Dominik Zili

Dominik Zili ; Also Dominik Zyli (* before 1500 in St. Gallen , † 17th August 1542 ) was a Swiss Reformed clergyman and reformer.

Life

St. Gallen in the Stumpf Chronicle of 1548, woodcut after a picture by Hans Asper

Dominik Zili was probably the illegitimate son of Heinrich Zili and Genoveva Sproll. Like Ludwig Hätzer , for example, he studied at the University of Basel in 1517 and was enrolled at the University of Vienna in 1518 ; In 1519 he returned to St. Gallen and in 1521 became a schoolmaster at the city's Latin school .

In 1525 he became a reader in the parish church of St. Laurentzen , where he later also worked as a pastor. From 1526 he worked as a marriage judge after the marriage court had been founded in the same year.

reformation

Dominik Zili tried, together with Joachim Vadian , to push through the Reformation in St. Gallen, particularly against the will of Abbot Franz von Gaisberg . After the introduction of the Reformation, he became a member of the four-person Reformation Commission in 1524, which was supposed to provide suggestions for the future form of church services. When Johannes Kessler was temporarily removed from his position as founder and head of the Läsinen , he took on his task of disseminating additions and interpretations to the sermons ; Due to the great popularity with several hundred listeners, these had to be held in the St. Laurentzen town church.

On the occasion of the conflict with the beginning Anabaptist movement , he read Zwingli's work Von dem Touff in front of the council on June 4, 1525 in St. Laurenzen . From the widertouff. And from children's touff .

He also appeared as a spokesman for the Zwinglian Reformation at disputations in St. Gallen, Baden , Bern and Basel . For example, on May 21, 1526, a public disputation was held in the parish church of Baden with the doors open and in the presence of many foreign and local listeners, in which Johannes Oekolampad , Pastor Jakob Imeli von Basel, Berchtold Haller , Johann Heß and Benedikt Burgauer and others disputed with the Catholic theologian and opponent of Martin Luther, the theologian Johannes Eck .

In 1527 Zili was recognized as a pastor. On March 7, 1529, he delivered the first evangelical sermon in front of an audience of over 3,000 when the city temporarily occupied the collegiate church and carried out an iconoclasm .

With his demand for measures to ensure church order and doctrine, church discipline , he only partially prevailed. In 1533 he brought together the traditions of the Reformation songs in the first church hymn book, To Praise and Thanks God , of Reformed Switzerland by collecting song texts; the hymn book was re-edited by Frank Jehle in 2010.

Zili was probably also the author of the first Reformed St. Gallen liturgy . Due to his pastoral work, he also had a lot to do with the sick and died of the plague . His library - during his lifetime it comprised 70 volumes - was acquired by the city in 1553 and has been part of the Vadiana ever since .

Fonts (selection)

To praise and thank God. St. Gallen 1533.
Wolfgang Jufli; Joachim Vadianus; Johannes Vogler; Jakob Riner; Dominik Ziely: Doctor Wendeli Predicant in the closter in S. Gallen / who defied the Euangelion from the Predicantẽ of the parish to Sant Laurentzen there was founded with what. Predicants obtained by seminal wheel stroke / also by help vnnd zůthůn D. Joachimen von Watt vßgangẽ to S. Gallen vff del XI. day first. Autumn. in MD XXVI. Christoph Froschauer d. Ä., Zurich 1526.
Andreas Althamer ; Pelagius Amstein; Paul Beck; Ambrosius Blarer ; Nikolaus Brieffer; Martin Bucer ; Johann letter; Benedikt Burgauer ; Wolfgang Capito ; Nicholas Christians; Jakob Edlibach; Joseph Forrer; Alexius Burr; Berchtold Haller ; Theobald Huter; Matthias Keßler; Walter Klarer ; Franz Kolb ; Johannes Lottstetter; Johannes Mannberg; Niklaus Manuel; Gilg Mason; Johannes Ökolampadius; Konrad Sam; Daniel Schatt; Konrad Schmid ; Konrad Treger ; Joachim Vadian; Johannes Wächter; Jakob Würben; Dominik Ziely; Ulrich Zwingli the Elder Ä. : Action or Acta held disputation on Bern (n) in uechtland. Christoph Froschauer the Elder Ä., Zurich 1528.
This includes the most common psalms, as well as other gaist chants and chants founded in the Gschrift, as they are sung in a number of Christian communities, especially at Sant Gallen, for praise and thanks to God. Christoph Froschauer the Elder Ä., Zurich 1533/1534.

literature

Dominik Zyli In: Heinrich Weber : History of church singing in German reformed Switzerland since the Reformation. Schulthess, Zurich 1876, p. 16 f.

