Hans Pfistermeyer

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Hans Pfistermeyer (* before 1500 in the Aarau area; † 1548 in Aarau ) was a preacher of early Swiss Anabaptism . After his revocation, he took part in disputations with representatives of the Anabaptist movement on the Protestant-Reformed side.

Life

The baker (= " Pfister ") Hans Pfistermeyer headed a reading group in Aargau . In 1524 he received official permission for this, but on the condition that the meetings only take place in his house in front of the gate in Aarau. Public Bible readings in the streets were forbidden. During his absence from summer 1525 to spring 1527, Pfistermeyer's reading group was supervised by Niklaus Guldin from St. Gallen and finally constituted as an Anabaptist congregation.

Before 1531

Schleitheim article (printed in 1550)
Title page of
the printed minutes of the Zofingen Anabaptist disputation (1532), in which Pfistermeyer participated on the Reformed side

In the summer of 1525 Hans Pfistermeyer (together with Heini Seiler ) was baptized by Niklaus Guldin in Zollikon . Because of this act of baptism, which from the perspective of the traditional church was a rebaptism , Hans Pfistermeyer was banned from the Bernese territory in January 1626 . He was forbidden to return under threat of severe punishment.

Pfistemeyer worked as an Anabaptist missionary in Therwil in the Basel area from the spring of 1526 ; later he worked in the Solothurn Bailiwick of Gösgen, where by sechtzig wiber and innocent by sechtzig man, young and old, healthy syent . He was closely connected with the Zurich Anabaptist movement and joined the Schleitheimer Articles , the first Anabaptist confession formulated in 1527 . It consisted of seven articles, including those dealing with separating the church from the world and denying the oath.

Hans Pfistermeyer became one of the most successful preachers of early Swiss Anabaptism and developed extensive teaching activities in the Central Plateau and Northwestern Switzerland , but was often captured and experienced numerous expulsions.

On January 22, 1528 there was a disputation between Huldrych Zwingli and other theologians and on the part of the 22 Anabaptists who were captured, among others with Ulrich Ißler von Bitsch from Basel , Georg Blaurock from Chur , Hans Seckler from Basel, Hans Töblinger from Freiburg im Uechtland , Thomas Mahler from Meerstatt in Franconia , Heini Seiler, a hat maker from Aarau and Hans Pfistermeyer took part. With the exception of Hans Pfistermeyer, all others were expelled from the country; Pfistermeyer, however, repented and was allowed to stay there as a Bernese resident. In June 1529, however, he was again in prison in Bern, but was released and went to Freiamt , where he had numerous followers.

1531 and later

After a discussion in Bremgarten with Heinrich Bullinger in January 1531 about interest, Heinrich Bullinger published a book About the impudent Fräfel, angry confusion and the unwarranted emptying of the self-sent rebukes: four conversation books, caution about the folds / a good report about interest; Ouch a beautiful underwysung of tenacious people , which captured the Anabaptist being as a whole and tried to refute it in its individual teachings. In March 1531, at Bern's insistence, Pfistermeyer was arrested again in his new area of ​​activity and brought to Bern. There he was given the opportunity to take part in a disputation with Berchtold Haller and some of his colleagues. These included, among other things, Kaspar Mega Santander . Pfistermeyer lost the dispute, bowed to pressure from the authorities and finally withdrew. The authorities hoped for further success in combating Anabaptism and published the printed minutes of the meeting.

In the period that followed, Hans Pfistermeyer took part in conversations with the Anabaptists on the Reformed side, including in 1532 during the Zofingen Anabaptist disputation, in which Berchtold Haller , Sebastian Hofmeister and Kaspar Megander , as well as he and the former Anabaptist Andreas Rappenstein , faced 23 Anabaptists under Martin Less (called Linggi) (around 1500–1525) from Schaffhausen participated. The conversation lasted ten days and was comparatively cordial. The pastors called the Anabaptist leaders brothers . In between there were some points of agreement. The Anabaptists declared themselves victorious, and the council and predicants wanted to leave the judgment to the reader of the printed record. Indeed, the conversation revived the Anabaptists, prompting the council to take more severe measures against the Anabaptists. Pfistermeyer also took part in an Anabaptist disputation in Bern in 1538, but without commenting on his earlier beliefs.

