Sebastian kitchen master

Sebastian Küchenmeister (also: Küchemeister, Kuchemeyster, Kirchemeyster, Archimagirus, Archimarus etc .; * around 1480 in Freiberg ; † before September 3, 1528 in Chemnitz ) was a Catholic theologian .

Life

Kitchen master came from a family that can be traced back to his birthplace in 1274. In the summer semester of 1498 he moved to the University of Leipzig and in the winter semester of 1499 completed the Baccalaureus of the seven liberal arts . In the winter semester of 1502 he moved to the University of Wittenberg and on February 2, 1504 acquired the academic degree of Magister of Artes liberales. With the achievement of the academic degree were connected lectures at the philosophical faculty. In the same year he was appointed head of the Wittenberg city school . A year later he resigned from his schoolmaster's position, became a member of the Senate of the Faculty of Philosophy and dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in the winter semester of 1505 , an office that he held in the summer semester of 1510 and in the winter semester of 1516.

In 1507 he became a ducal canon at the Wittenberg Castle Church and in 1505 received the professorship of the small logic of Petrus Hispanus after Johannes Duns Scotus . At the same time, he devoted himself to theology and, after gaining various baccalaureate titles, graduated on September 28, 1512 with the licentiate in theology. In the same year he took over the rectorate of the alma mater and was vice rector in 1519. Kitchen master, who was able to secure a not insignificant benefice in the course of his time at university in Wittenberg , did not agree with Martin Luther's reformatory ideas and procedures.

When Luther abolished this professorship as unnecessary in 1518, these tendencies intensified and he remained loyal to the scholastic doctrine as an opponent of Luther . After the Wittenberg movement, he went to Chemnitz. Since he no longer fulfilled his residence obligation in Wittenberg, his benefices were withdrawn in June 1523 and he was dismissed as a canon. In 1524 he lived in Freiberg, where he worked as a preacher at St. Peter's Church and where the supporters of the Reformation were extremely excited. On November 20, 1524, the pulpit was nailed up for him and attached to it a scale with a fox and cow tail. On the following Sunday the pulpit was decorated with ravens and the inscription "Pfaff, denit und sag dy worheit". So he could not stay in his hometown and went back to Chemnitz, where he died.

literature

• Nikolaus Müller : The Wittenberg Movement 1521 and 1522. The events in and around Wittenberg during Luther's stay in the Wartburg. Letters, files and similar personal details. Leipzig 2nd edition 1911
• Gottfried Wentz: The Collegiate Foundation of All Saints in Wittenberg. In: Germania Sacra - The dioceses of the Church Province of Magdeburg. The diocese of Brandenburg. Walter de Gruyter & Co, Berlin 1941, 3rd volume, 2nd part, pp. 118/19
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .