Cyriacus Spangenberg

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Cyriacus Spangenberg
Cyriacus Spangenbergs Adelsspiegel, 1st volume
Cyriacus Spangenbergs Adelsspiegel, 2nd volume

Cyriacus Spangenberg (born June 7, 1528 in Nordhausen , † February 10, 1604 in Strasbourg ) was a Protestant theologian , hymn poet and historian .

Life

Cyriacus Spangenberg was born on June 7th, 1528 as the son of the South Harz reformer Johannes Spangenberg in Nordhausen. After initially being tutored by his father, he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg at the age of 14 . During the Schmalkaldic War he worked as a teacher in Eisleben and then went back to Wittenberg , where he completed his studies around 1550. In the same year he took over the pastoral position of his deceased father at the Andreas Church in Eisleben. He then became a castle preacher in Mansfeld . After the death of Michael Caelius in 1559, he turned down the post of general superintendent of the county of the same name and recommended Hieronymus Mencel in his place .

As an avid supporter of Matthias Flacius , he fought against Philipp Melanchthon and the Augsburg Interim . After rejecting appointments from Nordhausen, Magdeburg and Lübeck , Spangenberg went to Antwerp , where he met Flacius personally and a. a. with Flacius and Hermann Hamelmann wrote the confession of the community, a confession, in which at the time u. a. Johannes Saliger and Johannes Ligarius worked. The advocacy of Flacius' doctrine of original sin led to Joachim Mörlin , Martin Chemnitz and Tilemann Hesshus turning against him after his return to Mansfeld. Spangenberg was accused of Manichaeism and defended himself with his Apologia . The dispute raged on among theologians and citizens until the administrator of Magdeburg, Margrave Joachim Friedrich , sent armed citizens from Halle to Mansfeld on New Year's Eve 1574. Spangenberg fled and came to the district town of Sangerhausen in Electoral Saxony . In 1581 he became a pastor in Schlitz in Upper Hesse . In 1595 he moved to Strasbourg, where he spent the rest of his life writing chronicles for noble families.

His son Wolfhart Spangenberg (1567 – after 1636) became a poet of animal fables and school dramas in Strasbourg.

Works

Spangenberg wrote in various theological and historical fields. His work consists of commentaries, edited catechisms, sermons, Cithara Lutheri (sermons about Luther's songs), 21 sermons about Luther's life. His historical works include the Mansfelder and the Henneberger Chronica. The chronicle of all the bishops of Verden , however, does not come from him.

selection

Among other things, he published in 1568 a Christlichs song book and 1569 / 70 , entitled Cythara Luther a large number of song sermons .

Cyriacus Spangenberg is the lyricist of verses 2–5 of the hymn We all want to be happy ( EG 100) and published for the first time the melody for the song Christe, you are the bright day (EG 469).

Many of the moralizing "devil books" come from his pen.

As a historian he wrote a. a. Mansfeld Chronica (later new as Saxon Chronica ), Querfurt Chronica , Henneberger Chronica and Chronica of the Counts of Holstein-Schaumburg . His nobility mirror is probably the most important early modern nobility tract.

literature

  • Horst Carl : Against the despisers and blasphemers of this honor class. Cyriakus Spangenberg as a defender and critic of the nobility. In: Stefan Rhein, Günter Wartenberg (Hrsg.): Reformatoren im Mansfelder Land. Leipzig 2006, pp. 135–154.
  • Bernd Feicke: Chronicles of the Protestant nobility from the 16th century and their author Cyriakus Spangenberg. In: Contributions to the history of the city and district of Nordhausen. Vol. 28 (2003), pp. 16-26 (with numerous other literature and family tree on the relationships between the clients).
  • Volker Jung : Cyriakus Spangenberg. A loyal student of Luther as a pastor in Schlitz. In: Parish council of the Evangelical Church Community Schlitz (ed.), Volker Puthz, Peter Weyrauch, Volker Jung, Joachim Schulze: For the 1175 anniversary of the town church Schlitz. Schlitz 1987, pp. 88-97.
  • Thomas Kaufmann :  Spangenberg, Cyriakus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 623 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Manfred Lemmer: Cyriakus Spangenberg and the devil books. In: Contributions to the history of the city and district of Nordhausen. Vol. 28 (2003), pp. 77-88.
  • Stephan Rhein, Günther Wartenberg (ed.): Reformers in the Mansfeld region. Erasmus Sarcerius and Cyriakus Spangenberg (= writings of the Luther Memorials in Saxony-Anhalt. Vol. 4). Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-374-02321-9 (eleven articles on Spangenberg, pp. 135-315).
  • Edward Schröder :  Spangenberg, Cyriacus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 37-41.

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personal data
SURNAME Spangenberg, Cyriacus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Theologian, pastor
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1528
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1604
Place of death Strasbourg