Jakob Stratner

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Jakob Stratner (* Grätz (= Gräz?); † 1550 in Bad Wildbad ) was a Protestant theologian and reformer.

Life

Electress Elisabeth von Brandenburg managed to get Margrave Georg von Brandenburg-Ansbach to leave his two court preachers Stratner and Andreas Althamer to Küstrin . Margrave Johann von Küstrin accepted the Reformation , abolished masses and monasteries, and introduced Martin Luther's catechism and the Nuremberg Church Ordinance of 1533. Then he had the two Frankish theologians hold a visitation.

In the meantime, Elector Joachim II. Stratner had chosen, in addition to Georg III. von Anhalt , Johann Agricola Eisleben , Georg Buchholzer and Georg Witzel to contribute to the new church order for the Mark. Philipp Melanchthon rejected the first draft . The second draft, based on the Nuremberg Church Ordinance, came into force in 1533 and, after resistance, was adopted in 1540.

The elector took over Stratner as court preacher in 1539 and appointed him general superintendent of the Kurmark after the church regulations were completed . But Stratner did not accept this because the employees and the circumstances did not suit him. His sovereign, who had given him leave only for a limited time, now appointed him court preacher for life. This gave Stratner solid backing. When the tension in Berlin did not ease, Stratner wrote to Luther complaining about his need. Luther warned him to stay if there were still some people there who needed him. He said frankly, looking at the Berlin church politicians: “Big fools have to have big bells.” Stratner was only looking for an opportunity to leave Berlin. In 1543 he was back in his office in Ansbach. Nothing is known about his further life.

literature

  • M. Simon: Ansbach Pastor's Book. Nuremberg 1955/1956, p. 494.
  • P. Steinmüller: Introduction of the Reformation in the Kurmark Brandenburg under Joachim II. (Writings of the Association for the History of Religion, 76), Halle 1903.
  • H. Jordan: Reformation and learned education in the Margraviate of Ansbach-Bayreuth. 1. Munich 1917, p. 330.
  • L. Lehmann: Pictures from the Reformation history of the Mark Brandenburg. Berlin 1921.
  • Uwe Czubatynski: Messages from the association for the history of Prignitz . 2. Perleberg 2002.
personal data
SURNAME Stratner, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian and reformer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 1550
Place of death Bad Wildbad