Stephan Molitor (Gernrode)

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Stephan Molitor († around 1555 / 76 was) the first Lutheran pastor and Superintendent of Gernrode in the resin.

Life

Molitor was first mentioned in 1511 as a deacon for the Gernrode canonical monastery . In 1519 Abbess Elisabeth von Weida sent him to study in the Reformation Wittenberg . In 1521 Molitor returned to Gernrode. From 1525 the draft for a service order based on the Reformation model has been preserved, the extent to which it was implemented is not known. Stephan Molitor was one of the first clergy to get married.

Since 1528 he appeared several times as a notary for the abbess in documents. In 1533 a new elementary school was mentioned for the first time, which was probably opened by the new abbess Anna von Plauen following suggestions from Molitor and her predecessor. In that year the collegiate church was also converted into a parish church for the townspeople.

The first church visitation took place in 1545 under Stephan Molitor, who was meanwhile superintendent. The year of his death is unknown. Around 1577 the abbess Sibylla von Anhalt enfeoffed his widow with a piece of farmland.

Surname

Molitor is the Latinized form of Müller , he was also sometimes called Stephanus Mylius , which is a Graecized form. These types of name changes were common in the 16th century.

literature

  • Franke: Elisabeth von Weida and Wildenfels, abbess of the free secular monastery of Gernrode. 1505–1532 In: Communications from the Association for Anhalt History and Antiquity . 1899. pp. 323-325.
  • Hans Hartung: On the past of Gernrode . Carl Mittag, Gernrode 1912. pp. 68–72.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notary Stefan Molitor German Digital Library
  2. ^ In Johann Christoph Beckmann : Accessiones Historiae Anhaltinae. Zerbst 1716. pp. 69, 71f.
personal data
SURNAME Molitor, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Molitor, Stefan; Molitor, Stephanus; Mylius, Stephanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first Protestant pastor and superintendent in Gernrode
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: between 1555 and 1576