Gervasius Schuler

Gervasius Schuler (* around 1495 in Strasbourg , † 1563 in Lenzburg ) was a Swiss Protestant theologian and reformer .

Life

Schuler was a child of Strasbourg. At a young age he went to Zurich and became Ulrich Zwingli's assistant. After 1524 he is back in Strasbourg. In 1525, the council assigned him to Bischweiler as a pastor. The community asked for it. During this time Schuler published an interpretation of the Our Father. He had a difficult time in the Peasants' War . He withdrew to Strasbourg.

At Alt St. Peter, it was not only the Old Believers who troubled him, but also the Anabaptists . Against them he published "A Christian Song". However, the chapter lords of Alt St. Peter managed to withdraw. Schuler went to Memmingen , where he vigorously advocated the implementation of the Reformation . The Council often sent him to negotiate. As such, he took part in the Diet of Augsburg in 1530 . There Memmingen signed the Confessio Augustana .

Six years later he had to undertake the trip to Wittenberg in the same capacity ; there he signed the Wittenberg Agreement for his city . He was ousted from Memmingen by the Augsburg interim and stayed in Zurich from 1548 to 1550 . He spent his old age in Lenzburg.

literature

• FW Culmann: Sketches from Gervasius Schuler's life . Stuttgart 1855.
• A. Wrede: Reformation in Memmingen (Memminger Geschichtsblätter 7, 1921, 9-14).
• J. Adam: Evangelical KG of the Alsatian territories . Strasbourg 1928, 201.