Georg Lysthenius

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Georg Lysthenius

Georg Lysthenius ( Latinized from Georg List ; * July 29, 1532 in Naumburg ; † February 27, 1596 in Dresden ) was a Lutheran theologian .

life and work

Georg Lysthenius was born on July 29, 1532 in Naumburg as the son of impoverished parents. He attended the school in Naumburg, the collegiate school in Zeitz and in 1549 found accommodation at the high school of the grammar school academicum in Jena. His teachers included Viktorin Strigel and Erhard Schnepf . Lysthenius then studied for two years under Philipp Melanchthon at the University of Wittenberg , became cantor in Elbogen near Wolkenstein in 1552 , was ordained as pastor in Graslitz by Johannes Bugenhagen in Wittenberg on June 15, 1552 , and took over a pastor's position in Rossbach in 1556 . In 1567 he became a deacon in Weißenfels . At a hunting sermon that Lysthenius gave near Freyburg and at a sermon about the Last Supper in Weissenfels in 1567, Elector August became aware of Georg Lysthenius. After he had acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on March 9, 1568 in Wittenberg , he became pastor and superintendent in Liebenwerda in 1572 . From there he was appointed first court preacher at the court of the elector in 1573.

A relationship of trust quickly developed between Lysthenius and the elector. Lysthenius soon became electoral confessor, confessor of Prince Christian and representative of the electoral council and Prince Educator Paul Vogel.

Lysthenius was a representative of the Gnesiolutherans and openly opposed the theses of the Philippists . Thus he also preached openly against his colleague, the court preacher Christian Schütz . In 1576 Lysthenius took part in the convent held in Torgau . He was also a member of the Torgau commission of "unsuspecting theologians", which conducted the interrogations of the "suspect theologians".

With the death of Elector August around 1586, Nikolaus Krell gained greater influence over Elector Christian I and his church and personnel policy. The positions of court preacher, which until then had been led by strict Lutherans, were newly filled. Georg Lysthenius also lost his job and in 1587 took over a pastorate in Weißenfels, where he became superintendent in 1590. Lysthenius signed the articles on the abolition of exorcism in Leipzig in 1591 , which he soon regretted. Krell therefore sent officials to Weißenfels to arrest Lysthenius, but he was able to flee to Magdeburg in time. After the death of Elector Christian I, Georg Lysthenius was called to Dresden again as court preacher. On February 27, 1596 he died in Dresden and was buried in Weißenfels.

In his fight against Calvinist church politics, he ultimately helped overthrow the Philippists in 1574. He thus paved the way for the implementation of the concord formula in Electoral Saxony.

Georg Lysthenius also tried to convey his worldview as a poet and to fight suspicious theologians and poets. For example in a poem about that

Versverderber

your untuned flutes
Starved poets,
whistles before a measure of rotten beer
The world's daring antics for!
If a judge goes about the village,
How do you torture the head through deep senses
And try
to win a day's wage at its grave through a rhyme.
Big lies are sold for little money,
The stone and iron predominate.
Sleep off, you dreaming poet!
If you seek to wake up the dead,
you must taste for spirit and life yourself!

family

From his marriage to a woman of unknown name († December 22, 1605), a son and three daughters emerged. The children are known to include Andreas Georgius Lystenius (died September 26, 1587 in Weißenfels) and the daughter Magaretha who married Paul Mathesius .

Works (selection)

The main part of his written work are casual sermons and consolation writings for the princely house. For a complete overview, see the directory of the 16th century prints published in the German-speaking area (VD 16) .

  • A frightful, full face and signs like this were seen in the sky on Easter evening of this LXV. Jares between two and three a.m. after noon and what a great amount of damage both to people and cattle ensued. Nuremberg 1565.
  • Four Christian sermons from the Holy of the Most Highly Eve of the True Body and Blood of ours were mediators and Savior IESV CHRIST ... Preached to Dressden and Annaburg / for Churfuerstlicher Serenity. s. l. 1577.
  • To the Consistorium zu Leiptzig: Drey different letters than namely a Recusatio, Protestatio, Refutatio, M.Georgij Lysthenij Superintendent zu Weissenfels because of the new Wittenberg theologians and other superintendents of the consistorio sent the right Zwinglischen Abenbergischer Abenberg of holy baptism. Magdeburg 1592.

literature

(NB: for the ADB the identity of the poet and the theologian is still unclear)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastor book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02137-6 , Vol. 5, p. 486.
  2. ↑ not detectable in the Wittenberg registers, probably since around 1550
  3. ↑ Not pastor in Bohemia. You can only assume a pastor's office in the Evangelical Church if you are ordained.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Sommer: The Lutheran court preachers in Dresden: Basic features of their history and proclamation in the Electorate of Saxony. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08907-1 , p. 79 ( online sample )
  5. ^ Deanery book of the philosophical faculty of the University of Wittenberg. Tit.XXXXV, 1, 2, p. 218 In: Universitätsarchiv Halle Pfännerhöhe 48
  6. ^ Karl Pallas : The registries of the church visits in the former Saxon spa district . 1914
  7. ↑ List or Lystenius or Lysthenius, Listenius, George. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 17, Leipzig 1738, column 1633-1635.
  8. ↑ It was about exorcism as part of the baptismal ritual
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Sommer: The Lutheran court preachers in Dresden. Basics of its history and proclamation in the Electorate of Saxony. Stuttgart 2006, pp. 79-87.
  10. ^ Gotthard Lechler:  Lysthenius, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 744.
  11. ↑ Quoted from the Lyrikkalender in Deutschlandradio; also in: German Baroque Poetry. Based on the edition by Edgar Hederer ed. u. exp. by Karl Pörnbacher, 6., rev. u. exp. Edition. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-446-12873-5 , p. 290.
personal data
SURNAME Lysthenius, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lysth, Georg; Lysthenius, G .; Lysthen, Georg; Listenius, Georg; List, Georg; Listenius, Georgius; Listhenius, Georgius; Lysthenius, Georgius; Lysthen, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reformer and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1532
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1596
Place of death Dresden