Gerhard Ungefug

Gerhard Ungefug (* 1490 in Homberg (Efze) ; † 1543 in Sankt Goar ), also called Eugenius , was a Protestant theologian and pastor. With his work he contributed significantly to the implementation of Protestantism in Hesse .

Life

Gerhard Ungefug was a schoolmaster in 1514/15, then a preacher in Homberg until 1527.

In 1527, the landgrave commissioned the theology professor Adam Krafft to carry out a visit to the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen and reported this to the county’s chief magistrate on October 18. Adam Krafft came to St. Goar on November 1st, 1527. Pastor Gerhard Eugenius Ungefug, who was coming to Sankt Goar, presented the guidelines for church reform to the pastors, including a. the service should be celebrated after Luther's German mass and the pilgrimages should be stopped. On January 1, 1528, Gerhard Eugenius Ungefug gave the first Protestant sermon in the collegiate church of Sankt Goar.

From 1531 to 1542 he was superintendent of the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen .

literature

• Alexander Ritter: Confession and politics on the Hessian Middle Rhine (1527-1685) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 9783884433072 , p. 50 f., P. 506.
• Alkmar Freiherr von Ledebur, Hans Caspary, Horst Fehr: The art monuments of the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis . Volume 1, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1988, ISBN 9783422005679 , p. 75.
• Emil Sehling, Gottfried Seebass et al .: The Evangelical Church Orders of the XVI. Century: Hessen I . OR Reisland, 1965, p. 71.