Johann Mantel I.

Johann Mantel I. (* around 1468 in Nuremberg ; † 1530 in Elgg ) was a German Reformed theologian and reformer.

Life

Mantel was of advanced age when he joined the Reformation . He studied in Ingolstadt until he achieved the degree of Baccalaureus . He then joined the Augustinian order in Nuremberg and continued studying as a monk. In 1496 he obtained his master's degree there . In Tübingen he was under the personal influence of his prior Johann von Staupitz . A few years later he was made head of the Nuremberg monastery himself.

His connection to Staupitz was so strong that he followed him to Wittenberg , where he received his doctorate in theology on April 29, 1507 . His teaching was well recognized at the new university and he represented Staupitz during his absence. Finally he followed a call to Stuttgart and left Wittenberg. Staupitz will have agreed to this change, especially since he was able to serve him well as a preacher in Stuttgart with the conflict that ruled the order.

Four years later he came to Strasbourg where he worked in the Studium generale of the order. Here in the decisive years of the Reformation he will have been won over to Martin Luther's teaching. When he took over the post of preacher in Stuttgart in 1520, he had the council certify that he would protect him in all cases. Comrades-in-law soon gathered around the preacher of the new faith.

He was also in contact with Michael Stiefel in Esslingen am Neckar and no less with Johannes Lonicer . When the authorities asked him to hold back more, he was not warned. He was arrested and imprisoned at Hohennagold Castle on the pretext that he was inciting the people to resist the authorities . According to Johann Eberlin von Günzburg , the population must have been very angry about his capture . The Zurich Council stood up for him in vain.

The Austrian government only released it under the threat of the Peasants' War . But the long imprisonment had weakened him so much that he could no longer actively participate in the confrontation. He went to a rural pastorate, married, and devoted himself to his family and his community. When the Margrave of Baden enforced the restoration of Catholicism, he and twenty other pastors resigned from office. As a refugee he was taken in by Matthäus Zell in Strasbourg and placed in Elgg in the canton of Zurich , where he died.

literature

• Julius Hartmann:  Mantel, Johann (Reformed theologian) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 250.
• Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church . Volume 24, page 59
• Karl T. Keim: Swabian Reformation history up to the Augsburg Reichstag . Fues Verlag Tübingen 1855.
• Georg Buchwald: On the Wittenberg town and university history . Wigand, Leipzig 1893.
• Gustav Bossert: The Interim in Württemberg (writings of the Association for Reformation History 46/47). Niemeyer, Halle 1893.
• Gustav Bossert: D. Johannes Mantels end of life and the marriage process of Michael Back and his wife . In: Archive for the history of the Reformation . Vol. 12 (1915), pp. 161-204.