in a leather binding made for Paul Karckrinck ( Paul Kerkring ) in 1601 with renaissance decoration in gold and gilt , signature Ms. Lub. 2 ° 32 digitized
  • Reimar Kock's Lübeckische Chronick from 1550 to 1565 . Copy by Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff in 1823 ( Lübeck City Library , signature Ms. Lub 2 ° 34 )
  • Chronicle of Lübeck Part I , copy from the 18th century, signature Ms. Lub 2 ° 39 digitized
  • Chronica of the most distinguished stories and actions of the Imperial City of Lübeck. Copy from 1616 for the preacher Heinrich Santmann in two volumes, only the first of which has survived , signature Ms. Lub 2 ° 40a , digitized
  • The third part of the chronicles, the imperial freyen, and the holy Roman imperial statute of Lubeck. by the worthy, respectable and Wolgelernten, Mr. Reymarum Kock, pastor there at Sanct Peter ( Lübeck City Library , signature Ms. Lub 2 ° 44 )
  • Chronicle of Lübeck, Part III, 1500–1525 Copy from the beginning of the 17th century, signature Ms. Lub 2 ° 45.02 , digitized
  • The other book of the keyserlichen freyen Reichs instead of Lübeck's Cronickhen. Signature Ms. Lub 2 ° 46 , digitized
  • Copy of Reimar Kock's chronicle from 1485-1562 , signature Ms. Lub 2 ° 47 , digitized
  • Fragment from Reimar Kock's chronicle. , Signature Ms. Lub 2 ° 48 , digitized

expenditure

  • Johann Friedrich Petersen (the younger) : Detailed history of the Lübeck church reformation in the years 1529 to 1531: from the diary of an eyewitness and promoter of the Reformation. Lübeck: Rohden 1830
Digitized ; Digitized version (Harvard)

Secondary literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Möbius (lit.), p. 85
  3. ^ Georg Waitz : Lübeck under Jürgen Wullenwever. Volume 2, p. 409 ff.
  4. ↑ 1438 is the year of the abdication by King Erik VII (Denmark) after the Peace of Vordingborg (1435) .
  5. ^ Möbius (lit.), p. 86
  6. ^ Georg Waitz : Lübeck under Jürgen Wullenwever. Volume 1, Berlin: Weidmann 1855, p. 414

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personal data
SURNAME Kock, Reimar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, chronicler of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1569
Place of death Lübeck