Jacob Montanus

Jakob Montanus (* before 1470 in Gernsbach ; † after 1534 perhaps in Herford ) was a Protestant theologian , humanist and reformer .

Life

Montanus (probably Berg ) came from the Diocese of Speyer and was therefore also called Spirensis or simply Spyr . In 1486 he joined the Herford Fraterherren ( brothers from living together ). It is possible that he then studied in Cologne and became a priest there. Several of his books were printed in Cologne and Deventer , some in Strasbourg (1513). Via Emmerich am Rhein he came to the cathedral school in Münster and was then recommended by Rudolf von Langen as a teacher in Herford . In 1520 he became the head of the "Studentenhof", a school preparing for university studies.

As a humanist, he was highly regarded. His works earned him a lot of recognition. He was in contact with numerous humanists and was friends with Joseph Horlenius and Johannes Murmellius .

Around 1522 he established relationships with the Wittenberg reformers . He must have been to Wittenberg himself and got to know Martin Luther and his family. Luther praised him as the first evangelist in Westphalia . Montanus won the Fraterhaus for the Reformation and was also effective. His last letter is from 1533; soon afterwards he appears to have died.

In addition to sacred poetry, he also wrote school writings. He emphasized that the ancient authors had Latin as their mother tongue, while it is now a foreign language in German countries. This resulted in the use of translations and, in general, greater attention to the vernacular.

Works

• Thesaurus latinae constructionis. Coloniae 1509
• De Passione [et] morte Christi fasciculus mirthae coccineo lugubris metri funiculo colligatus per JM Coloniae 1511
• Argent 1512, Strasbourg 1513
• Collectanea latine locutionis. Daventriae 1511, 1515
• Odarum Spiritualium Liber. Clarissimo viro Ioanni Elio Illustrissimi Episcopi Monasteriensi Cancellario per Christi sacerdotem IM Spirensem, nuncupatus. Argent 1513
• Elegantiae terminorum 1521
• Elegantiae vocabulorum ex Lauren. Valla, Frontone, Capro, Agraetio, Nonioque. In ordinem alphabeticum red. a IM iamdiu dum recognitae. Coloniae 1525
• Vita illustris ac Divae Elisabeth Hungarorum regis filiae. Marburg 1511
• Divi Pauli Apostoli Vita, carmine heroico ... descripta. Colonia 1513, 1518
• Encomium Rubii Longipolli apud Lipsim in errores, quos pueriliter commisit adversus Wittenbergenses. Wittenberg 1519

literature

• Michael Baldzuhn: The Centuria epistolarium formularum of Jacobus Montanus. In: Christoph Fasbender , Gesine Mierke (Ed.): Latin schools in Central Germany (= Euros. Chemnitz works on literary studies. Vol. 4). Würzburg 2014, pp. 176–203.
• Hermann Hamelmann : Historical Works. Critical new edition . Münster 1902/13.

1. Heinrich Detmer (Ed.): Writings on the Lower Saxony-Westphalian scholar history . 1902.
2. Klemens Löffler (Hrsg.): Reformation history of Westphalia . 1913.

• Ludwig Hölscher :  Montanus, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 176-180.
• J. Klaus Kipf: Montanus, Jacobus . In: Franz Josef Worstbrock (Ed.): German Humanism 1480–1520. Author Lexicon. Vol. 2, de Gruyter, Berlin 2009/13, Col. 222-239.
• Klemens Löffler (Ed.): Twenty letters from Herford's brother Jakob Montanus to Willibald Pirckheimer. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity , Vol. 72 (1914), No. 1, pp. 22-46, ISSN  0083-9043
• Hans-Ulrich Mose: The Herford humanist and Fraterherr Jacobus Montanus Spirensis († after 1534). In: Yearbook for Westphalian Church History , Vol. 96 (2001), pp. 21–53.
• Dietrich Reichling: The humanists Joseph Horlenius and Jakob Montanus. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity , vol. 36 (1878), 1st section, pp. 3–32, ISSN  0083-9043 (with catalog raisonné from p. 25).
• Robert Stupperich : Devotio moderna and Reformation piety. In: Yearbook of the Association for Westphalian Church History , Vol. 60 (1967), pp. 11–26.
• Robert Stupperich: The importance of the Latin school for the spread of the Reformation in Westphalia. In: Yearbook of the Association for Westphalian Church History , Vol. 44 (1951), pp. 83–112, 95f.
• Robert Stupperich:  Montanus, Jacob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 41 ( digitized version ).
• Walter Troxler:  Montanus, Jakob. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 1095-1096.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kipf: Montanus, Jacobus , 2009, col. 225.