Johann Rudolf Stumpf

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Johann Rudolf Stumpf (born August 28, 1530 in Bubikon , † January 19, 1592 in Zurich ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and local researcher .

Life

family

Johann Rudolf Stumpf was the son of the theologian and historian Johannes Stumpf and his first wife Regula, daughter of Heinrich Brennwald .

He married on May 9, 1553 Margaretha (* January 1539; † February 1586), daughter of the bailiff Esaias Röuchli († 1557), in his first marriage; they had a daughter together:

  • Dorothea Stumpf (born February 25, 1554 (baptism date) in Kilchberg ; † January 25, 1619 ibid), married to Hans Rudolf Abegg (1550–1599).

In his second marriage he was married to Margaretha Jäger from 1586.

Career

In 1547 Johann Rudolf Stumpf brought the dedication copies of his father's chronicle to the governments of the original cantons .

On the recommendation of the reformer Heinrich Bullinger to Ambrosius Blarer , he attended school in Constance in 1545 and studied theology in Zurich at the Collegium Carolinum .

In March 1549 he traveled to England with the English exile and later Bishop of Gloucester , John Hooper . With a recommendation from Heinrich Bullinger to Bartholomew Traheron, MP for Barnstaple, and to Peter Martyr , he attended lectures at Christ Church College in Oxford from May 1549 to at least May 1550, together with Johann Konrad Ulmer and later with Christoph Froschauer the Younger ; as a foreigner he did not let in which matrikel Enter; during his stay in Oxford he was in correspondence with Heinrich Bullinger.

After being called back by his father, he returned to Switzerland with Froschauer in October 1551, and in January 1552 he met his father in Stammheim .

After he was accepted into the Zurich church service in 1552, he became vicar in Albisrieden on December 13, 1552 , before he became pastor in Kilchberg in 1553 the following year; In 1583 he was appointed dean of the sea chapter. In 1585 he became pastor at the Zurich Predigerkirche and in 1586, as successor to Ludwig Lavater , Antistes in Zurich. During his work in Zurich he worked with Heinrich Bullinger and Ludwig Lavater to convert the Anabaptists .

In 1566 he received the Defensor Pacis des Marsilius of Padua , a work from the time of the struggle between papacy and empire for European supremacy, which only unfolded its world-historical impact in the age of the Reformation; the work was a copy of the first edition owned by Heinrich Bullinger.

He was a childhood friend of the pastor and lexicographer Josua Maaler .

He was with Paul Floren and, shortly before his death, in correspondence with Abraham Musculus (1534–1591).

Writing

In 1586, Johann Rudolf Stumpf re-edited his father's historical and topographical description of the Swiss Confederation and left behind numerous unprinted sermons, translations from Isocrates , reports and submissions and a collection of loci communes . He also made a copy of Ludwig Lavater's concept of a Reformation story from 1559.

Fonts (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family tree of Margaretha Röuchli. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
  2. ^ Heinrich Bullinger: Letters of the year 1545 . Theological Verlag Zürich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-290-17664-8 ( google.de [accessed on August 1, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Life: Life and Selected Writings of the Fathers and Founders of the Reformed Church, ed. by JW Baum [and others] introduced by KR Hagenbach . 1858 ( google.de [accessed August 1, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Urs Bernhard Leu, Christian Scheidegger: The Zurich Anabaptists 1525-1700 . Theological Verlag Zürich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-290-17426-2 ( google.de [accessed August 1, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Martin Germann, Konrad Pellikan: The Reformed Abbey Library at the Grossmünster Zurich in the 16th century and the beginnings of the modern bibliography: Reconstruction of the book inventory and its origin, the book layout and the library room: with edition of the inventory 1532/1551 by Conrad Pellikan . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994, ISBN 978-3-447-03482-1 ( google.de [accessed August 1, 2020]).
  6. ^ A Franciscan monk from Villingen becomes a bookbinder in Zurich (Christian Sieber) - Geschichts- und Heimatverein Villingen eV Accessed on August 1, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ Basel University Library / Letter to Abraham Musculus . 1590 ( e-manuscripta.ch [accessed August 1, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Musculus, Abraham. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Gottlieb Emanuel von Haller: Library of Swiss History and All Parts: so related to it . Hallersche buchhandlung, 1786 ( google.de [accessed on August 1, 2020]).
  10. ^ Christian Moser: Historical conception and methodology: documents on the Zurich historiography of the Reformation age. 2006, accessed August 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Stump, Johann Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stumpf, Johannes Rudolf; Stump, Johann Rudolph; Stump, Johan Rudolph; Stumpf, Johannes Rudolph; Stumpff, Johann Rudolph; Stumpff, Johann Rudolf;
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Bubikon
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1592
Place of death Zurich