Johann Rurer

Johann Rurer (* around 1480 in Bamberg , † 1542 in Ansbach ) was a Protestant theologian and reformer.

Life

Rurer emerged as one of the most active representatives of the Reformation movement in the Franconian area " below the mountains ". He was born in Bamberg , where his parents moved from Hollfeld in Upper Franconia . Nothing is known about his youth. He may have studied in Ingolstadt . In 1512 he received a vicarie at St. Gumbertstift in Ansbach . Margrave Casimir appointed the respected and proven man to be his court preacher.

As early as 1523 he preached in Ansbach in the Reformation sense. The author of the evangelical advice will be seen in him. On Palm Sunday 1525, Rurer held the first German Protestant church service with the Lord's Supper in "both forms". When Margrave Casimir wanted to introduce a new church order in his territory, Rurer tried to change his mind with his "Christian instruction of a pastor to his master".

This publication, published in 1526, which consisted of 40 points, caused a sensation and caused the author to be displeased by the sovereign. He therefore left Ansbach before he was arrested like his friend, the Margrave Chancellor Georg Vogler . Rurer was accepted by Duke Friedrich von Liegnitz , but was called back to his homeland after the death of Margrave Casimir and reinstated as a provost, while Andreas Althamer became the city ​​pastor.

Rurer took part in the Schwabach Convention in June 1528, chaired the meetings that began in mid-October, worked on the “Brandenburg-Nuremberg Church Order” of 1533 and showed initiative during the second visit to the Franconian areas. He was in the retinue of Margrave Georg at the Reichstag in Augsburg in 1530, where he also preached several times. Finally, the margrave sent him to Hagenau and Worms for the religious talks .

literature

• Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church , Volume 17, page 245
• K. Schornbaum: On the life story of the first Protestant pastor of Ansbach, Johann Rurer (Contributions to the Bavarian Church History 7, 1924, pages 148 and 211)
• K. Schornbaum: On the position of Margrave Casimir (Contributions to Bavarian Church History 9, 1926, page 245) (Appendix 1: "Analecta Rureriana")
• K. Schornbaum: The first Brandenburg church visitation (Contributions to Bavarian Church History 11, 1928, page 7)
• Max Döllner : Development history of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. C. W. Schmidt, Neustadt a. d. Aisch 1950, OCLC 42823280 ; New edition to mark the 150th anniversary of the Ph. C. W. Schmidt publishing house, Neustadt an der Aisch 1828–1978. Ibid 1978, ISBN 3-87707-013-2 , pp. 186 f.