Adam Krafft

This article explains the evangelical church reformer Adam Krafft; for the sculptor and builder see Adam Kraft , for the publisher see Adam Kraft (publisher) .

Adam Krafft (Adamus Crato Fuldensis)

Adam Krafft (* 1493 in Fulda ; † September 9, 1558 in Marburg ) was a Protestant church reformer in Hesse .

Life

Adam Krafft's home in Marburg

Adam Krafft was born as the son of the temporary Mayor of Fulda , Hans Krafft. He was a student at the monastery school in Fulda with Crotus Rubeanus and the Latin school in Neuburg an der Donau and from 1512 a student at the University of Erfurt . There he dedicated himself to humanism . He had met a group of young humanists who gathered around Mutianus Rufus . He made friends with Joachim Camerarius the Elder . He called himself Adamus Crato Fuldensis now . At the Leipzig disputation , he got to know Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon , which had a decisive influence on him. He then worked as a preacher in Fulda and went to Hersfeld in 1524 . On August 15, 1525, he was appointed landgrave preacher and visitor by Landgrave Philipp .

Adam Krafft took part in both the Reichstag in Speyer and the Homberg Synod . He introduced the Protestant church service in the Marburg parish church and was a professor at the University of Marburg, newly founded by Landgrave Philipp . Together with Heinz von Lüder, he was involved in the reformation of the monasteries , the establishment of the church box , the design of the Hessian order of worship and the writing of the Marburg hymn book. Alongside Martin Bucer , he is considered a reformer of the Landgraviate of Hesse .

From 1526 until her death in 1544 he was married to Agnes Ibach, from 1548 to the widowed Afra Weißmann. A total of ten children resulted from both connections. After his death and the funeral service on September 11, 1558, he was buried in the parish church of Marburg ("in front of the old sermon chair"), where his grave can no longer be located today.

Honor

In memory of this son of Fulda, the building of the former Evangelical Girls' Lyceum at Heinrich-von-Bibra-Platz 14 in Fulda - today the seat of institutions of the Evangelical Church District - was named "Adam-Krafft-Haus" in 1983 and a memorial plaque was attached .

literature

• Winfried Zeller:  Krafft, Adam. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 646 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Schaefer: Adam Krafft, the reformer of Hesse. Diss. Theol., Darmstadt 1911, ND in: AGH NF 8 (1912), pp. 1-46, 67-110.
• Johannes Schilling: Adam Krafft, the first Hessian regional bishop . In: Fulda history sheets . Volume 70, 1994, pp. 87-100 (with extensive references).
• Frank Rudolph:  Krafft, Adam. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 747-760.
• Wolfgang Breul : Adam Krafft and the Reformation in the Landgraviate of Hesse . In: History of the City of Fulda Volume I pp. 256-257, ISBN 978-3-7900-0397-0 .

Web links

Commons : Adam Krafft  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Krafft, Adam. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The beginnings of the parish. In: Christ Church Fulda. Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck, accessed on July 17, 2017 .