Johann Hilten

Johann Hilten , also Johannes Herwich (* around 1425 in Ilten ; † around 1500/1502 in Eisenach ) was a German Franciscan .

Life

Johannes Hilten studied theology and philosophy at the University of Erfurt from 1444 to 1447 and then entered the Franciscan Convent in Magdeburg , which belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ). In 1463 he was sent to Riga in Livonia and, after being sent to Dorpat in 1473, he came into conflict with the superiors of the order. In 1477 he was tried for spreading heresies , and Hilten was sent to the convents in Weimar and Eisenach and imprisoned in the monastery. Around 1500 or 1502 he died in Eisenach, probably of starvation.

Act

Johann Hilten was a critic of Christianity of his time, which he viewed as secular. Around 1485 he wrote a commentary on Daniel , to which Melanchthon referred, among others . Because of his prophecy that in 1516 "another man, an opponent of monasticism" would come to reform the church, he was included by Melanchthon in his directory of the prophets of the Reformation . There is no evidence that Martin Luther knew Johann Hilten personally. In fact, Hilten came into conflict with the superiors because of his eschatological predictions; He predicted the subjugation of Germany by the Turks in 1600 and the end of the world in 1651.

literature

Hans Volz : Hilten, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 164 f. ( Digitized version ).
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Johann Hilten. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 870-871. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Urania Culture and Education Association Gotha e. V. (Ed.): Eisenach personalities . A biographical lexicon. RhinoVerlag, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-932081-45-5 , p. 66 f .
Heinrich Reusch: Hilten, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 431-433.
Michael Stolleis : Margarethe and the monk - legal stories in stories , CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68209-4 , pp. 7–29

Web links

Johann Hilten. In: Database of the Controversia et confessio project . University of Mainz, archived from the original on June 9, 2007 ; Retrieved January 18, 2009 .
Works by and about Johann Hilten in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Bernhard Lohse: Luther's theology in its historical development and in its systematic context . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 978-3-525-52196-0 , p. 44
↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Chronological outline of the history of the Saxon Franciscan provinces from their beginnings to the present. Werl 1999, p. 193.223.
^ Franziska Luther: The monasteries and churches of Eisenach (1500–1530). Prologue to the Reformation and how the clergy avoid the interest from etzlichenn poor , in: Joachim Emig, Volker Leppin, Uwe Schirmer (Ed.): Pre and early Reformation in Thuringian cities (1470–1525 / 30) . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2013, pp. 403–435, here: p. 421.
^ Gerd Bergmann: Older history of Eisenach. From the beginning to the beginning of the 19th century . Ed. V. Eisenacher history association. Wartburg Verlag, Eisenach 1994, p. 194; Detlef Ignasiak: Luther in Thüringen , Weimar 1996, p. 31
↑ Hiltenus, Joann .. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon . Volume 13, Leipzig 1735, column 98.
^ Heinz Scheible: Melanchthon: Eine Biographie , CH Beck, 1997, p. 244, ISBN 978-3-406-42223-2
↑ Gustav Ferdinand Leopold König, Heinrich Gelzer: Dr. Martin Luther the German reformer. P. 32 , accessed on February 25, 2009 (digitized view on books.google.de).

personal data
SURNAME	Hilten, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Herwich, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Franciscan
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1425
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ilten
DATE OF DEATH	around 1502
Place of death	Eisenach

[1] Bernhard Lohse: Luther's theology in its historical development and in its systematic context . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 978-3-525-52196-0 , p. 44

[2] Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Chronological outline of the history of the Saxon Franciscan provinces from their beginnings to the present. Werl 1999, p. 193.223.

[3] Franziska Luther: The monasteries and churches of Eisenach (1500–1530). Prologue to the Reformation and how the clergy avoid the interest from etzlichenn poor , in: Joachim Emig, Volker Leppin, Uwe Schirmer (Ed.): Pre and early Reformation in Thuringian cities (1470–1525 / 30) . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2013, pp. 403–435, here: p. 421.

[4] Gerd Bergmann: Older history of Eisenach. From the beginning to the beginning of the 19th century . Ed. V. Eisenacher history association. Wartburg Verlag, Eisenach 1994, p. 194; Detlef Ignasiak: Luther in Thüringen , Weimar 1996, p. 31

[5] Hiltenus, Joann .. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon . Volume 13, Leipzig 1735, column 98.

[6] Heinz Scheible: Melanchthon: Eine Biographie , CH Beck, 1997, p. 244, ISBN 978-3-406-42223-2

[7] Gustav Ferdinand Leopold König, Heinrich Gelzer: Dr. Martin Luther the German reformer. P. 32 , accessed on February 25, 2009 (digitized view on books.google.de).