Valentin Leucht
Valentin Leucht , also Valentin Leuchtius (* around 1550 in Hollstadt , Lower Franconia ; † July 1, 1619 in Frankfurt am Main ), was a Catholic priest, theologian , clerical book author, imperial court count and imperial book commissioner .
Live and act
Leucht was of bourgeois origin and came from Hollstadt in Lower Franconia. Since he also appears as Valentin Leucht von Falkenberg , Falkenberg / Lower Franconia is sometimes mentioned as the place of birth. He received his first training in the Cistercian monastery in Bildhausen and in the Jesuit college in Würzburg . Then he probably studied in Mainz and obtained a doctorate in theology.
In 1576 Valentin Leucht was ordained a priest by the Würzburg auxiliary bishop Anton Resch . Afterwards he worked as a pedagogue in the Benedictine monastery Neustadt am Main . In 1578 he was appointed Catholic pastor in Bernstadt (Upper Lusatia) , from where, however, the Protestants expelled him. From 1582 he worked as a pastor at the Severikirche Erfurt , since 1584 he was pastor and dean in Neustadt an der Saale .
In 1589 Valentin Leucht became pastor, preacher and canon , in 1590 also cantor and in 1612 scholaster at St. Bartholomew's monastery in Frankfurt am Main . In 1594 he received the title of Apostolic Protonotary and Imperial Count Palatine.
From 1597 the priest acted as papal and imperial book commissioner in Frankfurt, began in 1606 with the publication of Catholic catalogs for the book fair and also obtained bans on individual publications. During the civil unrest in 1612-14 , he vigorously represented Catholic interests. In addition to smaller polemical writings (also under the pseudonym "Theodor Cygnaeus" ), including against the Lutheran theologian Johannes Winckelmann in 1604 , Leucht wrote a number of popular edification books and collections of examples which later served Martin von Cochem as a model and source for his own works. The Frankfurt and later Mainz book printer Balthasar Lipp († 1623) was on friendly terms with Valentin Leucht and was imprisoned in 1598 because he had printed one of his books without the permission of the Frankfurt Council. The Frankfurt music publisher Nikolaus Stein was also friends with him.
Valentin Leucht died in Frankfurt in 1619, according to other sources in Mainz.
literature
- Anton Ph. Brück : Leucht, Valentin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 368 ( digitized version ).
- Wolfgang Brückner : The Imperial Book Commissioner Valentin Leucht: Life and literary work. In: Archives for the history of the book industry . Vol. 3, Part 1, 1960, pp. 97-180.
- Franz Falk : A forgotten, fertile writer of the 16th and 17th centuries. Century: Valentin Leucht. In: The Catholic. Journal of Catholic Science and Church Life. 3rd episode, vol. 28 (1903), pp. 216–244 ( digitized version ).
- Martin Hille: Providentia Dei, Empire and Church: Worldview and Mood Profile of Old Believer Chroniclers 1517–1618. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-36074-3 , pp. 207 f. and in several other places ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Wilhelm Haefs: Censorship in the Century of Enlightenment: History, Theory, Practice. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89244-809-9 , pp. 87 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Resch in Würzburg Wiki
- ^ Günter Richter: "Lipp, Balthasar". In: New German Biography. Volume 14, 1985, p. 647. (Digitalscan)
- ↑ Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area: based on the work of the same name by Josef Benzing. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05450-8 , p. 245 and 596. (digital scan)
- ↑ Linda Maria Koldau: Women-Music-Culture: a manual on the German-speaking area of the early modern period. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-24505-4 , p. 536 (digital scan of Nikolaus Stein)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leucht, Valentin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leuchtius, Valentin; Leucht von Falkenberg, Valentin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Catholic priest, theologian and author, Imperial Count Palatinate |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1550 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hollstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1619 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |