Mauritius Ferber

Mauritius Ferber ( * 1471 in Gdansk, † July 1, 1537 in Salvation Mountain ) was a Catholic theologian and Bishop of Warmia, and contributed considerably to the Warmia in contrast to surrounding Prussian territories remained Catholic.

Life

Ferber came from a retracted from Westphalia to the Hanseatic city of Danzig patrician family, his father Johann Ferber ( † 1501) and his brother Eberhard Ferber were Danziger mayor. Mauritius Ferber graduated from extended stays abroad, first in England, then for many years in Italy. In domestic Danzig in 1498 it caused a family feud to an engagement with Anna Pilemann, which spread to the entire patriciate of Danzig and the papal court employed. In 1507 Eberhard mediated reconciliation, while Mauritius entered into holy orders, and soon got several benefices. He was papal chamberlain, notary, canon in Warmia, Lübeck, Reval and Dorpat, pastor of Mühlbanz of Dirschau, 1512 by St. Peter in Danzig, and in 1514 chief pastor of Gdansk to St. Mary. On September 3, 1515 he received his doctorate in Siena to the doctor of both laws.

Through his brother's 1520 overthrow, he also had to leave Gdansk. The King of Poland nominated him in January 1523 the Prince-Bishopric of Warmia, whose administration he still took over in the same year. In the peace negotiations in Krakow in 1525 he defended his diocese against exempte Säkularisationswünsche the new Duke of Prussia, and the King of Poland. He managed to bring the diocese after his predecessor's administration, and the consequences of the last war back to prosperity. With zeal he caused Regulations against the Protestant doctrine, which had the desired effect everywhere except in Elbing. Since he was affected by a stroke since 1531, a coadjutor was sought, but this was with John Dantiscus found until shortly before his death in 1537.