Wolfgang Volprecht
Wolfgang Volprecht († 1528 ) was the last prior of the Augustinian monastery in Nuremberg and a German reformer .
Around 1507 he studied as an Augustinian hermit at the University of Ingolstadt .
From 1521 he was mentioned as prior of the Augustinian monastery in Nuremberg. This monastery supported the Reformation early on . As early as Easter 1523, Volprecht handed the lay chalice to the Eucharist . In May 1524 he read Holy Mass in German . This led to a conflict with Bishop Weigand von Redwitz and on September 12, 1524 to a questioning of Volprecht and some Nuremberg provosts in Bamberg for disregarding the Catholic liturgy . After the interviewees insisted on their point of view, the Bamberg bishop pronounced the excommunication and forbade them to continue their church functions.
On August 13, 1524 Volprecht offered the city council of Nuremberg to hand over the monastery in exchange for supplies. In March 1525 he appeared for the Lutherans in the Nuremberg Religious Discussion . In the same year the Augustinian monastery was handed over to the city council and Volprecht became pastor of the Holy Spirit Church .
In Gostenhof , Volprechtstrasse is named after him.
literature
- Andreas Gößner: Volprecht, Wolfgang . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( complete edition online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Flachenecker: Germania Sacra, New Volume 38 - The Exemte Diocese of Bamberg - The Bishop Row from 1522 to 1693 . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-016644-5 , p. 124 ( persondatenbank.germania-sacra.de [PDF]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Volprecht, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Volprecht, Wolfgangus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian and reformer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1528 |