Hieronymus Rauscher

Hieronymus Rauscher (* unknown; † 1569 in Amberg ) was a Lutheran theologian of the Reformation period .

Rauscher made a name for himself through polemical sermons and satirical writings against the Pope and many apparitions of his time. Known and repeated several times and continued, about a hundred selected / big / vnuerschempte / fat / wolgemeste / astonished / Papist lies [...] so that the Papists defend the most ardent articles of the Lere [...] from jren's own scribes (first 1562). He also wrote a number of popular theological writings and contributed to the spread of anti-Judaist legends in the Protestant world.

In 1548 he was employed as a deacon at the Lorenz Church in Nuremberg until he lost his position because he had opposed the Augsburg Interim - a provisional compromise between Protestant and Catholic princes and the emperor. He then became a preacher in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate and later in Kemnath . Finally he became court preacher in Amberg, where he stood out as a polemicist against the Catholic Church.

literature

• Julius August Wagenmann:  Rauscher, Hieronymus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 447 f.
• Maximilian Weigel: Contributions to the history of the life and work of Hieronymus Rauscher. In: Journal for Bavarian Church History 13 (1938), pp. 151–175.

Web links

• Catalog of the Berlin State Library: Works by Hieronymus Rauscher