Aegidius Faber

Aegidius Faber

Aegidius Faber (* around 1490 in Kremnitz , † April 6, 1558 in Boizenburg ) was a Hungarian-German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Faber had trained in Buda and had to flee to Germany from the Turks. In 1530 he went to Augsburg as a master at the University of Wittenberg . There he met the reformers Martin Luther , Philipp Melanchthon and Justus Jonas the Elder .

In 1531 he went to Schwerin as a preacher and in 1534 he became court preacher to Duke Heinrich V. In this capacity, he visited the duchy in 1535. Faber's pamphlet From the false blood and idol in Thum zu Schwerin from 1533, which is directed against the excessive veneration of the Holy Blood relic in Schwerin Cathedral, initiated the Reformation in the city. In 1538 he was suspended and in 1540 moved to the court of Duke Friedrich II of Liegnitz . In October 1543 he became pastor in Dessau and after 1548 returned to Liegnitz. Since the Duke of Liegnitz imprisoned him in 1549 for exhorting him to attend church services, he again changed the pastor's office and went to Boizenburg.

Faber is generally seen as a representative of Lutheran teaching who was tenacious against the superstitious tendencies in the church.

Selection of works

• The Psalm Miserere, interpreted in German. Wittenberg 1531
• About the false blood and idol in Thum zu Schwerin. Wittenberg 1533

literature

• Fromm:  Faber, Aegidius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 488.
• Ernst Kähler :  Faber, Aegidius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 718 ( digitized version ).
• Heinz Scheible : Melanchthon's correspondence. Persons 12 Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2005 ISBN 3-7728-2258-4
• Uwe Wieben: Magister Egidius Faber (around 1490–1558). In: Personalities between Elbe and Schaalsee, cw-Verlagsgruppe Schwerin 2002, pp. 10–22, ISBN 3-933781-32-9 .

Web links

• Literature about Aegidius Faber in the state bibliography MV