Johann Eck
Johann Eck (* around 1494 in Kulmbach ; † May 4, 1554 in Coburg ) was a German Protestant theologian and Franconian reformer .
Life
Eck was the son of a baker. In 1504 he went to study in Leipzig and worked as a schoolmaster in Coburg after 1517 and as the rector of the Latin school in Kulmbach from 1518 . The news that Martin Luther preached here on his trip to Augsburg in 1518 and won him over to Protestant teaching cannot be confirmed.
What is certain is that Eck was one of the first heralds of the reformist message in Franconia and openly advocated it in Kulmbach from 1523 or 1524. The bishop of Bamberg and the abbot of Langheim Abbey raised objections to his appointment as pastor in Kulmbach , so that he could only assert his right to the income from 1529 onwards.
When the dispute was resolved, the Reformation in Kulmbach was in full swing. In the next few years the visitation was carried out, in which Eck participants took part. From his later life only his resistance to the Augsburg interim is highlighted. When Kulmbach was besieged and destroyed in 1554, he went to Coburg, where he was taken in by Maximilian Mörlin and died on May 4, 1554.
literature
- GKH Vollrath: Was Martin Luther on his trip to Augsburg in Kulmbach in 1518? In: Contributions to Bavarian Church History 2, 1896, ZDB -ID 5865-8 , p. 33 ff.
- Karl Schornbaum: The position of the Margrave Casimir. Knoll, Nuremberg 1900, OCLC 553486672 (also: Erlangen, Univ., Diss., 1900).
- Wilhelm Gußmann: Sources and research on the history of the Augsburg creed. Volume 1, part 2. Teubner, Leipzig 1911, p. 335.
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| SURNAME | Eck, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and Franconian reformer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1494 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kulmbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1554 |
| Place of death | Coburg |