Joachim Aberlin

Joachim Aberlin (* in Gallmannsweil ; † after 1554 ) was an Evangelical Reformed pastor, teacher and hymn writer .

Life

After a humanistic-philological school education, Aberlin was employed as a schoolmaster in Lauingen from 1525 to 1536 . He turned to the Upper German Reformation , was with Zwingli and Karlstadt in Zurich in 1530/1531 and was in contact with Theobald Billicanus , Bonifacius Wolfhart , Gerhard Eobanus Geldenhauer (called Noviomagus) and Wolfgang Musculus as well as Sigmund Salminger (* um 1500; † around 1554) and Jakob Dachser .

At the end of 1534 he traveled - probably due to difficulties in Lauingen - to talk to Ambrosius Blarer in Tübingen and was soon appointed as a schoolmaster in Göppingen . In 1542 he took up the parish in Heiningen , where he radically implemented the Reformation. In the course of the Schmalkaldic War and the imperial interim he got into trouble in Heiningen. In 1549 he returned to his schoolmaster position in Göppingen. In 1551 he moved to the parish office in Fortschwihr in the county of Horburg (Upper Alsace), where he found a reformed environment based on the Zurich order. He is last mentioned in June 1552.

Joachim Aberlin left behind various publications. On the one hand, he wrote a Latin school grammar in Lauingen in which he tried to convey the material to the pupil as a question-and-answer text. In 1534 he published a rhymed summary of the Bible in order to make the Bible accessible to the broadest possible audience through the rhymed German-language chant. The Old Testament , Psalms and New Testament were presented in three songs, a remarkable work with 227 stanzas of 9 verses, certainly his most successful work, which has been reprinted several times. In 1537, together with Sigmund Salminger, he published one of the first rhyming psalteries of the Reformation period, which, in addition to psalm poems by Ambrosius and Thomas Blarer , Johannes Zwick , Leo Jud and other Upper German songwriters, contained 70 of his own psalm songs. The psalm poems, which were included in the first four-part psalter of the Reformation by Sigmund Hemmel , probably come from these poems .

literature

• Paul Pressel :  Aberlin, Joachim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 20.
• Hans Ulrich Bächtold:  Joachim Aberlin. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 1-3.