Johann Bornemacher

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Johann Bornemacher (*? In the Duchy of Braunschweig ; † January 3, 1526 in Verden ) was a Lutheran theologian and martyr .

biography

Bornemacher was a Cistercian monk in the Walkenried monastery in the Harz region. In 1525 he became a preacher at the St. Rembertikirche in Bremen . He represented the Lutheran faith early on . He then married a nun. He got many of his writings from Martin Luther in Wittenberg and Leipzig. On the return journey he attended a service in Verden Cathedral on December 8, 1525 "and was so appalled by this old sermon that he jumped up and ranted very eagerly against it and proclaimed Luther's new teachings." Bornemacher was taken prisoner on the orders of Bremen's Archbishop Christoph , who was also Bishop of Verden . His evangelical catechisms and books of psalms, transported in barrels, would be confiscated. Bornemacher was "tortured by trying to tear off his limbs, burning his genitals with glowing coal and giving him nothing to drink but salty herring brine. All of this to convert him to Catholicism."

The reformer Borne maker was as heretics burned in late as the 1560s Catholic Verden at the stake. The people of Bremen avenged his death through mocking poems and processions in which they mocked the Catholic nature.

Honors

  • The Johann-Borne Wheeler Street in Bremen-Walle (West) and the Borne makers street in Verden were named after him.
  • A stele commemorates him in the street Burgberg in Verden .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Bornemacher, a martyr of the Reformation  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The terrible death of the reformer Johann Bornemacher Bremen Zwei , February 17, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Bornemacher, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1526
Place of death Verden