Johann Stammel

Johann Stammel, also Meinertzhagen (* around 1519 in Meinerzhagen , † around 1549 in Bonn ) was a Protestant theologian and reformer .

Life

As Minority in Cologne , he studied there and received his doctorate in 1535 for licentiate . During the time of the so-called Cologne Reformation, his sermons caused a sensation. Kaspar Hedio , who was in Cologne in 1542, describes him as a "non vulgaris concionator". In December 1543 he had to leave Cologne, went to see Bishop Hermann von Wied and became a Protestant preacher in Bonn.

Around this time he was also preaching in Linz on the Rhine . Nothing has survived of his sermons, which must have had a strong impact. On the other hand, his name is linked to a book that has exerted a strong influence for decades in the Rhineland and as far as Holland : “The Evangelical Citizen's Handbook”. This was already printed by Arnt von Aich in 1529/30 .

The content consisted of short doctrines and biblical sayings. In the case of the Ten Commandments and the Our Father, the editor followed Martin Luther's Small Catechism . When Stammel reissued it in Bonn in 1544, he expanded it with several additions. The title page reads “increased and improved by Mr. JM, Licentiate, servant of the churches in Bonn”. The Bonn hymn book may also have been arranged by him or even edited by him alone.

literature

• C. Krafft: In: Theological work of the Rhenish preachers Directory on the source of the history of the Protestant movement on the Lower Rhine. Elberfeld. 1, 1874, p. 12 and 2, 1876, p. 86.
• H. Rothert: Contributions to the Westphalian catechism history. In: Yearbook of the Association for Westphalian Church History. 7, 1905, pp. 161-165.
• H. Rothert: Church history of the county of Mark. Gütersloh 1913, p. 286.
• W.-J. Kooimann: Luther's Kerklied in de Nederlanden. Amsterdam 1943.
• E. Mülhaupt: Rhenish church history. Düsseldorf 1970, p. 127.