Johann Fabri

Johann Fabri. Detail of the epitaph in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna

Johann Fabri , also Johann (Johannes) Faber (* 1478 in Leutkirch im Allgäu ; † May 21, 1541 in Baden near Vienna ) was a humanist and Catholic bishop of the diocese of Vienna .

Life

Johann Fabri was actually called Johann (Johannes) Heigerlin . Since his father was a blacksmith, he called himself Faber or Fabri . He completed his studies in theology and law in Tübingen and Freiburg with a doctorate. He was in contact with the humanist Erasmus von Rotterdam .

Around 1510 Fabri was a preacher in Lindau , 1513 official in Basel , 1514 pastor in Leutkirch and from 1517 vicar general of Konstanz . From 1523 he was a diplomat and advisor to the future Emperor Ferdinand I ; In 1524 he became coadjutor of Bishop Theoderich Kammerer in the diocese of Wiener Neustadt . In 1529 he received the provost of furnace . He later became a prominent defender of the Catholic Church in Germany against the reformers Zwingli and Luther . In 1523 he published the "Ketzerhammer".

In 1529 Johann Fabri traveled to England on behalf of Emperor Charles V to receive support from Henry VIII in the fight against the Turks . In 1530 he was a member of the commission to review the Confessio Augustana .

In 1530 he became Bishop of Vienna; he worked there as an avid preacher and wrote numerous polemical writings. In 1539/40 he founded the St. Nikolaus Student Convict in Vienna ( Collegium trilingue ). In 1538 he appointed Friedrich Nausea as coadjutor, who later succeeded him as bishop.

In 1894 Heigerleinstrasse in Vienna- Ottakring (16th district) and Hernals (17th district) were named after him, as was Bischof-Faber-Platz in Gersthof in Vienna's 18th district of Währing .

Works (excerpt)

Constantiensis in spiritualibus vicarii opus adversus nova quaedam et a Christiana religione prorsus aliena dogmata Martini Lutheri , Rome 1522, Leipzig 1523, Cologne 1524 as Malleus in haeresim Lutheranam link
Opera . 3 volumes. Cologne 1537-41

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Johann Fabri. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1588-1589. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Leo Helbling: Dr. Johann Fabri. Vicar General of Constance and Bishop of Vienna. 1478-1541. Contributions to his life story. Aschendorff, Münster in Westphalia 1941.
Leo Helbling: Dr. Johann Fabri and the Swiss Reformation. Benziger, Einsiedeln 1933.
Adalbert Horawitz : Johannes Faber . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 435-441.
Herbert Immenkötter: Fabri, Johann . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie 10 (1982), pp. 784-788
Christian Radey: Dr. Johann Fabri. Bishop of Vienna (1530–1541). Pioneer of Catholic reform. Council of King Ferdinand . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1976
Hermann Tüchle : Fabri, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 728 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Johann Fabri - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

↑ Ulrike Denk: Private scholarship foundations at the University of Vienna . In: Mitteilungen der Österreichische Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte 20 (2000) pp. 163–180, there 168–171.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann von Revellis	Bishop of Vienna 1530–1541	Friedrich Nausea
Theoderich Kammerer	Coadjutor of Wiener Neustadt 1524–1530	Gregor Angerer

personal data
SURNAME	Fabri, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Faver, Johann; Faver, Johannes; Hegerlin, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Humanist, Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH	1478
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leutkirch in the Allgäu
DATE OF DEATH	May 21, 1541
Place of death	Baden near Vienna

[1] Ulrike Denk: Private scholarship foundations at the University of Vienna . In: Mitteilungen der Österreichische Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte 20 (2000) pp. 163–180, there 168–171.