Johann Jakob Breitinger (Antistes)

Johann Jakob Breitinger

Johann Jakob Breitinger (born April 19, 1575 in Zurich ; † April 1, 1645 ibid) was a Reformed pastor in Zurich, professor, antistes and politician.

Johann Jakob Breitinger studied in Herborn , Marburg , Franeker , Leiden , Heidelberg and Basel . He was pastor in Zumikon , Albisrieden and then professor of logic and rhetoric at the Collegium Humanitatis. Then pastor to St. Peter, the Grand Council elected him in 1613 as pastor at the Grossmünster and thus to the Antistes of the Zurich Church. As the sixth successor to Zwingli in the leadership of the Zurich Church, he introduced a day of prayer and was known for his sermons in which he a. a. the foreign military service complained bribery, simony and national debt. He called for the raising of discipline and custom among the people and a ban on the theater. He promotes elementary school, Sunday children's teaching and church singing in town and country and campaigned for poor relief and welfare. On behalf of the authorities, he carried out the first census of the Zurich area after the Reformation in 1634.

Theologically, he strictly represented the doctrine of predestination and the Second Helvetic Confession . After the initially negative attitude of the clergy, Breitinger was delegated to the Dordrecht Synod as a representative of Zurich 1618-19 due to the intercession of the Dutch diplomat Peter von Brederode and his support by Professor Caspar Waser . There he took a stand against the remonstrants . Johann Heinrich Waser , the son of the professor, accompanied him as his secretary .

During the Thirty Years War the Antistes represented the Swedish party in Zurich and collected 35,000 guilders to alleviate the war needs in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation . He saw the Catholic towns and the counter-Reformation Habsburg Austria as a danger to the reformed Zurich and advocated the modernization of the defense system and the construction of a new, third city ​​fortification .

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Breitinger, Johann Jakob. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 740.
• Leonhard Haas:  Breitinger, Johann Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 577 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Sundar Henny: "Scriptural relics and copies: Johann Jakob Breitinger (1575–1645)". In: ders .: Written by the body. The microcosm of Zurich and its self-testimonies in the 17th century , Böhlau, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50289-8 , pp. 73–118.
• Helmut Meyer: Johann Jakob Breitinger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Johann Kaspar Mörikofer:  Breitinger, Johann Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 294 f.
• Dietrich Seybold: Johann Jakob Breitinger . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 267 f.

Web links

• Publications by and about Johann Jakob Breitinger (1585–1645) in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Rudolf von Grebel. Antistes Johann Jakob Breitinger, 1575–1645. Zurich 1964.
2. ↑ Handbook of Swiss History, Zurich 1972. Vol. 1, p. 635.
3. ↑ Covering Comoedien or Spilen; by Joh. Jak. Breitinger. Zürych 1624. doi: 10.3931 / e-rara-9835
   Johann Jakob Breitinger's Bedencken von Comoedien or Spilen: the hostility to theater in old Zurich: edition, commentary, monograph / Thomas Brunnschweiler. Zurich German Studies, Vol. 17, 1989 
4. ^ Johann Kaspar Mörikofer. JJ Breitinger and Zurich: a cultural image from the time of the Thirty Years' War, Leipzig 1874.
5. ↑ Leonhard Meister.Kleine traveling through some Swiss cantons: An excerpt from scattered letters and Tagregistern.Basel- 1782 S. 117th
6. ↑ Norbert Domeisen. Caspar Waser ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (September 1, 1565 - September 9, 1625) 
7. ↑ Willem van Irhoven (ed.): Canones Synodi nationalis Dordracenae, ofte Oordeel des Synodi nationalis der Gereformeerde Kercken van de Vereenigde Nederlanden: ghehouden in Dordrecht, inden jare 1618 end 1619 . J. H. Vonk van Lynden, Utrecht 1752, pp. 23, 40, 69 and 95 ( Google Books ).
8. ↑ Barbara Schmid. The house book as a literary genre. The records of Johann Heinrich Wasers (1600–1669) and the Zurich house book tradition, in: Daphnis, 34 No. 3/4, Amsterdam 2005, pp. 603–656; Rudolf Rey. Mayor Johann Heinrich Waser 1600–1669. His career up to entering the civil service. Winterthur 1964. p. 55.
9. ↑ Norbert Domeisen. Mayor Johann Heinrich Waser (1600–1669) as a politician. A contribution to Swiss history in the 17th century. Zurich 1975 . P. 64. ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.