Johann Nikolaus Weislinger

Johann Nikolaus Weislinger, portrait engraving 1749. The Latin inscriptions praise him as “athleta” and “gigas” on the spiritual battlefield.

Double-page title of Weislinger's most widespread work Friss, Vogel, or die (1726 edition):
“Friß Vogel / or die! That is: A / because of the important faith = Articul des Christianity by the true churches / with all uncatholic predicants / severely carried out examination and torture / where they (Krafft whose irrefutable testimonies of the Heil. Schrifft / deß Heil. Augustini / deß Luthers / and Augspurgischen Conference) finally forced to confess: Or: That God is a liar / u. Christ a false prophet / consequently not the true Messiah Or: That the Roman = Catholic Church / and the same teaching / alone are true / infallible / and salvific. "

Johann Nikolaus Weislinger (born September 17, 1691 in Püttlingen , † August 29, 1755 in Kappelrodeck ) was a German Roman Catholic pastor and controversial theologian .

Life

Weislinger studied at the Jesuit Academy in Strasbourg, founded in 1701 . From 1711 he was a private lecturer there. In 1713 he went to study philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, which was also run by Jesuits at the time, and then went back to Strasbourg to study theology with the aim of being ordained a priest . In 1726 he became pastor in Waldulm , in 1730 in Kappelrodeck. In 1750 he retired due to illness.

Weislinger's theological interest was in anti-Protestant polemics . He wrote his most successful work Friss, Vogel, or die on ecclesiology as early as 1722 as a private scholar without consecration or office, which he refers to in the foreword. His style is often sharp and aggressive, which he justifies by referring to Luther's style. His Catholic contemporaries regarded him as a "giant" ( gigas ) on the denominational battlefield. In the Lutheran and Reformed camp, he was at least noticed, as quotations and replies show. The controversy between Weislinger and the Lutheran pastor in Nieder-Wiesen, Johann Philipp Fresenius, caused a stir .

Weislinger's text Huttenus delarvatus, published in Augsburg and Konstanz in 1730, is a warranted message from Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523), the author or author of the epistolarum obscurorum virorum. was placed on the index of forbidden books by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1732 .

literature

Irmgard Bezzel: The controversial theologian Johann Nikolaus Weislinger (1691–1755) as a book collector and librarian . In: Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens 13, 1973, Sp. 1435-1460
Gerhard Kaller : Weislinger, Johann Nikolaus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 639-640.

Web links

Commons : Johann Nikolaus Weislinger - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by and about Johann Nikolaus Weislinger in the German Digital Library
Johann Nikolaus Weislinger in the database of the state bibliography of Baden-Württemberg
Patricius Schlager : Article Johann Nikolaus Weislinger . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 15, New York 1912

Individual evidence

↑ here in the meaning "either"
↑ digitized version
↑ Date at the end of the foreword to the first edition
↑ See: Michael Weise: From "Apostle of Satan" to "Father in Faith". The Catholic view of Luther as a mirror of denominational togetherness and opposition , in: Wichmann-Jahrbuch 58/59 (2018/2019) NF 15, pp. 65–94, here: pp. 81f.
↑ Weislinger, Johann Nikolaus. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 938 (French, digitized ).

personal data
SURNAME	Weislinger, Johann Nikolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Weislinger, Ioannes Nicolaus; Weißlinger, Johann Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Roman Catholic pastor and controversial theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	17th September 1691
PLACE OF BIRTH	Püttlingen
DATE OF DEATH	August 29, 1755
Place of death	Kappelrodeck

[1] re in the meaning "either"

[2] tized version

[3] Date at the end of the foreword to the first edition

[4] See: Michael Weise: From "Apostle of Satan" to "Father in Faith". The Catholic view of Luther as a mirror of denominational togetherness and opposition , in: Wichmann-Jahrbuch 58/59 (2018/2019) NF 15, pp. 65–94, here: pp. 81f.

[5] Weislinger, Johann Nikolaus. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 938 (French, digitized ).