Ambrosius Pelargus
Ambrose Pelargus OP ( born Ambrose stork or Storgk ) (c. 1493/94 in Nidda, † July 5, 1561 in Trier ) was a Dominican theologian and controversial.
About his origins and youth nothing is known, not even when he entered the Dominican convent in Frankfurt. In the Heidelberg Universitätsmatrikeln there is an entry dated 5 March 1519 Fr Ambrose Stork ex Conventu Franckfurdensi Ordinis predicatorum. Since in Cologne in 1524, he wrote a preface to John Dieterich Bergers polemic De votis monasticis iudicium, he used the name Graecized Pelargus.
From 1525/26 he studied theology in Basel and from 1529 in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he in 1533 for Doctor of Divinity. doctorate. He had published several pamphlets on the Eucharist doctrine against the Reformers Zwingli and Oecolampadius. From 1529 he quarreled with the refugees from Freiburg Erasmus of Rotterdam, but was friendly after mediation by Ludwig Baer in 1533 with this. In 1539 he published an anthology of his controversial writings and correspondence with Erasmus.
1534 appointed the Archbishop of Trier Johann III. of Metzenhausen († 1540) Ambrose stork teacher of theology at the University of Trier, and in 1540 took part on this Hagenauer colloquy. On July 13, 1545, his successor, John IV Ludwig von Hagen Pelargus appointed for the first Trier cathedral preacher. In 1546 he was sent to the Archbishop as procurator to the Council of Trent, where he worked mainly on the Decree on the Eucharist and on May 10, gave a great speech. He pulled, and as representatives of Cologne, go to Bologna, but where he incurred the displeasure of the emperor and his Procuratie was withdrawn on 23 August 1547. In 1551 he accompanied the archbishop back to Trent. Well, he worked on the Decrees on penance, holy oils, and priesthood.
After his return in 1552 he fell ill and was unable to continue his teaching career. In 1561 he gave, as dean of the theological faculty, and the Rector of the University, John Houst, licensed to teach philosophy and humanities at the Jesuit. He was buried in the (former) Dominican monastery in Trier.