Johann Geyling

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Johann Geyling (also: Johann Gayling, Johann Geiling ; born June 26, 1495 in Ilsfeld ; † January 24, 1559 in Großbottwar ) was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor.

Life

Johannes Geyling was sent to the Latin school in his hometown by his father . From 1513 he studied the seven liberal arts at the University of Heidelberg .

After studying at the University of Wittenberg in 1515 and at the University of Tübingen in 1520 , he became a pastor. His first pastor was in Ilsfeld, from where he was expelled around 1523 during the Austrian occupation of Württemberg . At the suggestion of Dietrich von Gemmingen († 1526), ​​he then came to Mömpelgard as court preacher to Duke Ulrich, who was expelled from his country . In 1525 he was one of the signatories of Johannes Brenz's Syngramma Suevicum . In 1528 he was pastor at the town church in Feuchtwangen . When Duke Ulrich became ruler of Württemberg again in 1534, Geyling carried out the Reformation in Weinsberg . In 1548 he was deposed in Weinsberg as a result of the Augsburg interim and briefly found refuge in Löwenstein in 1549 . Finally he came to Großbottwar as a pastor in 1552 , where he died in 1559.

literature

  • Gustav Bossert: Johann Geyling, a Luther student and friend of Brenz . In: Julius Rauscher (Ed.): From the land of Brenz and Bengel. 50 years of church history research in Württemberg . On behalf of the Association for Württemberg Church History. Quell-Verlag, Stuttgart 1946, pp. 14-121