Jacques Gruet

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Descriptive pamphlet by Jacques Gruet, June 27, 1547.

Jacques Gruet , also called Jakob Gruet and Jacobus Gruet († July 26, 1547 in Geneva ), was a Geneva libertine and atheist .

Life

Gruet stood up for the freedom of the individual. In his view, all laws, including those of the Church, are man-made. Gruet was regarded as a sharp critic of the reformer Johannes Calvin and posted diatribes against Calvin on street corners in the Low French language. In Gruet's view, the immortality of the soul was nothing more than a fairy tale . He also found texts critical of religion. Gruet therefore died in 1547 after being tortured on the scaffold.

plant

literature

  • Wolfgang Gericke: The book De Tribus Impostoribus , Berlin, 1982.
  • Wolfgang Gericke: The truth about the book of the Three Fraudsters (De tribus impostoribus) , in: Theological attempts , 4, 1972, pp. 89–114.
  • Wolfgang Gericke: When was the book Of the Three Fraudsters written? , in: Theological Trials , 7, 1977, pp. 129–155.
  • Philip Schaff: The History Of The Reformation , Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, MT 2004 (History Of The Christian Church, Volume VIII)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.contretemps.eu/interventions/geneve-temps-calvin-theocratie-dictature-dune-bourgeoisie-immature
  2. ↑ F. BERRIOT: Un procès d'athéisme à Genève: l'affair Gruet (1547-1550) . In: Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français Paris . tape 125 , 1979, pp. 577-592 .
personal data
SURNAME Greetings, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruet, Jakob; Greetings, Jacobus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss libertine and atheist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1547
Place of death Geneva