Augustin Gschmus

Augustin Gschmus, also Gemuseus (* around 1490 in Mulhouse , † 1543 in Mulhouse) was an Alsatian Protestant theologian and reformer .

Life

The son of the shopkeeper Nikolaus Gschmus was born in Mulhouse in Alsace and was to receive a spiritual education. Therefore, he probably first came to the Latin school in Schlettstadt . He went to Basel to study (around 1505). There he entered the Augustinian order , became a priest and administered the hospital at the Johanneskapelle in Mülhausen from 1505 to 1511, until he was appointed chaplain to the Stephanskirche in St. Beat in April 1513.

In the early 1520s he was already calling himself an Erasmian and a staunch supporter of Martin Luther . Thinking and mediating, Gschmus worked to spread the gospel. At the beginning of the 1520s, he had also persuaded the Mülhausen council to take over reform activities. In addition to the evangelical sermon, a new liturgy was introduced. Lessons and diakonia were designed on the basis of the biblical assumptions. Gschmus was delegated by the council to the disputations in Baden (1526) and Bern (1528).

After his return from Bern he was the first Protestant to take over the pastor's office in Mulhouse. In the same year he married. When it came to the confession in Switzerland , Gschmus occasionally emerged at the great synods of Basel and Aargau in 1535/36. He also represented his city when the Wittenberg Agreement was signed and signed it. Since he was a partisan of Strasbourg , there was bound to be a conflict between him and the people of Zurich (1538).

literature

• Jules Lutz: Les reformateurs de Mulhouse: Augustin Gschmus , in: Mitteilungen des Historisches Museum von Mülhausen 21, 1897, p. 34 and p. 23, 1899, pp. 5-32
• Ernest Meininger: Les pasteurs de Mulhouse . in: Announcements of the Historical Museum of Mulhouse, 43, 1923, p. 69
• Philippe Mieg: La réforme à Mulhouse 1518-1538 . Oberlin, Strasbourg 1948