Georg Staeheli
Georg Stäheli (n) , Latinized Chalybaeus or Chalybaeolus (* last decade of the 15th century in Galgenen ; † June 7, 1573 in Zurich ) was a Reformed pastor and fellow campaigner of Zwingli .
Life
Georg Stäheli was born in Galgenen ( Canton Schwyz ) at the end of the 15th century . Youth and education are also not mentioned in his autobiography. From 1518 he was a chaplain in Altendorf on Lake Zurich , but a short time later he took the position as a parish assistant in Baden (today Canton Aargau ). In 1520 he was appointed pastor at St. Leonhard's Church in Basel .
However, he accepted Ulrich Zwingli's offer and became a helper at Zurich's Grossmünster . In this position he was one of the co-signers of the petition to the Bishop of Constance , in which the abolition of celibacy was demanded ( Supplicatio ad Hugonem episcopum , 1522). From autumn 1522 he served as vicar in Freienbach (Canton Schwyz). After just one year (autumn 1523) he left Freienbach and took up the pastor's post in Weiningen ( Canton of Zurich ).
As a representative of the radical Reformation , he caused quite a stir in the Swiss Confederation . The double wedding that he and the pastor of Höngg , Simon Stumpf , performed together and the iconoclasm in the church of Weiningen were finally the subject of a diary . It was only thanks to the armed support of parish members that he was able to evade imminent arrest by the Catholic governor of Baden ( Weininger Handel ).
Conflicts with the benefactor and financial bottlenecks prompted Stäheli to accept a pastor's post in Biel in 1528 . In 1531 he was appointed pastor to Zofingen . Together with his colleague Sebastian Hofmeister , who had worked there since 1528, he took part in the "Anabaptist Talks" in Zofingen (1532).
From 1543 to 1546 he was again a deacon at the Grossmünster. From 1545 he worked as a pastor in Rüti (Canton Zurich) and from 1559 in Turbenthal . According to his own statements, he found a poor benefactor, poor housing and poor income here . After his retirement in 1570, he moved to Zurich, where he died on June 7, 1573.
Works
- Life description of Mr. Geörg Stähelins, a beginner of the Evangelical Reformation, recorded by himself. In: Johann Jakob Ulrich (Ed.): Miscellanea Tigurina. Volume 2, Zurich 1723, pp. 679–696 ( digitized version )
literature
- Theodor Sieber: Georg Stäheli and the Reformation in Weiningen . In: Zwingliana. 3/9 (1917), pp. 277-284 pdf ; 3/10 (1917), pp. 296-305. pdf .
- Christian Moser: Stäheli (Chalybaeus), Georg (Jörg). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 32, Bautz, Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88309-615-5 .
- Albert Schumann: Stähelin, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 390-392.
- JJ Frikart: Circumstances from the public life of Mag. Georg Stähelin, past pastor of Zofingen 1531–1543. Zofingen 1831.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography , first published in Miscellanea Tigurina 1723.
- ↑ Federal Farewells, Volume 4, Section 1a, p. 359.
- ^ Miscellanea Tigurina, p. 695.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Staeheli, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stahli, Georg; Stahlin, Georg; Chalybaeus; Chalybaeolus; Master Jörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Reformed pastor and fellow campaigner of Zwingli |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1490 and 1500 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Galgenen , Canton of Schwyz |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1573 |
| Place of death | Zurich |