Stephan Kempe

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Stephan Kempe (1717)

Stephan Kempe , also Stefan Kempe (* before 1521; † October 23, 1540 in Hamburg ) was a Lutheran theologian and reformer .

Life

Nothing has come down to us from Kempe's early days. You first meet him in 1521 when he came to Rostock to study in April . In Rostock he entered the Saxon Province of the Franciscan Order and lived in the St. Katharinen monastery . He is registered as a clergyman Stephanus de Kempis. In 1523 he was transferred to Hamburg's Maria Magdalenen Monastery as a preacher .

Kempe soon preached the Reformation doctrine of Martin Luther there . The majority of the citizens were so taken with him that they elected him to be their pastor at St. Katharinen in 1527 . Kempe now took off his habit. As a pastor, he must have been very conscientious. In 1528 he took part in the big disputation in which he argued with Johann Fritze from Lübeck against eight monks of the old doctrine. This conversation decided the church situation in Hamburg. Kempe wrote a report about it himself. Together with Johannes Bugenhagen he took part in the Flensburg disputation in 1529 . It meant that the former “Lutheran messenger” and later Anabaptist Melchior Hofmann had to leave Schleswig-Holstein.

Johannes Bugenhagen was commissioned to carry out the Reformation , which the Hamburg Council had decided . In a year's activity he wrote the church regulations for Hamburg.

When the situation in the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg was clarified around the same time and the council decided on March 28, 1529 to abolish the old church customs, Kempe was appointed to Lüneburg. Using the church ordinance of Hamburg, he worked out one for Lüneburg. After ten months he returned to Hamburg, where he wrote his Pröve book . Nothing is known about the further work of the reformer from Lüneburg.

A clinker brick statue on the facade of the Barmbeker Bugenhagen Church in Hamburg commemorates Kempe . The "Stephan-Kempe-Kirche", a community center of the Katharinenkirche in Hamburg-Hammerbrook , built in 1909 , was destroyed in the firestorm of Operation Gomorrah in July 1943 and never rebuilt.

Fonts

  • Up des Abbates van Sunte Michael tho Luenenborch vnd sines Proeue Esels Proeuebock Answer by Stephani Kempen Preacher of the Euangelij Christi tho Hamborch. With a preface by Johannes Bugenhagen. Hamburg: Georg Richolff d. J. 1531

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollment of Stephan Kempe in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Ursula Creutz: Bibliography of the former monasteries and monasteries in the area of ​​the diocese of Berlin, the episcopal office of Schwerin and adjacent areas. St. Benno Verlag Leipzig 1988 ISBN 3-7462-0163-2 pp. 423-424.
personal data
SURNAME Kempe, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kempe, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian and reformer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1521
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1540
Place of death Hamburg