Valentin von Stojentin

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Valentin von Stojentin (* around 1485 in Darsow ; † 1528 or 1529 in Rome ) was a ducal councilor and castle captain in Pomerania .

Life

He came from the Pomeranian noble family von Stojentin . After a good academic background, he studied law and humanities at the universities of Greifswald and Frankfurt (Oder) . Since his studies in Frankfurt he had been friends with Ulrich von Hutten and had contact with leading humanists . After his promotion to Doctor of Laws Valentin resigned from Stojentin in Szczecin as a secretary at the service of the Duke Bogislaw X of Pomerania.

In the spring of 1511 he began a two-year study trip that took him through Germany and Switzerland to Italy. From 1514 to 1517 he stayed in Italy again. He accompanied Christoph von Pomerania , the natural son of Bogislaw X., for whose education he was responsible, to Bologna . There he continued his law studies. In 1514 he was elected procurator of the German nation. In 1516 he met again with Hutten at the University of Bologna .

At the beginning of 1517 he returned to Pomerania. In Szczecin he was appointed advisor and constant companion to the aging duke, from whom he was given the task of writing a genealogy of the Greifenhaus as well as a country history of Pomerania . Stojentin recommended the Duke to the later reformer Johannes Bugenhagen, who was then a teacher in Treptow at the Rega .

Valentin von Stojentin, who was open to the Reformation , acted as a moderator on Bogislaw X's policy towards Martin Luther's teaching . The fact that Stojentins and Jacob von Wobeser's influence in Pomerania did not take action against the reformers in Pomerania in 1521 after the return of the Duke and his council from the Diet in Worms paved the way for the peaceful spread of Protestantism . After Bogislaw X's death, Stojentin, Wobeser and Jobst von Dewitz pacified the emerging religious and political unrest in Pomerania.

Stojentin was appointed castle captain of Loitz and was entrusted by the Pomeranian dukes with diplomatic missions abroad. He died in Rome at the end of 1528 or beginning of 1529 during a trip, the purpose of which is unknown.

Valentin von Stojentin was married to Dorothea Glinken from a patrician family from Greifswald who set up a foundation for the benefit of the University of Greifswald after his death.

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personal data
SURNAME Stojentin, Valentin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ducal councilor and castle captain in Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH around 1485
PLACE OF BIRTH Darsow
DATE OF DEATH 1528 or 1529
Place of death Rome