Johann Agricola (theologian)

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Johann Agricola (also: Spremberger ; * around 1534 in Spremberg ; † August 30, 1590 in Bautzen ) was a Protestant theologian of the 16th century.

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Agricola first attended the schools in Spremberg, Crossen and Görlitz . In 1550 he turned to Wittenberg at a very young age, where he took private lessons from Petrus Praetorius . After the town fire of Spremberg in 1556 he was forced to leave Wittenberg and look for a livelihood as a teacher in Silesia, but returned to Wittenberg in 1558 - with the help of a grant from the Trattendorf community - to study theology major with Georg . On October 8, 1562 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy and was accepted into the senate of the philosophical faculty the following year. He remained as the preceptor of a son of theLower Lusatian Landvogts Lobkowitz in Wittenberg. On April 23, 1567 he was ordained at the local church by Paul Eber and from then on worked as pastor and superintendent in Calau , where he preached in Sorbian and was given a courtyard in front of the castle by Lobkowitz . In 1575 he took over the pastor's office and official office in Lübben , but soon changed to Spremberg as pastor and also worked as court preacher and personal physician to Count Lobkowitz. Around 1577 he finally became pastor at St. Petri Cathedral in Bautzen . In 1590 he published a foreword to an edition of Habermann's prayer book before he died in Bautzen on August 30, 1590, as a chronogram on his epitaph attests.

Agricola had married on January 20, 1567 in Wittenberg with Elisabeth Schnellboltz, the daughter of the Wittenberg printer and letter painter Gabriel Schnellboltz, who printed a number of works ascribed to Agricola. His children are known by name to Johann Agricola (1567–1609), superintendent in Jägerndorf , and Gabriel Agricola, painter there, and Katharina Lehmann in Bautzen. One of his grandchildren was the Brandenburg court preacher Adam Christian Agricola .

As a theological writer and hymn poet Agricola is hardly of any importance. Meanwhile, the anonymously printed iconographic collections attributed to him enjoy a certain interest in the history of the Reformation and in Cranach research . In the 19th century he was mostly confused with the much more famous Johannes Agricola from Eisleben .

Works

Text page from the rhyming Askanisch-Wettinischen princely chronicle Illustrissimorum ducum Saxoniae [...] vivae effigies
Picture page from the rhyming Askanisch-Wettinischen princely chronicle Illustrissimorum ducum Saxoniae [...] vivae effigies
  • The twelve articles of our Christian faith sampt the holy apostles arrival, occupation, faith [...] . Wittenberg 1561 (online)
  • Warhaffte portrait of a number of highly commendable princes and lords [...]. Wittenberg 1562 (online)
  • True portrait of a number of gelarten men [...]. Wittenberg 1562 (online)
  • Illustrissimorum ducum Saxoniae [...] vivae effigies . Wittenberg 1563 (online)
  • A beautiful labyrinth or wonder castle. From the being and running of the bad and evil world, in these last few days, improved and brought into a right form of a labyrinth. Wittenberg 1568
  • Real, beautiful figures of the most noble Christian virtues, with those characteristics that every human being solves in his entire life. Wittenberg 1569
  • Original abcontrafactur and portrait of all grand dukes, Chur and princes, who ruled the land of Saxony, Praiseworthy and Christian from the year after the birth of Christ in 842 until the present 1586th year. Sampt is a brief explanation of your life, compiled from credible histories and brought briefly into German rhymes. Dresden 1586 ( online )
  • Actual portrait and dedication of Roman princes, kings, princes and lords: sampt utterly of the same consorts, who praised highly praiseworthy deeds and Christian virtues with special diligence in short rhymes. Dresden 1587 ( online )
  • Bildnüs vnd Abcontrafactur: etzlicher Vornemer Gelerten Menner / through which God by strange grace / the right pure truth of the holy Euangelij ... has come to light / who live and change / anticipate in short rhymes .... Dresden 1588
  • Hymns:
    • O father of all the pious (1580) (online)
    • O Jesus Christ, we children, yours (online)

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Agricola (theologian)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Karl Gottlob Dietmann: The whole of the unchanged Augsb. Confeßion dedicated priesthood in the Marggrafthum Oberlausitz, Lauban and Leipzig 1777, p. 65.
  2. ^ University archive Halle (Saale), title: XXXXV, 1, 2, page 178 (Dean's office book of the philosophical faculty of the University of Wittenberg)
  3. ^ Deanery book (as above), p. 747.
  4. ^ Johann Christian von Schmidt: Chronicke der Creyß-Stadt Calau, Lübben 1758, pp. 3, 65, 277–279.
  5. ↑ Destinata literaria et fragmenta lusatica 8, Lübben 1738, pp. 734-740 (online) .
  6. ^ Johann Habermann: Haus Kirchen Cantorei, Bautzen 1590 (online) .
  7. ^ Johann Christoph Wagner: Epitaphia Budissinensia, Bautzen 1696, pp. 9-10 (online) . This prayer book was originally printed together with a Christian Oeconomia by Johannes Mathesius , where Agricola's contribution is traditionally located.
  8. ^ Theodor Wotschke : From Wittenberg church books. In the archive for the history of the Reformation. 1932, Vol. 29, pp. 169-223, here p. 181.
  9. ^ Gabriel Schnellboltz, * Merseburg; † June 2, 1571 in Wittenberg, see Wotschke (as above). He was married to a certain NN Frauendorff from Pegau and came to Wittenberg in 1544 from Leipzig, where he had worked for some time. One son was the letter painter Johann Schnellboltz (married October 26, 1575 in Wittenberg with Sibylle Schleiffer from Schmiedeberg), another son Franz Schnellboltz (born June 8, 1557 in Wittenberg, † April 19, 1601 in Leipzig) became a printer in Leipzig ( see Zedler Vol. 35, Sp. 561; Fritz Roth : Evaluation of funeral sermons, R 1519).
  10. ↑ Born 1567 in Calau, School Calau and Cottbus, ± 1582 (NN) kurf. Ls St. Afra in Meißen with Johann Ladislaus, summer semester 1585 Uni. Leipzig registered (cf. Matr. UL), August 10, 1588 registered in Wittenberg (cf. Matr. UWB), March 18, 1589 Mag. Phil. ibid. (Deanery book phil. fac.), April 22, 1590 ordained in Wittenberg by Urban Pierius (cf. WOB 1590 p. 26), 1590 preacher in Trenčín , 1592 court preacher in Teschen , 1592 in the same function in Jägerndorf, † there as Superintendent on June 30, 1609, m. with Martha Faber, the To. of the rector in Bautzen Thomas Faber (* 1532 in Freiberg; † 1595 in Bautzen), Sun. Adam Christian Agricola (* December 24, 1593 in Teschen; † June 1 / May 22, 1645 in Königsberg / Prussia),
  11. ↑ Karl Gottlob Dietmann: The whole of the unchanged Augsb. Conference dedicated priesthood in the Marggrafthum Oberlausitz, Lauban and Leipzig 1777, pp. 67-68.
personal data
SURNAME Agricola, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spremberger, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH around 1534
PLACE OF BIRTH Spremberg
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1590
Place of death Bautzen