Jakob Funkelin

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jakob Funkelin , also Funcklin , Fünklin , Fünklin , Funckelin , (* 1522/1523 in Konstanz , † November 3, 1565/1566 in Biel ) was a reformed theologian and well-known playwright of the 16th century.

Life

Funkelin was the son of the town clerk of Constance. At the age of ten he was a student of the Constance reformer Ambrosius Blarer , with whom he remained close friends throughout his life. From 1536 he studied theology in Basel, Tübingen and Stuttgart. After 1541 he was pastor in Konstanz, where he established close relationships with Heinrich Bullinger and other representatives of the Reformation in Zurich. After Konstanz came to Upper Austria in 1548 and became Catholic again, he had to leave Konstanz with Blar. While Blarer settled in Sankt Gallen, Funkelin took over a parish in Tägerwilen in the canton of Thurgau for eleven months in 1549 and then a pastor's post in Biel in the canton of Bern until his death .

From 1551, Funkelin, as dean, together with Blarer, created new church service regulations, participated in the first Biel school regulations of 1555 and introduced community singing. Funkelin wrote hymns and made a name for himself as the editor of several editions of the Konstanz hymnal. His sermons were greatly appreciated, notably by John Calvin .

He became known as an author, editor and director of entertaining and catechetically instructive Biblical dramas of the Reformation style (eleven of which are known by name, four have been handed down). From 1550, Funkelin had his own pieces performed by both students and private individuals. In his dramaturgical work he has reused old pieces or parts of them; so his Lazarus was based on the anabion of Johannes Sabius . He died of the aftermath of the plague .

Funkelin's efforts to spread the "wood-saving art" (economical heating and cooking) led him to ruin. In 1542 he married Anna Grutzerin, later Anna Jeger, a sister of the Biel councilor Heinrich.

Works

  • Rich Man and Poor Lazarus (1550)
  • A very funny and useful tragedy ... (1551)
  • Death and awakening of Lazarus
  • Loth and Abraham
  • Ahasuerus and Esther (1552)
  • Nativity (1553/1554)
  • Sodom and Gomorrah (1554)
  • The world living in vices and what punishment always follows afterwards
  • Apocalypse (1555)
  • The Prodigal Son (1561)
  • Our Lord's Resurrection and Ascension (1562)
  • Susanne (1565)

such as

  • "A clergyman from the receipt of the birth of Jesus Christ also to the one who lost himself before, by and after the birth.", Zürych: Christoffel Froschouer, 1554.

Quotes

give the win nit us to the people,
min thirst I have to quench earlier,
the rest should then be iren.
si dorftind in wol even ufriben.

literature

  • Julius Tittmann (ed.): Drama from the sixteenth century. Part 1: Nikolaus Manuel, Paul Rebhun, Lienhart Kulman, Jakob Funkelin, Sebastian Wild, Petrus Meckel , Brockhaus Leipzig 1868, XLIV, 290 pp.
  • Kosch, Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon 5, 911
  • WF Michael: Das deutsche Drama der Reformationszeit , 1984, 172–179
  • Newton Stephen Arnold: A Swiss Resurrection Play of the sixteenth Century. Published from the Original Manuscript with Introduction and Notes , New York 1949, 73 p., II p., 136 p. (Dissertation at Columbia University) Text and commentary on the “Older Zurich Resurrection Game” by Jacob Fünklin, pastor in Biel (1522 -1565). S. Bourquin 150.
  • Stephen L. Wailes: The Rich Man and Lazarus on the Reformation Stage: A Contribution to the Social History of German Drama . Susquehanna University Press, Selinsgrove / Associated University Presses, London 1997, pp. 93ff. ISBN 0-945636-88-1
  • W. and M. Bourquin, Biel, Stadtgeschichtl. Lexicon, 1999, 150f.
  • Max Schiendorfer: The stage as a pulpit. The Biel predicant and playwright Jakob Funcklin (1522 / 23–1565). In: Nova Acta Paracelsica, 22/23 (2008/2009), pp. 51-74.
  • Hans Rudolf Lavater: Lignea Aetas. The dean of Biel, Jakob Funcklin, and the beginnings of “wood saving” (1555–1576). In: Ulrich Gäbler , Martin Sallmann , Hans Schneider [eds.]: Swiss church history - newly reflected. Festschrift for Rudolf Dellsperger on his 65th birthday. (Basel and Bern studies on historical and systematic theology, vol. 73), Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt a. M., New York, Oxford, Vienna 2011, 63–145.
  • Wilhelm Scherer :  Funkelin, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, pp. 203 f.
  • Heidy Greco-Kaufmann: Jakob Funckelin . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 658 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Fünklin, Jakob in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Scherer:  Funkelin, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, pp. 203 f.
  3. ↑ A very funny and useful tragedy . In: Tittmann: Jakob Funkelin in the plays of the 16th century . Leipzig 1868, vol. 1, p. 177.
personal data
SURNAME Funkelin, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fünklin, Jakob; Funcklin, Jakob; Funckelin, Jakob; Funkelin, Jacob; Fünklin, Jacob; Funcklin, Jacob; Funckelin, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reformed theologian and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1522 or 1523
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1565 or November 3, 1566
Place of death Biel