Ulrich von Dinstedt

Ulrich von Dinstedt also: Dinestand, Dhinstet, Dinstehdt, Denstedt, Denstat, Denstaht, Denstadt, Denstadt etc. (* around 1460 in Tiefurt ; † around August 1525 in Eisfeld ) was a German lawyer, Catholic and Protestant theologian.

Life

As the son of Capar von Dinstedt auf Tiefurt, he came from a noble family based in Thuringia. His brother Michael von Dinstedt had been councilor and marshal of Duke Friedrich of Saxony . In the summer semester of 1473 he enrolled at the University of Erfurt , where he was a Baccalaureus in the fall of 1477 and transferred to the University of Ingolstadt on April 4, 1481 as a pleban from Orlamünde . Here he attended the lectures of Sixtus Tucher († 1507), conducted canonical studies at the University of Perugia and at the University of Rome , where he moved in the circle of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Orsini († February 22, 1503). After ten years of study, he settled in his Thuringian homeland. Since he has been benefiting from his benefices of the parish in Orlamünde (1473), the parish in Eisfeld (before 1499), in Hildburghausen and vicarages in Ober Weimar and at the Ottilien chapel on the Muppberg (near Neustadt an der Haide, today near Coburg) could live, he renounced his paternal inheritance in 1482.

In the summer of 1507 he went to Wittenberg as cantor of the Allerheiligenstift , as the parish of Eisfeld was incorporated there. He had also at the University of Wittenberg enrolled, the law school has been involved since 1507 in the lecture operation, was there on June 15, 1508 Licentiate of Rights and doctorate on 16 November 1508 to the doctor of canon law. On December 9, 1508, he was accepted into the Senate of the Law Faculty. From 1510 he was represented as a teacher and lived in Eisfeld. After the results of the Wittenberg movement had an impact on his parish area, he joined the evangelical camp.

He had a son Adolf from Katharina NN., With whom he was married. He must also have been in a relationship with a certain Elisabeth. Because in his will he considers his children Sigmund and Barbara, who were conceived with her. Because he was married, he should be seen as a representative of Protestant teaching in Eisfeld. He will therefore have played a major role in the introduction of the Reformation before Nikolaus Kindt the Elder (1490–1549) became superintendent there.

literature

• Heinz Scheible, Corinna Schneider: Melanchthon correspondence (MBW), Volume 11: People A-E . frommann-Holzboog Verlag, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 2003, ISBN 3-7728-2257-6 .
• Nikolaus Müller : The Wittenberg Movement 1521 and 1522 (continued) . In: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, Vol. 7 (1909/1910), pp. 233–293, here pp. 240–248.
• Gottfried Wentz : The dioceses of the church province of Magdeburg . Vol. 3: The Diocese of Brandenburg . de Gruyter, Berlin 1941, Part 2, pp. 122–123.
• Albert Greiner: History of the city and parish Neustadt (Duchy of Coburg) up to 1650 . Coburg 1905. pp. 215, 224.