Anton Reiser (theologian)

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Contemporary copper engraving portrait of Reiser's time in Öhringen between 1675 and 1678

Anton Reiser , pseudonyms : Reiner Sionat Ophthalmopolita , Marianus Sertorius (born March 7, 1628 in Augsburg , † April 29, 1686 in Hamburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian and chief pastor at St. Jacobi in Hamburg.

Life

Reiser was the son of a businessman. His mother was a sister of Pastor Daniel Schmidt (born March 11, 1604 in Augsburg , † February 29, 1660 in Preßburg ) in Preßburg. This uncle and the Augsburg preacher Paul Jenisch († 1648), who was also related to him, took care of the boy after his father's early death. He initially received private lessons in Augsburg and attended St. Anne's School . In 1646 he went to study theology at the University of Strasbourg , where in particular Johann Konrad Dannhauer was his teacher. After four years in Strasbourg, he quickly moved to the universities of Tübingen , Gießen and Altdorf ; here he received his master's degree on June 29, 1651 .

Through the mediation of his uncle he was called in 1652 as a deacon (2nd pastor) to Schemnitz in the Kingdom of Hungary (today Banská Štiavnica in Slovakia ); from here he came to Pressburg in 1659 as pastor of the German Evangelical Church Community AB . After thirteen years of successful activity, he had to leave the city; this was attributed to the pursuit of the Jesuits . Reiser was even supposed to be executed; After the intervention of friends at court in Vienna, he was pardoned, but initially had to go into exile without his family. Reiser went into exile on August 4, 1672 under military custody and provided with imperial passports , together with his brothers in office in the Pressburg parish , David Titius , Valentin Sutorius and Christian Pihringer . They had to undertake in writing never to return to Hungary without special permission from the emperor. Reiser's rich library was confiscated. He also had to leave all his belongings behind in Pressburg.

So he came back to Augsburg in 1672, where he was appointed head of the St. Annenschule; connected with it was the office of the city librarian. In this capacity, he created the first manuscript catalog of today's Augsburg State and City Library . In 1675 he followed a call from the Prince of Hohenlohe to the church of Öhringen , and from here he was elected on November 3, 1678 as the successor to Caspar Mauritius, who died in 1675, as chief pastor of St. Jacobi in Hamburg. On the trip to Hamburg in December 1678 Reiser acquired the degree of licentiate in theology in Gießen . In Hamburg he was introduced to his office on January 3, 1679 by Senior Gottfried Gese. After a short term in office and after he had received his doctorate in theology in 1683, he died in 1686 of a raging fever .

Reiser was married twice. Several children from the second marriage survived the father. Johann Christoph Auerbach, first pastor in Stade, then from 1693 in Hamburg, was a son-in-law.

plant

Reiser was considered a theologian who was distinguished by extensive learning and serious, pious zeal . Although he was strictly Lutheran, he was a friend of Philipp Jakob Spener and was open to the pietism that was forming . In Hamburg he introduced the children's examination , which was held every four weeks and was a preliminary form of the children's church service . In accordance with the culture of debate at that time, he wrote a large number of pamphlets, including against Catholics and Reformed, Quakers and atheists.

A controversy initially caused a stir, in which he got into Hamburg with the Reformed preacher Christian Pauli († 1696) from Altona ; It was about the question of how far the Reformed are entitled to consider themselves confessors of the Augsburg Confession .

However, Reiser's fight against opera and drama had the greatest aftereffect in the first Hamburg theater dispute . Shortly before he came to Hamburg, the first opera performances had taken place here. In his rejection, which he outlined in 1681 in the pamphlet Theatromania on 400 pages, Reiser started from the idea that the times are too serious because there are still as many places where the Protestant fellow believers are oppressed and persecuted by Catholics as are true Christians could enjoy such merrymaking, which he took to be works of darkness . He got into a literary feud over this with August Wygand , who had no understanding for Reiser's main argument and answered him with a pamphlet which he entitled Theatrophania . Reiser then found an ally in Johann Winckler , who came to Hamburg as chief pastor at St. Michaelis in 1684. Winckler continued the fight even after Reiser's death, and in the troubled times that followed in Hamburg at that time, operas were initially banned until they were resumed in 1688.

The equality of the name with the title and the main character of the novel Anton Reiser seems completely accidental.

