Heinrich Roll
Heinrich Roll ( Hendric (k) Rol ) also Heinrich von Hilversum (* at the beginning of the 16th century in Grave an der Maas ; † autumn 1534 in Maastricht ; executed) was an Anabaptist preacher in Münster .
Life
The exact year of birth of Heinrich Roll is not known. He was a monk in the Carmelite convent of Haarlem , where he came into contact with Reformation ideas. After leaving the monastery, he became a chaplain in IJsselstein (Utrecht). In the summer of 1531 he visited Capito's house in Strasbourg and met Bucer, Bernhard Rothmann and Kaspar von Schwenckfeld . In the spring of 1532, Roll stayed in Wassenberg in the Duchy of Jülich . From here he moved with other Wassenberg preachers to Münster , where a Lutheran Reformation had been carried out under Bernd Rothmann and Bernd Knipperdolling . He became a preacher at St. Aegidii Church . Under the influence of roll, the Zwinglian Eucharist represented, a new set sacraments through which to put partnership closed covenant between God and man to expression . When Roll and his followers extended the new doctrine of the sacraments to include the baptism of believers , resistance arose in the population and in the city council. Roll was expelled from Münster in November 1533. In January 1534 he was back in the city and was baptized together with Rothmann. Roll now began to baptize believers himself, such as Gerhard Westerburg . In February 1534 he was sent on the journey as an apostolic messenger from the congregation of Christ in Münster . He went to the Netherlands and was picked up in Utrecht in autumn 1534 . Soon after, he was burned at the stake in Maastricht .
Heinrich Roll, together with Rothmann, is one of the leading representatives of the Münster Anabaptists before Jan Matthys appeared . Whether he can be attributed to the revolutionary direction of Jan Matthys or whether he left Münster because of his pacifist attitude is difficult to judge.
Works
- The Slotel van dat Secreet des Nachtmaels onses Heren Jesu Christi , 1531/32
- Confessions of both Sacraments, Doepe vnde Nachtmaele, the Praedicanten tho Munster . 1533 (together with Bernhard Rothmann)
literature
- CA Cornelius: History of the Münster revolt . Vol. 2. Leipzig 1860, p. 337 ff.
- Ludwig Keller: Roll, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 75 f.
- Susanne Siebert: Roll, Heinrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 617-619.
Web links
- Nanne van der Zijpp: Henric Rol ( d.1534 ) . In: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online .
- The Slotel van dat Secreet des Nachtmaels onses Heren Jesu Christi (engl.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Will de Bakker: Bernhard Rothmann. The dialectic of radicalization in Münster . In: Hans-Jürgen Goertz (ed.): Radical Reformers . Munich 1978, p. 172.
- ^ Richard van Dülmen: Reformation als Reformation , Munich 1977. p. 179.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roll, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rol, Hendrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baptist preacher in Munster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grave on the Meuse |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1534 |
| Place of death | Maastricht |