Johann Isenmann

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Johann Isenmann, also Isenmenger, Eisenmenger, Eyßenmanger (* around 1495 in Schwäbisch Hall ; † February 18, 1574 in Anhausen ) was a Lutheran theologian and reformer.

Life

Johann Isenmann was the son of the tanner Hans Isenmann († 1519). He studied in Heidelberg from 1513, received his master's degree here in 1516, regens the St. Jakob theological college and belonged to the artist faculty from 1520 to 1524, of which he became dean in 1523 as a Baccalaureus . In 1524 he became parish priest at St. Michael in Schwäbisch Hall , where his friend Johannes Brenz (1499–1570) had already started working two years earlier. Since Isenmann due to its Reformation conviction not previously had a priest consecrate leave, some church members refused to receive the Host. In 1527 Brenz and Isenmann abolished early mass in Schwäbisch Hall; the cooperation of the two men ultimately led to the Reformation being introduced in the imperial city.

Given the close relationship between him and Brenz, it is only understandable that he too stood up for the Syngramma Suevicum in 1525 . Many tasks fell to him during the Reformation in Württemberg . In 1526/27 he was involved in the church ordinance and the Brenz catechism for Schwäbisch Hall (printed in 1543). In 1542 Isenmann became superintendent of Schwäbisch Hall. In 1546 the council of the Free Imperial City of Wimpfen called him to carry out the Reformation there.

The Schmalkaldic War and the Augsburg Interim temporarily drove him out of his community. While Brenz had to flee from the emperor's wrath, Isenmann was initially able to stay. But since he had also advised the rejection of the interim, he was dismissed by the council in 1548. He was now given the position of preacher in Urach .

In 1551 Isenmann became pastor and general superintendent in Tübingen . In this capacity he participated in the preparation of the Confessio Virtembergica for the Council of Trento and traveled to Saxony with Jacob Beurlin in 1551 to compare this confession with the Confessio Saxonica . Duke Christoph took him to Frankfurt am Main in 1557 and had him work on the Apologia Confessionis Wirtembergicae in 1561 .

Convinced that he was no longer fully up to the task, he was dismissed from the office of general superintendent. In the last years of his life he was abbot of the Anhausen monastery from 1558 .

family

Isenmann married Christina († 1531), widow of Hans Stettner, from Nürnberg- Wöhrd in Sulzfeld in 1527 and Katharina Bauer (around 1490–1563), widow of Claus Reinbolt, in Hall in 1533 . The later Nördlinger superintendent and early critic of the witch trials Wilhelm Friedrich Lutz (1551–1597) was his great-nephew and was prepared by him from 1561 in Anhausen to study theology. His nieces Margarethe Gräter (1501–1548) and Katharina Isenmann (Eisenmenger) (around 1532–1587) were both married to Johannes Brenz one after the other.

swell

  • Copy of the will of Johann Eysinmanger in the Schwäbisch Hall city archive (Test. 52)
  • Johannes Brenz, Epistola Joh.Brentii ad Isenmannum, Halensem, de comitiis Augustanis , Augsburg 1530, ed. by Michael Weber, in: Confessio Augustana: eaque invariata ex editione Melanchthonis principe accurate reddita nonnullisque animadversionibus historicis exegeticis dogmaticis et criticis illustrata (writings on special occasions [university writings]), Hall 1830
  • Letters from Philipp Melanchthon (1530 to "Joh. Iseman") and Johannes Brenz (1530 and 1546) to Johann Isenmann in the Corpus Reformatorum , Volume II, Halle 1835, Sp. 85f.185-187.384f.
  • Letter from Johannes Brenz (1535) to Johann Isenmann, in: Theodor Pressel (ed.), Anecdota Brentiana. Unprinted letters and concerns from Johannes Brenz , Tübingen 1868, pp. 153f.

Works

  • Johannes Brenz / Johann Isenmann, Bedencken hern J. Brentii and Isenmanni about the federal government and what E. Rath is responsible for hereunder (1527) , in: Johannes Brenz, Werke. Frühschriften II , Tübingen 1974, pp. 197-210
  • Foreword to: Johannes Brenz, In Epistolam Pavli Ad Philemonem, Et In Historiam Esther Commentarioli , Schwäbisch Hall 1543; German: Commentariolus and exposition Johannis Brentij, about the Epistle Sanct Pauls, to Philemonem , distributed by Johannem Klopffer, Augsburg 1545
  • Refutatio Tertiae partis Sotici scripti, cui Author Titulum fecit, De Utilitate Et Necessitate Aliorum Iudicio, Sine Suo Proprio Credendi , Autore Ioanne Isenmanno Abbate in Anhausen, Frankfurt 1561 (contained in the defense of the Confessio Virtembergica )
  • Siegwalt Schiek (ed.) / Johannes Isenmann et al., The oldest Tübinger Ehebuch 1553 - 1614. Text edition and register (Contributions to Tübingen History 11), Stuttgart 2000 (Johannes Isenmann was the first to edit the marriage book)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An ancestor of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; see. Carl Knetsch, pedigree of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (PDF; 144 kB), Leipzig 1932, p. 12.
  2. ↑ The sermon may have been preserved in: Johannes Brenz, Werke. Frühschriften II , Tübingen 1974, pp. 118–121.
personal data
SURNAME Isenmann, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isenmenger, Johann; Eisenmenger, Johann; Eisenmann, Johann; Ysenmenger, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian and reformer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1495
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Hall
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1574
Place of death Anhausen