Simon Heins
Simon Heins also: Heyns, Bruck, Pontanus (* around 1483 in Brück , Electorate of Saxony ; † before September 25, 1523 in Wittenberg ) was a Catholic theologian.
Life
Simon from Brück was born as the son of the mayor, later mayor and agricultural citizen Georgius Heinse, in the rural town of Brück near Belzig . He was enrolled in the newly established University of Wittenberg in the winter semester of 1502 , where he became a Baccalaureus of the seven liberal arts at Pentecost 1504 . In the winter semester of 1506/07 he switched to the University of Frankfurt (Oder) for a short time and settled permanently in Wittenberg in 1507. Here he acquired a house on the Elsterende from the previous owner Peter Berkow, which passed to Philipp Melanchthon in 1520 .
On August 16, 1508 he acquired the academic degree of Magister des Artes Liberales and was admitted to the Senate of the Philosophical Faculty the following year. In 1510 he took over the professorship of the great logic of Aristotle after Thomas Aquinas , became the conventor of the university in 1512 and dean of the philosophical faculty in the summer semester of 1513 . He participated in the construction of the lecture hall of the new college. In 1515/16 he became the parish priest of the Wittenberg town church and on September 25, 1516 acquired the first theological degree of Baccalaureus biblicus .
Due to his poor health, he had to give up his professorship in logic at Pentecost 1518. In the turmoil of the Wittenberg movement , he took part alongside Andreas Bodenstein and Justus Jonas the Elder on December 25, 1521 in the issuing of the Lord's Supper in both forms and then laid down his beneficiaries . Heins, who also built the Wittenberg rectory, no longer actively participated in the pastoral service in the last days of his life due to his illness. Instead, Martin Luther had taken on this task for him.
The Saxon politician Gregor Brück , Chancellor of the Electorate of Saxony during the Reformation, was his younger brother.
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
- Heinz Scheible, Corinna Schneider: Melanchthon's correspondence (MBW) Volume 11: People AE. Frommann-Holzboog, 2004, ISBN 3772822576 , p. 223
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heins, Simon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heyns; Bruck; Pontanus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Catholic theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1483 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brück , Electorate of Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1523 |
| Place of death | Wittenberg |