Johann Palfy from Kanizsay

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Johann Palfy von Kanizsay (* 1585 ; † April 9, 1641 in Pápa ) was a Hungarian Protestant theologian and Calvinist superintendent "across the Danube" at the time of the Counter Reformation .

Life

Johann Palfy von Kanizsay was born in 1585 to Protestant parents. He was educated in the Protestant schools of Fertőszentmiklós , Csepreg and Kőszeg .

In 1608 he became a schoolmaster in Sárvár . From 1612 to 1626 he was a Calvinist preacher, senior and district notary in Pápa. Eva Popel- Lobkowitz finally appointed him to the Batthyány court in Güssing , where he arrived on February 8, 1626. There he abolished the host of the Mass and replaced it with ordinary bread. In 1629, at the General Synod in Körmend, the Calvinist was elected superintendent across the Danube , but left in Güssing at the request of Eva Popel-Lobkowitz.

As a senior in Güssing, he was able to hold back the disintegration of Protestantism at the time of the Counter Reformation for a while. That changed with the conversion of the later ruler of Güssing Ádám Batthyány to the Catholic faith. On April 13, 1630, the provost of Steinamanger Stefan Gyóri took the keys of the Güssing church from the Protestants by order of Batthyánys. On September 13th of the same year Kanizsay gave a speech against the opponents of the Protestants. Batthyány was so angry about this that he wrote to Kanizsay in a letter with the words “I will no longer tolerate the preacher Johann in Güssing, neither anywhere else on my property. Because if I meet him there it will be bad for him. ”Thereupon Kanizsay left Güssing on December 14, 1633 and returned to Pápa.

But here too, Vice-captain Georf Hosszutoti let him know that he was not welcome because it was feared that Kanizsay might want to set up a preacher's seat. In 1636 Kanizsay became a military chaplain in Kleinkomorn . He died on April 9, 1641 in Pápa.

literature

  • Gratian readers: Article in the Güssinger Zeitung. Güssinger Zeitung , Volume 16, pp. 182ff.
  • Lisbeth Pumm: The Güssing Monastery Library. Diploma thesis at the University of Vienna. Vienna 1992.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Jandrisevits: Certificates and documents about Burgenland and the surrounding area , 1932.1936, 4th volume, page 214
personal data
SURNAME Kanizsay, Johann Palfy von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION evangelical clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH 1585
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1641
Place of death Father