Alexius Crosner

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Alexius Crosner (also: Chrosner or Colditius ; * around 1490 in Colditz ; † probably May 22, 1535 in Altenburg ) was a German theologian.

Life

The son of a wealthy citizen in Colditz, Saxony , enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the summer of 1504 . The following year, he earned the degree of Bachelor of Arts and a 1510 Magister of Arts . He continued his studies and went to Leucorea on June 3, 1512 , was appointed from there as a canon to Altenburg in 1516 , where he became educator of the Saxon-Ernestian elector Johann Friedrich von Sachsen in 1513 .

On the recommendation of Meißner Bishop Johann VII von Schleinitz , the Saxon-Albertine Duke George the Bearded employed him as court preacher in 1524. At first he tried to win the duke over to the Reformation , but soon realized that his plan was hopeless. In 1525 he accompanied Hieronymus Dungersheim to Mühlhausen , where he recommended him to the community. On May 12, 1527 he stayed with the Duke in Breslau, where the Packsche Handel is said to have been closed. Because of his attitude towards Martin Luther, Hieronymus Emser was hostile to him. He had to leave his position as court preacher on November 8, 1527 due to the duke's dissatisfaction.

In Wittenberg the rumor was spread as early as the end of 1527 that Crosner was talking about the change of mind and revocation of Philipp Melanchthon and Luther in relation to the instruction given by the visitors to the pastors in Saxony . Crosner left his two sermons given to Duke Georg on July 20 and 29, 1527 in Dresden and sent to him in writing, which the Duke sent the Meißner bishop for assessment, each with a dedication to Georg on December 25, 1530 and one each Luther's preface provided, in January 1531 in Wittenberg, expanded and improved, print. The Duke now attacked in his pamphlet issued under the name of Pastor Franz Arnoldi († after 1535) zu Cölln in the summer of 1531: Auff the Schmaebuchlein, which Martin Luther defies the assassin to Dreßden, in Kurzuorschiner time, has let him go too and let him accuse him of stealing a velvet felt in Dresden .

Then in September 1531 Crosner published a pamphlet against Arnoldi, probably printed in Magdeburg, with which Luther and Melanchthon were very dissatisfied, and in which he also made hateful comments about his former friend and teacher Dungersheim, so that in 1532 he wrote An faced the slandering priest Alexium Crosner in Colditz .

Crosner earned merit in raising the Colditzer School, had been married since 1530 and had at least two children, one of whom is known by the name of Alexius. The clever, witty, open-minded man and excellent preacher made self-deception, vanity and arrogance "duplicitous and untruthful", especially where it was his advantage or the satisfaction of his ambition.

Works (selection)

  • "A sermon from the Most Highly Holy Sacrament, of the body and blood of Christ" 1531 Wittenberg by Hans Lufft ,

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Feel in the Wiktionary
personal data
SURNAME Crosner, Alexius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chrosner, Alexius; Colditius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH around 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH Colditz
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: May 22, 1535
Place of death Altenburg