Rosenfeld, Johannes

1504 - 1606  (102 years)

• Name	Rosenfeld, Johannes  [1, 2]
  Birth	1504	Heubach, Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Thüringen, Germany   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Education	1561	University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany   [2]
  	Graduated 1/2 of 1561 after 3 years of study.
  Life Event	Between 1566 and 1567	Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany   [2]
  	Substitute Lutheran Pastor
  Ordained	1566	Germany   [2]
  	right Day Simonis and Judae by Stössel
  Life Event	Between 1567 and 1606	Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany   [2]
  	Paster with branches in Grosheirath and Rossach
  Life Event	1569	Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany   [2]
  	Visitation: completely rude, unpaid, has declined Vict. not signed, she refuses
  Life Event	1578	Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany
  	Visitation: admonished to study more diligently
  Life Event	1583	Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany   [2]
  	Visitation: Has 6 children who can probably pray
  Death	31 Dec 1606	Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany   [2]
  Person ID	I34849	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Family ID

  F13817

  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Schade, Dorothea,   b. UNKNOWN, Germany d. DECEASED, Germany
  Children	1. Rosenfeld, Johannes,   b. 23 Apr 1582, Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany d. 21 Nov 1637, Bedheim, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany (Age 55 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F13809	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1504 - Heubach, Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Thüringen, Germany Education - Graduated 1/2 of 1561 after 3 years of study. - 1561 - University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany Life Event - Substitute Lutheran Pastor - Between 1566 and 1567 - Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany Ordained - right Day Simonis and Judae by Stössel - 1566 - Germany Life Event - Paster with branches in Grosheirath and Rossach - Between 1567 and 1606 - Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany Life Event - Visitation: completely rude, unpaid, has declined Vict. not signed, she refuses - 1569 - Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany Life Event - Visitation: admonished to study more diligently - 1578 - Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany Life Event - Visitation: Has 6 children who can probably pray - 1583 - Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany Death - 31 Dec 1606 - Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  “Vict.” is probably the Victimatio, the Latin word for the statement made by the victim against the offender.  It’s an archaic and very rare word.  It doesn’t show up in Google searches and it’s not in the Oxford Classical Latin Dictionary.  But, since the Reformers liked to use a lot of Latin words, it’s the only possible word that would fit the abbreviation in the context of the actions of both the Rev. Johannes Rosenfeld and his wife, Dorothea Schade. The key clue is in the Visitation of 1569.  It stated, in your words, that Johannes was “completely rude”.  His congregation probably found him so unpleasant that they wouldn’t pay him a decent salary.  ( In those days, it was cheaper to drive out the priests and take over their churches in the name of the Reformation, especially when the sovereign was Protestant.  In 1569, the sovereign of Scherneck was the Duke of Saxony, Johann Wilhelm, the uncle of our Johann Casimir.  The Duchy of Saxe-Coburg, including Scherneck, would not be created until 1572. )  Dorothea probably felt the same way about him, too, and complained to the Visitationers, who would have written down all her words into a Victimatio ( a combo of the Latin word for “victim” and the Latin suffix, —tio, used to denote “statement” ).  But she probably wanted only sympathetic ears, not a public airing of dirty laundry, so she would have been so mortified by the sight of her Victimatio that she would have refused to sign it.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1470] GERMANY: THÙRINGIA: Pfarrerbuch Book 7 Sachsen - Meiningen. Pfarrerbuch Book 7 Sachsen-Meiningen [S1469] GERMANY: BAYERN: Pfarrerbuch Book 9 Sachsen - Coburg. Pfarrerbuch Book 9 Sachsen-Coburg