Johannes Zacharias Petzensteiner

Johannes Zacharias Petzensteiner , also Zacharias Batzenstein (* 1487 in Nuremberg ; † 1554 ibid) was an Augustinian hermit and later Evangelical Lutheran pastor a. a. in Röcknitz ( Saxony ).

Live and act

Little is known about his life and most of the facts relate to the person of the Wittenberg reformer. It is documented that he accompanied Luther as one of his companions on April 2, 1521 on the trip to Worms , to the Reichstag . Other companions were the legal scholars Nikolaus von Amsdorf and Hieronymus Schurff . On the return journey from Worms, when the outlawed Luther on May 4, 1521 17-18 watch near Castle Altenstein in Bad Liebenstein by the Knights Burkhard dog Wenkheim and Hans parakeet von Berlepsch captured in appearance, kidnapped and on the Eisenach Wartburg set In order to avoid the danger of persecution, Petzensteiner sat with Nikolaus von Amsdorf and Luther in the second traveling car. Since he was not informed about the plans, Petzensteiner fled in a panic and reached Waltershausen on foot , which he finally reached in the evening.

In 1530 he worked as a preacher in the Nimbschen monastery .

In a letter from 1540 Luther to the princes Johann von Anhalt-Zerbst and Georg von Anhalt he wrote about the unsuitability of Johannes Zachariä Petzensteiner as successor to Nikolaus Hausmann , who died in 1538. He then succeeded Leonharth Steinkirch in Görlitz in 1544, but a dispute arose with his successor Petzensteiner: There was a dispute over whether the children should be completely immersed in baptism or just watered.

In a parish register he is listed for 1554 as chaplain of St. Egidien in Nuremberg with the year of death.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Country and cross-denominational pastors book. A project of the Working Group for Saxon Church History, the Institute for Church History of the University of Leipzig and the HTWK Leipzig, Johann Petzensteiner (1487-1554) digitized .
2. ↑ Christian Gotthold Wilisch: Church history of the city of Freyberg and the city and Dörffer parish in the local superintendur: All ... life descriptions of the ... superintendents and preachers, as well as a special Codice Diplomatico Freibergensi and double register. Leipzig 1737
3. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Genthe : The life of Dr. Martin Luther. Pönicke, 1841, pp. 299-300.
4. ^ Z 8. Luther manuscript collection. State Archive of Saxony-Anhalt, Department: DE, Place of use: Dessau 2011, p. 47 [1]
5. ↑ Dietmar Neß: Schlesisches Pfarrerbuch. Ninth volume, Silesian Upper Lusatia, The Church Districts Görlitz I / Görlitz, Görlitz II / Reichenbach, Görlitz III, Hoyerswerda / Ruhland, Lauban, Rothenburg I / Niesky, Rothenburg II / Weißwasser, The Silesian Church 1945 / 1951-2003, published by the association for Schlesische Kirchengeschichte, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-374-04531-0 , p. 43 [2]
6. ↑ Laurentius: Kurtzer draft of the life story of all at the Görlitz church services, both before and after the Reformation, clergymen, including those gentlemen Cantorum Organoedorum and Ædituorum f. Cuftodum Bey of the main churches of SS Petri and Pauli there: how no less also those Mr. Candidaten Ministerii des Collegii Concionatorii in the monastery and S. Anne churches. Görlitz and Leipzig 1711, pp. 41–42
7. ↑ Johann Jacob Carbach: Nürnbergisches Zion, That is: Wahrhaffte Description All domestic churches and schools and outside the Empire city of Nuremberg: Wherein Messrs Church Pflegere, preachers, Capläne, Rectores and Collegae, both preceded and insonderheit After Reformation are properly recorded and found; In addition to the attached historical message of the origin and fats of whose churches, monasteries, hospitals, chapels and Siechkobel, how they look inside like the monuments inside. 1733, p. 30