Benedikt Burgauer

Benedikt Burgauer (born August 1, 1494 in St. Gallen , † January 10, 1576 in Isny ) was a Swiss theologian and reformer .

Life

Burgauer enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1508 , moved to the University of Krakow in 1512 , where he obtained the academic degree of a baccalaureate in theology and a master's degree. After completing his studies, he was ordained as a preacher in Marburg and went to St. Gallen in 1519 , where he was active as a parish pastor.

As a humanist, he had relationships with Vadian , whom he supported and whom he helped initiate the Reformation. The Zurich Reformation also left its mark on him. In 1523 he took part in a disputation in Zurich and took part in the Reformation in St. Gallen from 1524 to 1525. As a representative of St. Gallen, he attended the disputations in Baden in 1526 and in Bern in 1528.

In 1528 he was still writing to Erasmus von Rotterdam , but when he moved to a parish in Schaffhausen and married there, he oriented himself more towards Luther's view. During the preliminary talks on the Wittenberg Agreement , he was considered a Lutheran.

The arguments with his fellow pastor, the Zwinglian Erasmus Ritter , resulted in his leaving Schaffhausen and going to Württemberg. First to Tuttlingen am Sankt Margrethen in 1540 , then to Lindau in 1541 . As early as 1545 he was described as a restless spirit and dismissed. Burgauer now went to Isny , where he could work for another 30 years.

literature

• PS Allen : Opus epistolarum Des. Erasmi Roterodami. Volume 7: 1527-1528. Clarendon, Oxford 1928, p. 526.
• Walther Köhler: Zwingli and Luther. Their quarrel over the Lord's Supper after its political and religious relationships. Volume 2: From the beginning of the Marburg negotiations in 1529 to the conclusion of the Wittenberg Agreement of 1536. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1953, pass. ( Sources and research on the history of the Reformation 7, ISSN  0171-2179 ).
• Werner Näf : Vadian and his city of St. Gallen. Volume 2: 1518 to 1551. Mayor and reformer of St. Gallen. Fehr, St. Gallen 1957, pp. 205-220.
• Paul Staerkle: Contributions to the late medieval educational history of St. Gallen. Fehr, St. Gallen 1939, p. 259 ( Communications on patriotic history 40, ZDB -ID 501261-2 ), (At the same time: Freiburg / Switzerland, Univ., Diss., 1939).
• Jakob Wipf: Reformation history of the city and landscape of Schaffhausen. Orell, Zurich et al. 1929.

Web links

• Magdalen Bless-Grabher: Burgauer, Benedikt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .