Andreas Althamer

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Andreas Althammer
Commentarii 1536

Andreas Althamer (also Andreas Altheimer, Althammer; ) (* around 1500 in Brenz , † around 1539 in Ansbach ), was a German humanist and reformer.

Live and act

After attending school in Augsburg, Althamer studied at the universities in Leipzig and Tübingen . After completing his studies, he became a school teacher in Halle (Saale) , Schwäbisch Hall and Reutlingen . In 1524 we find him as a priest in Schwäbisch Gmünd , where he wanted to introduce the Reformation . Here he came out especially with his first writing, which dealt with his marriage. However, the company failed due to the resistance of the Gmünder Council.

In 1525 he was deposed because of his Lutheran sentiments and went to the University of Wittenberg to avoid persecution by the Swabian Federation . In Wittenberg he started studying theology and became a student of Martin Luther . In the summer of 1526 we find him in Nuremberg , where he was mainly active as a writer. When Althamer became a pastor in Eltersdorf in the spring of 1527 , he completed his “dial situation” in which he confronted the Baptist Hans Denck .

As a deacon moved to the Sebalduskirche in Nuremberg , he took part in the Bern Religious Discussion in 1528 . In May, on the recommendation of Lazarus Spengler , he was appointed pastor in Ansbach by Margrave Georg the Pious . Together with Johann Rurer , he carried out the visitation. At the same time as this work his “Catechism” appeared, which has not remained without influence on contemporary catechetical and liturgical literature. In organizational terms, too, it is of great importance for the Franconian region ; He set up synods and carried out the Brandenburg-Ansbach Church Ordinance of 1533.

He also had a not inconsiderable part in the Frankish creeds. How much he was valued as a church organizer and theological writer is also evident from the fact that in 1537 he was asked by Margrave Hans von Küstrin to carry out the Reformation in Neumark . When this energetic and talented man died shortly before the Nuremberg Convention of 1539, in which he was supposed to take part as a Franconian envoy, the Reformation in Franconia prematurely lost its most ardent supporter.

Letters and handwriting

An important source of Althamer's life are Latin letters, which were printed in Andreae Althameri's Vita by Johann Arnold Ballenstedt (Wolfenbüttel 1740). Ballenstedt's template was Althamer's humanistic composite manuscript in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.

Hermann Ehmer discovered other letters in a manuscript in the Bamberg State Archives.

Works

  • From the Hochwirtigen Sacrament , Augsburg 1526
  • Von der Erbsund , Nuremberg 1527
  • Diallage, hoc est conciliatio locorum scripturae qui prima facie inter se pugnare videntur , 1527
  • Catechism. This is instruction in the Christian faith, how to teach and train the youth, put in question and answer , 1528
  • Silva biblicorum nominum, qua virorum, mulierum, populorum, civitatum etc. propria vocabula, quorum in sacris bibliis mentio explicantor , 1630
  • Commentary on Tacitus Germania , 1529; an expanded second edition appeared in Nuremberg in 1536 under the title Commentaria Germaniae in P. Cornelii Taciti Equitis Rome
  • Diallage, hoc est, conciliatio locorum Scripturae. ...; Conciliationes locorum scripturae, qui specie tenus inter se pugnare videntur, Nuremberg 1544 online

VD 16 offers a directory of his works .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Andreas Althamer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Digitized version : GDZ Göttingen .
  2. ↑ 17.32. Aug. 4 ° Description .
personal data
SURNAME Althamer, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andreas Altheimer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and reformer
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Brenz
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1539
Place of death Ansbach