Theodoricus Smedecken

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Theodoricus Smedecken , also Dietrich Schmidecke (* around 1480 in Goslar (?); Proven until 1556 there) was first a chaplain and later a judge, lawyer and councilor (?) In Goslar. He translated Martin Luther's writings into Low German .

Life

Nothing is known about the family origins and youth of Smedecken. He studied at the University of Leipzig from the summer semester of 1499, where he acquired the academic degree of a baccalaureus in 1502 and (after having worked in the meantime) took the master’s examination in December 1520 .

Professionally, he initially worked as a chaplain at the St. Jakobi Church in Goslar. In 1512 he was involved in a dispute between the local pastor Johannes Hardt († 1545) and the Hildesheim bishop. He and Hardt were briefly excommunicated by the Hildesheim bishop, but were reinstated in their offices as early as 1513 after an appeal by the pastor to the Pope. In the years 1518 and 1523 there were renewed conflicts. In 1524 he had to renounce Lutheran heresy and withdrew from his church functions.

After a temporary stay in Magdeburg, where he got married, Smedecken probably returned to Goslar. There he was in 1533 as secretary of the representatives of Braunschweig and Goslar in the Schmalkalden Bundestag. In addition to this brief appearance in urban policy matters, Smedecken was probably active in legal matters since the 1530s. He worked as a judge and member of the municipal court in private matters and as a lawyer in Goslar. He may also have been a councilor .

Act

Smedecken's significance in the history of the Reformation is based on his translations of Martin Luther's writings into Low German. His translation of Luther's “Prayer Book” was printed in 1523 by Melchior Lotter the Younger in Wittenberg, who ran a branch of his father's printing house, Melchior Lotter the Elder . The naming of the translator Smedecken in the printed matter is described as "quite unique" for the time. In addition to the little prayer book, Smedecken possibly also translated the Luther edition of the “New Testament” into Low German.

Smedecken is one of the "notable figures in the history of the church and the intellectual history of Goslar". The ostfälische dialect got through it an "important support function for the Reformation." Smedecken's work as a translator thus contributed to the spread of the Reformation in Lower Germany.

Fonts

  • A Bedebok and Lesebok , Melchior Lotter d. J., Wittenberg 1523 (Low German translation of Martin Luther's "A little prayer book of the 10 Commandments, Faith, Our Father and the Ave Marias", 1522)
  • uncertain: Dath Nyge Testament tho dude , Melchior Lotter d. J., Wittenberg 1523 (Low German translation of Martin Luther's translation of the "New Testament")

literature

  • Martin Brecht : Theodoricus Smedecken, the Reformation in Goslar and the translation of the Luther Testament into Low German . In: Hansgeorg Engelke (Ed.): Goslar from the Reformation to the Revolution . Verlag für Regionalgeschichte 2005, ISBN 3-89534-553-9 , pp. 9-26
  • Martin Brecht, Robert Peters: Theodor Smedeckens Low German translation of Luther's New Testament . In: Lutherjahrbuch 72, year 2005. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, pp. 49–76
  • Dieter Lent : Smedecken, Theodoricus (also Schmidecke, Dietrich) . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 655 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Martin Brecht, Robert Peters: Theodor Smedeckens Low German translation of Luther's New Testament . In: Lutherjahrbuch 72, year 2005. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, p. 52
  2. ↑ Cf. Martin Brecht, Robert Peters: Theodor Smedeckens Low German translation of Luther's New Testament . In: Lutherjahrbuch 72, year 2005. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, pp. 54/55, 58
  3. ↑ Cf. Martin Brecht, Robert Peters: Theodor Smedeckens Low German translation of Luther's New Testament . In: Lutherjahrbuch 72, year 2005. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, p. 57 f.
  4. ↑ Cf. Martin Brecht, Robert Peters: Theodor Smedeckens Low German translation of Luther's New Testament . In: Lutherjahrbuch 72, year 2005. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, pp. 60, 64 ff.
  5. ↑ Cf. Martin Brecht, Robert Peters: Theodor Smedeckens Low German translation of Luther's New Testament . In: Lutherjahrbuch 72, year 2005. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, p. 52
  6. ↑ See the linguistic study of the relationship between “Bedebok” and the Low German Luther translations of 1523 and 1525 in Martin Brecht, Robert Peters: Theodor Smedeckens Low German translation of Luther's New Testament . In: Lutherjahrbuch 72, year 2005. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, pp. 65–76
  7. ↑ Cf. Martin Brecht, Robert Peters: Theodor Smedeckens Low German translation of Luther's New Testament . In: Lutherjahrbuch 72, year 2005. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, p. 76.
  8. ↑ Cf. Dieter Lent: Smedecken, Theodoricus (also Schmidecke, Dietrich) . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, p. 656
personal data
SURNAME Smedecken, Theodoricus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smedecken, Theodor; Smedecke, Dietrich; Schmidecke, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator of Martin Luther's writings into Low German
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Goslar
DATE OF DEATH after 1556
Place of death uncertain: Goslar