Johann Funck (theologian)

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Johann Funck (also: Funk, Funccius ; * February 7, 1518 in Wöhrd near Nuremberg ; † October 28, 1566 in Königsberg , Duchy of Prussia ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of a fisherman had enrolled at the University of Wittenberg in the winter semester of 1536/37 . The Wittenberg Academy was one of the most important universities in Germany at the time. Here he first completed a degree in philosophical and theological sciences. In keeping with the times at the time, this was initially a basic philosophical course. The most important representative of the philosophical faculty in Wittenberg was Philipp Melanchthon . In addition to him, teachers such as Balthasar Fabricius in poetics, Veit Winsheim as a Greek language teacher and rhetoric teacher, Matthäus Aurogallus as a Hebrew teacher, Georg Joachim Rheticus and Erasmus Reinhold as professors of mathematics and Veit Amerbach as professor of physics worked alongside him .

On April 28, 1538, he earned the lowest degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. This gave him the opportunity to pass on his knowledge himself and earn extra income. Once he had secured his livelihood in Wittenberg, he could also attend other lectures. For example at the theological faculty in Wittenberg, which had been the university's big figurehead. Martin Luther , Johannes Bugenhagen , Justus Jonas the Elder and Caspar Cruciger the Elder acted here . To what extent these promoted direct training with him cannot be determined from the documents. Without question, however, these people left a lasting impression on him.

Because after he had acquired the philosophical master's degree on February 11, 1539 , he was ordained as a deacon for Seyda on January 12, 1541 in Wittenberg . Funck he moved to Oschatz as a deacon in 1541 and returned to his home town as a pastor in 1543. In Wöhrd he published a continuation of the Cronicon by Johannes Carion von Melanchthon, which earned him a lot of recognition. In 1547, in the course of the Protestant counter-movements of the Schmalkaldic War , the imperial army moved into Wöhrd, so the city council asked him to be more cautious in his sermons.

However, that did not happen. Because shortly before the billeting of the Spanish troops, he fled from the tribulations that were to be expected against evangelical preachers. Since he refused to be transferred, he was released on May 2, 1547 from his pastor's office in Wöhrd. He initially stayed in Nuremberg, where he married and received a recommendation from Veit Dietrich to the court of Albrecht of Prussia . He arrived in Königsberg on October 28, 1547, worked for Albrecht in Lithuania Minor and accompanied him on a trip to Poland in 1548. Back in Königsberg he became parish administrator and finally pastor at the Old Town Church. In January 1549 Albrecht appointed him his court preacher and councilor.

In that position he became an enthusiastic supporter of Andreas Osiander's doctrine of justification , whose daughter Agnes he married in 1560.

As part of the Osiandrian dispute , many opponents of the position were removed from their offices. After Osiander's death, these disputes increased. Eventually he succumbed to the increased pressure that was being exerted on him; he had to revoke his "heresy" in 1556. However, this defeat did not deprive him of the favor of Grand Master Albrecht. Nevertheless, the criticism of his person increased.

He was made responsible for the ecclesiastical political situation in the duchy. Even after he had provided evidence in 1563 with four sermons that he no longer adhered to the Osiandrian doctrine, a Polish commission was set up at the instigation of the estates in 1566 to review the situation. The commission concluded that Funck had endangered public peace through his stance on the Osiandrian dispute. This was tantamount to high treason for the commission and he and the ducal councilors Matthias Horst and Johann Schnell were sentenced to beheading , which took place on October 28, 1566 on the market in Kneiphof .

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  1. ↑ Huschka ancestors
personal data
SURNAME Funck, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Funk, Johann; Funccius, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1518
PLACE OF BIRTH Wöhrd near Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1566
Place of death Königsberg , Duchy of Prussia