Wilhelm Rivenus

Wilhelm Rivenus or Rutenius (* around 1505 in the Utrecht Monastery ; † October 7, 1555 in Lübeck ) was a German pedagogue during the Reformation and rector in Lübeck and Magdeburg.

Life

Little is known about his exact origin and training; it can be assumed that he was with Wilhelmus Hagnis Trajecten dioc, who was matriculated at the University of Wittenberg from the summer semester 1523 . is identical and latinized its name from Haag (= Bach) to Rivenus (from Latin rivus = Bach ) . On January 31, 1531, Guilielmi Ryveni Ryvenus, Traiectinus was here Magister der Artes liberales , and on April 6, 1531 he was accepted as a teacher at the philosophical faculty.

According to the Lübeck sources, after Hermann Bonnus , the founding rector of the Lübeck Katharineum , was appointed first superintendent , he was appointed to Lübeck as his successor at the end of 1531. However, according to the Wittenberg sources, he was still dean of the philosophical faculty in the winter semester 1533/34.

Apparently Rivenus went back to Wittenberg in 1543 and was again dean of the philosophical faculty in the summer semester of 1544. On Philipp Melanchthon's recommendation, Rivenus was appointed rector of the old town high school in Magdeburg in 1544 . However, the effects of the siege of the city in the Schmalkaldic War led to the school being completely dissolved. For this reason and worn down by the intrigues of his deputy Matthäus Judex, he resigned his position at Easter 1552 and went back to Lübeck, where his successor Matthias Brassanus had just died. He probably figured out the prospect of being reappointed rector of the Katharineum, but at most managed the position temporarily, because in November 1552 the Lübeck council appointed Petrus Vincentius as rector. Perhaps he represented Vincentius during his trip to England in 1553.

Rivenus then lived as a private citizen in Lübeck, where he died in 1555. His simple tombstone with a short Latin inscription, which Johann Henrich von Seelen still described, is said to have been in the Katharinenkirche in Lübeck , but according to Ernst Deecke in the vicinity , i.e. in the cloister of the Katharinenkloster belonging to the school . It was no longer detectable during the inventory of the grave monuments.

literature

• Johann Henrich von Seelen : Athenae Lubecenses. Volume 4, Lübeck 1722 ( digitized version ), p. 56
• H. Holstein: The old town high school in Magdeburg from 1524-1631. In: New Yearbooks for Philology and Education. Second Division 30 (1884), pp. 65-74, especially p. 67

Web links

• Publications by and about Wilhelm Rivenus in VD 16 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ So in VD16 and in the Magdeburg sources
2. ↑ So in the Lübeck sources
3. ^ Karl Eduard Förstemann: Album Academiae Vitebergensis. Leipzig 1841, p. 119, col. 1
4. ^ Helmar Junghans: Directory of the rectors, vice rectors, deans, professors and castle church preachers of Leucorea from the summer semester 1536 to the winter semester 1574/75. In: Irene Dingel , Günther Wartenberg: Georg Major (1502–1574). A theologian of the Wittenberg Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-374-02332-0
5. ↑ A possible resolution (which would be WP: TF here ) is provided by the discussion in Seelen: Athenae Lubencenses Volume IV on the order of the first rectors.
6. ↑ Athenae Lubencences , Volume 1. Lübeck 1719, p. 51
7. ^ Ernst Deecke: The Catharineum in Lübeck before 1800. A jubilation. Lübeck: Rohden 1843, p. 49
8. ↑ See Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg (1100–1600). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999 (Kieler historical studies; Volume 40), zugl .: Kiel, Univ., Diss., 1993 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , p. 852 (LÜKA * 62)

predecessor	Office	successor
Hermann Bonnus	Rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck 1531–1543	Matthias Brassanus