Stephan Fridolin

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Stephan Fridolin (* around 1430 in Winnenden ; † August 17, 1498 ) was a German Franciscan .

Life

Fridolin joined the observant branch of the Franciscan order at an unknown time (before 1460) . From around 1460 to around 1475 he worked as a preacher at the Liebfrauenkirche in Bamberg. In 1481 he was a member of the Provincial Council, the governing body of the Order Province . In 1477 he became lecturer at the monastery in Mainz, and from 1479 he worked with a brief interruption - from 1487 to 1489 as a preacher in the Poor Clare monastery in Basel  - until his death in the Nuremberg monastery, where he also took over the spiritual care of the local Poor Clare monastery . At the instigation of the abbess Caritas Pirckheimer , he wrote down his sermons.

In 1491 Anton Koberger in Nuremberg published the edification book Schatzbehalter ( GW 10329), which is one of the most beautiful prints of the incunable period because of its numerous woodcuts from the workshop of Michael Wohlgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff . The theme is the suffering of Christ, which is viewed from a hundred different points of view. A special feature are the countless cross-references to the picture panels and other text passages, which suggests careful preliminary planning.

The theology of the Schatzbehalter edification and the pictorial program of the woodcuts it contains can already be found in a panel from 1470–1475, the so-called Bamberg panel , also known as the Capestrano panel . In the treasure chest, Fridolin refers to this picture that preceded the treasure chest and the content of which is now explained in more detail in the book of edification through pictures and text. It originally comes from the Franciscan monastery on the Schranne in Bamberg and is now in the Bamberg Historical Museum.

literature

  • Hermann Tüchle:  Fridolin, Stephan. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 440 ( digitized version ).
  • The treasure holder (facsimile). (= The printed sources of Western art; 28). Collegium Graphicum, Portland / Oregon 1972
  • Dietrich Schmidtke: Fridolin, Stephan . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . Volume 2. 2nd edition. Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007699-3 , Sp. 918-922.
  • Petra Seegets: Passion Theology and Passion Piety in the Late Middle Ages. The Nuremberg Franciscan Stephan Fridolin († 1498) between the monastery and the city . (= Late Middle Ages and Reformation; NR, 10). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-16-146862-7 (also: dissertation, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 1994/95)
    • Horst-Dieter Beyerstedt: Review of Petra Seegets: Passion Theology and Passion Piety in the Late Middle Ages. In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg (MVGN), Volume 88, 2001, p. 265 f. ( online )
  • Ruth Slenczka: Educational panels in late medieval churches . pictura & poesis, 1998
  • Johannes Madey:  Stephan, Fridolin. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 1467-1468.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Dominik Bartl: The treasure holder. Image reception options . Dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 2010 ( full text )
  • Dominik Bartl, Miriam Gepp-Labusiak: Der Mainzer Schatzbehalter A colored devotional book from 1491 Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft , Darmstadt, 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-24988-6

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Seegets: Passion Theology and Passion Piety in the Late Middle Ages. The Nuremberg Franciscan Stephan Fridolin († 1498) between the monastery and the city. (= Late Middle Ages and Reformation; NR, 10). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-16-146862-7 [1] , pp. 29f.35ff.
personal data
SURNAME Fridolin, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franciscan
DATE OF BIRTH around 1430
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnenden
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 1498