Hans Pfistermeyer was married. He was listed in the Aarau tax register as a house owner for the years 1527 and 1528. In the years 1529 and 1530, in which Pfistermeyer was particularly active as an Anabaptist teacher, the tax register records his wife as the house owner. After he had turned away from Anabaptism in 1531, he became homeowner again. His name appears on the list until 1548. After that, Pfistermeyer's wife can be found there again. She remained in the tax register until her death in 1554.

literature

  • Martin Haas; Leonhard von Muralt; Walter Schmid: Three Anabaptist Talks: Conversation of the Bernese preachers with the Aarau Anabaptist Pfistermeyer, April 19-21, 1531 in Bern; Conversation between the Bernese preachers and the Anabaptists, held from July 1st to 9th, 1532 at Zofingen in Aargau; Conversation between the Bernese preachers and the Anabaptists, held from March 11th to 17th, 1538 in Bern . Zurich: Theological Publishing House, 1974.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reformation stories Aarau - Reformed regional church Aargau. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  2. ^ Leonhard von Muralt, Martin Haas: Sources for the history of the Anabaptists in Switzerland . Theological Verlag Zürich, 1952, ISBN 978-3-290-17319-7 ( google.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Gösgen. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  4. ^ Martin Haas: Profiles of early Anabaptism in the Bern area, Solothurn, Aargau. In: Zwingliana XXXVI. 2009, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Emidio Campi, Amy Nelson Burnett, Martin Ernst Hirzel, Frank Mathwig: The Swiss Reformation: A manual . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2017, ISBN 978-3-290-17887-1 ( google.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Emidio Campi, Amy Nelson Burnett, Martin Ernst Hirzel, Frank Mathwig: The Swiss Reformation: A manual . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2017, ISBN 978-3-290-17887-1 ( google.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Stories about the Reformation in Aargau from the period 1500–1570. November 2016, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Cornelius Bergmann: The Anabaptist Movement in the Canton of Zurich until 1660. 1878, accessed on April 13, 2020 .
  9. ↑ ZB Zurich / About the impudent Fräfel, angry confusion and the unwarranted emptying of the self-sent rebels . 1531 ( e-rara.ch [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Marion Hollerbach: The religious conversation as a means of denominational and political debate in Germany in the 16th century . Lang, 1982, ISBN 978-3-8204-7015-4 ( google.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  11. ↑ Johann Jacob Hottinger: Historia der Reformation in der Eidgnossschektiven: or a basic description of how the improvement of the church system in the Evangelical Confederation and various allied countries and places has been preserved up to our times . In the Bodmerische Truckerey, 1708 ( google.de [accessed on April 13, 2020]).
  12. ↑ Schweitzer Chronic: This is a thorough and true description of the most splendid annual stories, which were released hundreds of years ago in the praiseworthy creation: with the introduction of many well-known wars committed in France and Italy and thoughtful stories. Chronicon or a thorough description of the most memorable thing [s] and that happened in the Helvetic Lands from erbawung in the place of Bern in Nüchtland bit to the 1627th year . Stuber, 1626 ( google.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  13. ↑ Willy Brändly: Andreas Rappenstein, citizens of Lucerne, died in 1565 as pastor of Frutigen . In: Zwingliana . tape 7 , no. 9 , January 1, 2010, ISSN  0254-4407 , p. 537-547 ( zwingliana.ch [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  14. ↑ Christian Moser: The Dignity of the Event (2 Vols.): Studies on Heinrich Bullinger's Reformation historiography . BRILL, 2012, ISBN 978-90-04-22988-4 ( google.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  15. ↑ Less, Martin. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Action or actual disputation and discussion about Zoffingen in Bernner Biet with the respondents. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  17. ^ Leonhard von Muralt, Martin Haas: Sources for the history of the Anabaptists in Switzerland . Theological Verlag Zürich, 1952, ISBN 978-3-290-17319-7 ( google.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Pfistermeyer, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Hans; Pfister Meyer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Preacher of early Swiss Anabaptism
DATE OF BIRTH before 1500
DATE OF DEATH 1548
Place of death Aargau