Web links

Frank Jehle : Zili, Dominik. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Markus Kaiser: Zili (Zyli). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Dominik Zili: Shaper of the Reformed Church . Lecture by Frank Jehle on February 26, 2018 ( YouTube contribution).
Dominik Zili at Worldcat .

Individual evidence

^ Frank Jehle: Ludwig Hätzer (1500–1529): the "heretic" from Bischofszell. In: Thurgauer Contributions to History , 47, 2010, pp. 7–126. Digitized
↑ Editors Kirchenbote media portal: From armed brothers and a divorce 1529. September 13, 2017, accessed on February 5, 2019 .
↑ Nicole Stadelmann: Not only the woman, but also the head lost: divorces and the marriage court in St. Gallen during the Reformation. In: 158th New Year's Gazette: The Reformation in Eastern Switzerland - Part 2. Historical Association of the Canton of St. Gallen, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2019 .
↑ Illumination of the prejudices against the Catholic Church . S. 53, 1843 ( google.de [accessed on February 5, 2019]).
^ Alfred Ehrensperger: The service in the city of St. Gallen, in the monastery and in the prince-abbot areas before, during and after the Reformation . Theological Publishing House Zurich, 2012, ISBN 978-3-290-17628-0 , p. 233 (restricted use) ( google.de [accessed on February 5, 2019]).
↑ Nicole Stadelmann: Orderly planned - destructively ended: The prehistory of the iconoclasm in the St. Gallen monastery church. Historical Association of the Canton of St. Gallen, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2019 .
^ Josef Osterwalder: Reformation needs songs. St. Galler Tagblatt , June 17, 2010, accessed on February 5, 2019 .
^ Ferdinand Elsener: The legal books in the library of the St. Gallen mayor and reformer Joachim von Watt, called Vadianus. In: Archive of the Historical Association of the Canton of Bern, Volume 44 (1957–1958), p. 251. Digitized
↑ Rudolf Camper: “Ain thurer and werder treasure from books” - 450 years of the Vadian library in St. Gallen. In: Librarium - Journal of the Swiss Bibliophile Society, Volume 44 (2001), p. 14. ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Zili, Dominik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ziely, Dominik; Zilli, Dominicus; Zilli, Dominik; Zyli, Dominicus; Zyli, Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss Lutheran clergyman and reformer
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH	17th August 1542
Place of death	St. Gallen

[1] Frank Jehle: Ludwig Hätzer (1500–1529): the "heretic" from Bischofszell. In: Thurgauer Contributions to History , 47, 2010, pp. 7–126. Digitized

[2] Editors Kirchenbote media portal: From armed brothers and a divorce 1529. September 13, 2017, accessed on February 5, 2019 .

[3] Nicole Stadelmann: Not only the woman, but also the head lost: divorces and the marriage court in St. Gallen during the Reformation. In: 158th New Year's Gazette: The Reformation in Eastern Switzerland - Part 2. Historical Association of the Canton of St. Gallen, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2019 .

[4] Illumination of the prejudices against the Catholic Church . S. 53, 1843 ( google.de [accessed on February 5, 2019]).

[5] Alfred Ehrensperger: The service in the city of St. Gallen, in the monastery and in the prince-abbot areas before, during and after the Reformation . Theological Publishing House Zurich, 2012, ISBN 978-3-290-17628-0 , p. 233 (restricted use) ( google.de [accessed on February 5, 2019]).

[6] Nicole Stadelmann: Orderly planned - destructively ended: The prehistory of the iconoclasm in the St. Gallen monastery church. Historical Association of the Canton of St. Gallen, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2019 .

[7] Josef Osterwalder: Reformation needs songs. St. Galler Tagblatt , June 17, 2010, accessed on February 5, 2019 .

[8] Ferdinand Elsener: The legal books in the library of the St. Gallen mayor and reformer Joachim von Watt, called Vadianus. In: Archive of the Historical Association of the Canton of Bern, Volume 44 (1957–1958), p. 251. Digitized

[9] Rudolf Camper: “Ain thurer and werder treasure from books” - 450 years of the Vadian library in St. Gallen. In: Librarium - Journal of the Swiss Bibliophile Society, Volume 44 (2001), p. 14. ( digitized version )