Works

  • Kurtze and simple-minded consideration / For what the often repeated / and the last declaration of the Roman-Catholic Faith / addressed by Jodoci Kedden's twelve final speeches / Loyolitic Order / about the Lutheran religion / to look at / and how one could meet them with very little. Augspurg: Schultes 1652
  • Honest and confidential conversation between Treulieb and Freymund from the Reformation factory in Pressburg in Hungary. [Sl] [1673]
  • Index Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Augustanae Cum Adpendice Duplici, Praemissus Historiae Literariae & Librariae Ibid .. [Augsburg]: Goebelius 1675
  • Gravamina Non Iniusta: Or lawful complaints / About the very shattered state of the Evangelical Church being today. M. Antoni Reisers / von Augspurg / The time of Hoch-Gräfl. Hohenlohe monastery preacher in Oetingen. Franckfurt am Mayn 1676
  • Little Bible / Or Proverbs-Catechism / That is / Extra-read proverbs of holy scriptures about the Catechismum Lutheri and its main parts /. Franckfurt: Zunner, 1677
  • Repeated proof / that the Calvinist Reformed cannot presume to adhere to the Augsburg Confession / as long as they persistently defend their erroneous doctrinal statements / again Christianum Pauli, of the time Calvinist Reformed preacher at Altona: Which is attached to an appendix / which of the Reformed Teachers are supposed to be kept from writing texts translated into German. Hamburg: Schultz 1680
  • Theatromania, or Die Wercke Der Finsterniß: In which public shows condemned by the old church fathers. Ratzeburg: Nissen 1681
  • Roma Non Gloriosa: Or / The glorious Rome: In historical examination of the life description of the Roman bishops and popes presented by P. Christoff Otten / Lojoliter Order / Because of their various praise and punishable activities / [et] c. Ulm: Kühn, 1681
  • Cometes Index, Dux & Iudex, or Drey Scriptural Comet Sermons / About the words from the third chapter of the Solomonic Preacher Book: God does everything well in its time / and makes people Hertz fear / how things should go in the world ; then the person cannot meet the work / that God does / neither beginning nor end. [Hamburg] 1681 ( digitized version )
  • The conscience-less advocate with his theatrophonia. Hamburg: Lichtenstein 1682
  • L. Antoni Reisers / From Augsburg / Pastori's time to S. Jacob in Hamburg / Five different writings / Persecution suffered by his and other Evangelical teachers in the Kingdom of Hungary before meals: printed together. Hamburg: Völcker 1683
  • Anti-Barclaius, id est Examen Apologiae: Quam non ita pridem Robertus Barclaius , Scoto-Britannus, pro Theologia vere Christiana edidit. [Hamburgi]: Schultzius 1683
  • D. Martin Luther and other spiritual men Christian songs and church chants directed to all times of the year and occasions. Hamburg: Völcker, 1683
  • Conscientious conviction of nullity of repeated evidence / that the Calvinist Reformers / cannot presume to accept the Augsburg Confession & c. : Against C. Pauli instructions / how those of the Reformed religion adhere to the Confession / which princes and estates in 1530. Kayser Carolo V. in Augspurg / did not go ... [Sl] 1684
  • D. Antoni Reiser's Pastoris to St Jacob in Hamburg Conscientious Defense of the Repeated Evidence / That the Calvinist Reformed cannot presume to conform to the Augsburg Confession / as long as they stubbornly defend their erroneous teaching statements / against Christianum Pauli, Calvinist Reformed Preacher at Altona : Subjungitur Adpendix, exhibens Castigationem seriam ... Hamburg: Schultz 1685

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c General German biography
  2. ↑ In 1672 the Counter Reformation in the Kingdom of Hungary reached its climax. The so-called "decade of mourning for Protestantism" (1671 - 1681) began. The Protestants in old Hungary were robbed of all their churches during this time, and Protestant services were banned. The persecution of evangelical preachers in Hungary began under the direction of then Archbishop von Gran Georg Szelepcsényi and the then President of the Hungarian Court Chamber in Pressburg Leopold Kollonich .
  3. ↑ Reiser's second wife, whom he married in 1656, was called Marie Regina geb. Hereditia. She was pregnant at the time of the eviction and only later followed him into exile.
predecessor Office successor
Caspar Mauritius Senior pastor to St. Jacobi in Hamburg
1678–1686 		Johann Friedrich Mayer
personal data
SURNAME Reiser, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sionatus, Reiner; Ophthalmopolita, Pure Sionat (pseudonym); Reiserus, Anton; Reiserus, Antonius; Reiser, Antonius; Reiser, Antonus; Sionatus, Reinerus; Sionatus Ophthalmopolita, Reinerus (pseudonym); Onesimus, Reinhard (pseudonym); Onesimus Lycovindanus, Reinhardus (pseudonym); Onesimus, Reinhart (pseudonym); Reiser, LA; Onesimus, Reinhartus; Sertorius, Marianus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, senior pastor in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1628
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1686
Place of death Hamburg