Wolfgang Redorfer

Wolfgang Redorfer († after 1552) was electoral councilor in Brandenburg , rector of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder and provost of Stendal , Cölln and Bernau .

Life

Origin, education and first activities

Wolfgang Redorfer came from Herzogenrath in the Duchy of Limburg (or Herzogenaurach in Franconia ?). In 1488 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig , where he was awarded a baccalaureate in the liberal arts in 1491/92 . In 1495 he was secretary to Bishop Dietrich von Lebus . In 1504 he was mentioned as the owner of the altar to the Holy Cross in St. Mary's Church in Frankfurt. In 1506 he received his master's degree from the University of Frankfurt. At that time he was canon in Lebus.

Rector, Councilor and Provost

In 1513 he became rector of the University of Frankfurt. In 1514 he wrote a liturgy for the cathedral monastery Lebus / Fürstenwalde. Around 1520/23 Redorfer wrote a pamphlet against Reformation theology, and in 1524 another. In 1525 he wrote a land register for the Ruppin district . In that year he became provost of the cathedral monastery St. Nikolai in Stendal and was designated a doctor of both rights.

In the following years Redorfer appeared more often as a lawyer in legal decisions for the Electors of Brandenburg and as a witness in their documents. In 1530 he accompanied Elector Joachim I to the Reichstag in Augsburg , where he and Konrad Wimpina and others wrote a counterparty against the Confessio Augustana of the Wittenberg reformers. In 1532 he accompanied Bishop Georg von Lebus to the Reichstag in Nuremberg . In 1536 Redorfer became provost of the Collegiate Monastery of Cölln and in 1538 provost of Bernau.

Canon in Havelberg and Lebus

With the introduction of the Reformation in the Mark Brandenburg, Redorfer lost his offices from 1539. In 1542 he became canon in Havelberg, but refused to be elected dean of the cathedral in 1544. In 1548 he was mentioned as a senior in the cathedral monastery of Fürstenwalde (Lebus), which remained Catholic, and in 1539 as archdeacon . In 1540 Redorfer was elected the new bishop of Lebus , but could not take up the office because Elector Joachim II refused to give his consent. In 1552 he resigned from his office as canon in Havelberg.

The year of his death is unknown. (The year 1559 is only a guess by Wohlbrück.)

Fonts

• Viaticum Lubucense , [Frankfurt] 1514, liturgy for the cathedral monastery Lebus-Fürstenwalde
• Wolfgang Redörffer: ERtzney Püchlein Uon den Fruits, Newen Ewangelischen Leben, Lere, and took Czu Wittenbergk , Franckfurt, Hans Hanaw, 1523, ( digitized )
• From the H. Common Christl. Church c. the Lutheran Ketzerey , Frankfurt a. Cit., 1524 [ From the Holy Common Christian Church versus the Lutheran Heresy ]
• Land book for the county of Ruppin, 1525
• Wolffgang Rehdorffer: The suspect excerpt from papal rights, the decree and decretals, In the articles the unreliable word of God and the gospel should be in accordance with. [Augsburg, Weißenhorn] 1530, writing against the Confessio Augustana

literature

• Suse Andresen: On a princely order: The learned councilors of the Electors of Brandenburg from the House of Hohenzollern in the 15th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017. P. 502f.
• Michael Höhle: University and Reformation: the University of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1506 to 1550. (= Bonn contributions to church history, volume 25.) Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2002. pp. 179–181
• Michael Höhle: Three anti-reformatory pamphlets by the Fürstenwalder Canon Wolfgang Redorffer. In: Wichmann yearbook of the Berlin Diocesan History Association. New episode, volume 5. 1998/99. Pp. 77-96.
• Sigmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück : History of the former diocese of Lebus and the country with the same name . Berlin 1829. pp. 376-380.

Remarks

1. ↑ Kugler-Simmerl: Bishop, cathedral chapter and monasteries in the diocese of Havelberg 1522-1598. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2003. pp. 230-232.
2. ↑ Wohlbrück, op. a. O. derived it from the statement that Redorfer died in 1539,