Johann Jakob Ammann (clergyman)

Johann Jakob Ammann (* 1500 in Zurich ; † November 12, 1573 ibid) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and headmaster .

Life

Johann Jakob Ammann was the son of the wealthy cloth merchant Hans Ammann (1460–1526) and his wife Martha (* approx. 1472; † unknown), daughter of Heinrich Baumann.

He studied with Konrad Grebel from 1517 to 1521 , from 1517 to 1519 with Glarean in Paris and in 1519 with Beatus Rhenanus in Basel, then with Rudolf Collin in Milan .

On January 14, 1526 he became canon at the Grossmünster in Zurich as well as professor of the Latin language at the Collegium Carolinum Latin school , so he was also responsible for the courses in rhetoric and dialectics .

In 1529 he took in Conrad Gessner in his house community, who studied at the Carolinum as a student until 1532 and whom he later advised to start studying medicine.

Johann Jakob Ammann was a participant in the First Kappel War and in the Second Kappel War that followed .

In 1532 he and Hans Hagnower became the administrator of the canons' assets and from 1534 until his death he was a scholarch , i.e. the highest rector of all schools in Zurich, including the Carolinum Latin School at Grossmünster.

He took part in various religious conversations, including in 1526 in Ilanz and in 1528 at the Bern Disputation in Bern ; he was also a participant in the Zurich Synods, albeit under his Latinized name Ammianus only as a silent participant; Huldrych Zwingli presided over these .

Johann Jakob Ammann was related to the Baptist father Konrad Grebel since June 6, 1525 through his first marriage to Dorothea Grebel (* 1505 in Zurich; † unknown); his brother-in-law was Joachim Vadian . In his second marriage he was married to Anna (née Meyer); they had a daughter together. In his third marriage he was married to Elisabeth (née Egger) († 1556), they had six children together; of these, his daughter Barbara Ammann was married to Burkhard Leemann, who later became the Antistes of the Zurich church , and his son Jost Amman was later a copperplate engraver , painter and author .

Fonts (selection)

Rudimenta artium dialecticae et rhetoricae: in minoribus scholis iuventuti Tigurinae confecta . Tiguri: Apud Christophorum Froschouerum, at. 1559.
Verba et locutiones oratoriae decerptae ex libris oratoriis MT Ciceronis: quibus accedunt locutiones dialecticae, ac forenses, ex iisdem libris Ciceronis collectae . Tiguri: Apud Andream Gesnerum, 1559.

Web links

Heinzpeter Stucki: Johann Jakob Ammann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Ammann, Johann Jakob . In: Index entry: German biography .

Individual evidence

^ Family tree of Hans Ammann. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
^ Philipp Melanchthon, Heinz Scheible: MBW . P. 66. Frommann-Holzboog, 1977, ISBN 978-3-7728-2257-5 ( google.de [accessed on October 9, 2019]).
^ Peter Opitz, Ernst Saxer: Zwingli read: Central texts of the Zurich reformer in today's German. With the participation of Judith Engeler . S. 185. Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2018, ISBN 978-3-290-17910-6 ( google.de [accessed October 9, 2019]).
^ Katharina B. Springer, Ragnar K. Kinzelbach: The bird book by Conrad Gessner (1516-1565): An archive for avifaunistic data . S. 37. Springer Science & Business Media, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-85284-1 ( google.de [accessed October 9, 2019]).
↑ Historical commission at the royal. Academy of Sciences: Gesner, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 9 (= Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ). 1st edition. Duncker & Humblot, Munich / Leipzig 1879, p. 107 ( wikisource.org [accessed October 9, 2019]).
↑ Regula Weber-Steiner: Congratulatory fame and honor stories: Casual carmina for Zurich mayoral elections of the 17th century . S. 142. Peter Lang, 2006, ISBN 978-3-03910-388-1 ( google.de [accessed October 8, 2019]).
↑ E. Camenisch: The religious discussion in Baden and in the Bündner 1526: a contribution to the history of the Graubünden Reformation. In: Bündnerisches Monatsblatt: Journal for Graubünden history, regional and folklore, issue 10.1917, accessed on October 9, 2019 .
↑ Church Synod. Retrieved October 9, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).

personal data
SURNAME	Ammann, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ammianus, Ioannes Iacobus; Ammianus, Johannes J .; Ammianus, Johannes Jacobus; Ammianus, Joannes Jacobus; Ammann, Johannes Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss Evangelical Reformed clergyman and school principal
DATE OF BIRTH	1500
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 1573
Place of death	Zurich

[1] Family tree of Hans Ammann. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .

[2] Philipp Melanchthon, Heinz Scheible: MBW . P. 66. Frommann-Holzboog, 1977, ISBN 978-3-7728-2257-5 ( google.de [accessed on October 9, 2019]).

[3] Peter Opitz, Ernst Saxer: Zwingli read: Central texts of the Zurich reformer in today's German. With the participation of Judith Engeler . S. 185. Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2018, ISBN 978-3-290-17910-6 ( google.de [accessed October 9, 2019]).

[4] Katharina B. Springer, Ragnar K. Kinzelbach: The bird book by Conrad Gessner (1516-1565): An archive for avifaunistic data . S. 37. Springer Science & Business Media, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-85284-1 ( google.de [accessed October 9, 2019]).

[5] Historical commission at the royal. Academy of Sciences: Gesner, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 9 (= Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ). 1st edition. Duncker & Humblot, Munich / Leipzig 1879, p. 107 ( wikisource.org [accessed October 9, 2019]).

[6] Regula Weber-Steiner: Congratulatory fame and honor stories: Casual carmina for Zurich mayoral elections of the 17th century . S. 142. Peter Lang, 2006, ISBN 978-3-03910-388-1 ( google.de [accessed October 8, 2019]).

[7] E. Camenisch: The religious discussion in Baden and in the Bündner 1526: a contribution to the history of the Graubünden Reformation. In: Bündnerisches Monatsblatt: Journal for Graubünden history, regional and folklore, issue 10.1917, accessed on October 9, 2019 .

[8] Church Synod. Retrieved October 9, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).