Volckmar Frobenius

Volckmar Frobenius (also Volgmarus Frobenius; * around 1490 in Großhettstedt , † around 1551/52 in Stadtilm ) was the reformer of Stadtilm near Erfurt.

Life

As early as 1516 he was mentioned as a pleban (= Catholic parish priest) in Großhettstedt in Thuringia. He later became provost (prior) of the Cistercian monastery Stadtilm in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. During the turmoil of the Reformation he remained officially Catholic, but sided with the rebellious peasants. When around 5000 to 8000 rebellious farmers camped in front of Stadtilm, the city opened the city gates for them and they were fed by the Cistercian monastery under the prior Frobenius. A few years later Frobenius left the monastery, but stayed in the city and did the preaching service ("the last prior of the monastery there, Froben, became a pastor", see Sigismund 1862, p. 183). He married a Jewish convert who was baptized in Ichtershausen in 1530, with Martin Luther as godfather, under the name "Christine".

In 1533 he declared himself open to the Reformation and since then has been the city's first Protestant pastor. In the same year the monastery was dissolved, but the Ilm Abbey was retained to finance students and the parish. First he officiated as a pastor in Großhettstedt and was introduced in 1543 as the first Lutheran pastor in Stadtilm. He sent his sons to Wittenberg at a very early age, which he financed in Luther's sense from the monastery capital of Ilm Abbey (1541 and 1542, at the age of probably just over 10 years, as was customary at the time) and from the foundation of the citizen Johann Holtheuer from Stadtilm; He financed at least one other son from a Feuchtwangen foundation, as the family apparently had connections in the Brandenburg-Ansbach region ( Franconia ). As pastor of Großhettstedt he himself received income from the monastery treasury of Ilm Monastery (1547/48 5 florins, 1548/49 again 5 florins, 1552/53 again).

family

He was the ancestor of the widely ramified Thuringian and Franconian family of civil servants and scholars, Frobenius . According to tradition, he was a younger brother of the well-known Basel book printer and publisher Johannes Frobenius from Hammelburg in Franconia (e.g. the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 8, 1878, p. 126, in the article about his grandson, the learned bookseller and publisher Georg Ludwig Frobenius in Hamburg; in the first Frobenius chronicle of 1709, however, this statement can still be recognized as a presumption where he is called the brother or brother-son of the Basel publisher, and in the second chronicle of 1742 it says, p. 79: "It may well be that Volckmar Frobenius was Johannes Frobenius' biological brother"). Two of his sons became pastors, the other four legal scholars, most of them in Franconia.

literature

• Christoff Jacob Frobenius: My, Christoff Jacob Frobenius, as well as my wife Anna, Magdalena, and children, their due, which was also thoroughly verified by my soldiers and dear forefathers. message (…) [Frobenius first chronicle, entries 1709 to 1755, 293 pages], manuscript (kept in the Hamburg State and University Library, signature Frobenius: Familiengeschichte Vol. I: CH I, 86, 1: 1)
• Heinrich Ludwig Frobenius: Family book [second Frobenius chronicle, written in Ansbach 1742–49], [Frobenius second chronicle, from the brother of the former], manuscript (kept in the Hamburg State and University Library, signature Frobenius: Familiengeschichte Bd. II: CH I, 86, 1: 2)
• Clericatus Ilmensis , kept in the Sondershausen State Library (No. 1624)
• S. Sigismund: Regional Studies of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , Part 2, Rudolstadt 1862, p. 183
• Friedrich Lorenz Hoffmann: The learned bookseller Georg Ludwig Frobenius in Hamburg , Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1867.
• Anton Freiherr von Froben: News about the von Froben family , Berlin 1874
• Otto Beneke:  Frobenius, Georg Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 126 f. (Side entry in the article about his grandson)
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstädtische Landeszeitung No. 281/1901 (on the invoice of the Ilm Abbey from 1541, 1547/48, 1548/49)
• Chronicle of Stadtilm , p. 5 of 33 (on Volkmar Frobenius, 1533)

Web links

• http://www.annefrobeen.de/Frobeen-Dateien/volkmar_frobenius_1490_bis_ca.htm