Heyno Gottschalk

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Heyno Gottschalk († 1541 in

Benedictine abbey of Oldenstadt. 1523 he became Diffinitor of the Bursfelde Congregation. He was also reader of Martin Luther's writings. Luther wrote a letter to him 1528 and encouraged him to stay in monastery. Abbot Heino remained a Lutheran monk to the end of his life, although the Duke seized the monastery's property.[1]

References

  1. ^ Dorothea Wendebourg: Luther on Monasticism, s. 327-355. The Pastoral Luther. Essays on Martin Luther's Practical Theology. Timothy J. Wengert (ed.). Lutheran Quarterly Books. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2009. Published also in Lutheran Quarterly 19 (2005): 125-52