Electors of Saxony Holy Roman Emperors Building Literature Theater Liturgies Hymnals Monuments Calendrical commemoration Johann Ruchrat von Wesel (died 1481) was a German Scholastic theologian.
[3] Erfurt was in his day the headquarters of a humanism which was both devout and opposed to the realist metaphysics and the Thomist theology which prevailed in the universities of Cologne and Heidelberg.
In 1460 he was appointed preacher at Mainz, in 1462 at Worms, and in 1479, when an old and worn-out man, he was brought before the Dominican inquisitor Gerhard Elten of Cologne.
He seems, however, to have protested against certain medieval ecclesiastical ideas which he held to be excrescences erroneously grafted on Christian faith and practice.
His tract on Indulgences is published in Walch's Monumenta Medii Aevi, volume i., while a report of his trial is given in Ortwin's Fasciculus rerum expetendarum et fugiendarum (ed.