Jacob Beurlin

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Jakob Beurlin on an oil painting from the holdings of the Tübingen Professorengalerie

Jacob Beurlin (* around 1520 in Dornstetten ; † October 28, 1561 in Paris ) was a Württemberg Protestant theologian and reformer .

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Beurlin was born as the son of the mayor in Dornstetten , where, in the old belief, he first enjoyed his schooling in his hometown and in Horb . In November 1533 he enrolled at the University of Tübingen . At first he stayed true to the old faith and completed a humanistic education with the academic degree of a master’s degree in 1541 .

Under the strong influence of Johann Forster , Paul Phrygios and, above all, Erhard Schnepfs, he gradually changed his position on the Protestant faith and convinced his parents of the same. In 1546 he married the daughter of Matthäus Alber and at the same time took over the parish of Derendingen (Tübingen) . When he acquired the academic degree of doctor of theology in 1551, he was appointed professor in Tübingen.

In 1551 he traveled to Langensalza on behalf of Duke Christoph von Württemberg to compare with Joachim Camerarius the Confessio Virtembergica , which was to be handed over at the Council in Trento, with the Confessio Saxonica by Philipp Melanchthon . As theological advisor to the Wuerttemberg ambassadors, Beurlin stayed in Trento from November 1551 to January 1552, but had to return to Trento with Brenz and others in March 1552 to defend the Confessio Virtembergica, which had meanwhile been handed over to the council. However, they returned without result because they were denied an explanation. In the next few years he devoted himself entirely to his academic office, giving exegetical and dogmatic lectures and successfully engaged in academic administration.

In 1554 he was chosen by Christoph von Württemberg as a mediator in the Osiandrischen dispute and sent to Königsberg. However, his attempts at mediation failed. After initial success, the mission was ultimately fruitless. Duke Albrecht would have liked to keep the superior, learned man in the country and offered him a bed, which the Swabian turned down because he did not like the theological situation there. To be sure, he no longer considered the argument a quarrel, as Brenz wanted it to be understood, and gradually moved away from it. Therefore Jacob Andreae was preferred to him at home, who took over the political missions in the following years.

Beurlin was also at the Synod in Stuttgart in 1559 and defended the Confessio Wirtembergica with Brenz against the attacks of the Dominican Petrus de Soto . Duke Christoph appointed him provost and chancellor of the University of Tübingen in 1561 and sent him with Jakob Andreae and Balthasar Bidenbach to Poissy in October 1561 for a religious talk . When the conversation in Poissy had already broken off, he succumbed to the plague in Paris .

Dietrich Schnepf (1525–1586) gave the funeral speech on Beurlin at the academic memorial service in Tübingen . Hans Schickhardt created an epitaph in the collegiate church of Tübingen in 1564 at the expense of the University of Tübingen .

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  • Dietrich Schnepf: D. Iacobus Beurlinus Redivivus & Immortalis . Hoc est, Oratio funebris De pia vita, & lugubri obitu ... Theologi, Dn. D. Iacobi Bevrlini Dornstettensis ... Qui ad Colloquium Possiacenum in Galliam leggatus, Lutetie Parisiorum 28. Octobris Peste peremtus in Festo DD. Apostolorum Simonis & Iudae Ann 61 in coemetario Templi S. Trinitatis, matri terrae redditus, a ... Dn. D. Theodorico Schnepfio ..., Tübingen: Dietrich Werlin d. Ä. 1613

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark Hengerer: Power and Memoria: Funeral Culture of European Upper Classes in the Early Modern Age. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, 2005, 525 pages.
personal data
SURNAME Beurlin, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beurlin, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist, theologian, reformer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1520
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornstetten
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1561
Place of death Paris