Johann Stoltz

Johann Stoltz , other naming conventions: Johannes Stolsius, Stoltzius, Stolz or Stols (* around 1514 in Wittenberg ; † July 15, 1556 in Weimar ) was a German Lutheran theologian, philosopher and Thuringian reformer.

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Stolz was born the son of a saddler in Wittenberg. After attending school in the winter semester of 1533/34, he enrolled at the university in his hometown of Wittenberg . After completing his master's degree on September 18, 1539, he was ordained as a deacon in Jessen . However, he did not get to this position. He was appointed to the Albertine court in Dresden and took over educational tasks with the later Elector August of Saxony , whom he taught. When he returned to the University of Wittenberg for further studies in 1540, he was proposed in December 1543, alongside Johannes Aurifaber , for the professorship at the pedagogy of the artistic faculty, entered the senate of the philosophical faculty on January 8, 1544 and received through advocacy the corresponding professorship of the Elector Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous in 1544. In that capacity he had been Dean of the Philosophical Faculty in the winter semester of 1545/46. His lectures were largely influenced by Philipp Melanchthon .

Due to the Schmalkaldic War he left Wittenberg and became court preacher in Weimar on May 31, 1547 . Here he taught the sons of the former Elector Johann Friedrich II. The Middle , Johann Wilhelm I and Johann Friedrich III. the younger . At court he advocated that ordinations take place in Weimar, and as court preacher he had a significant influence on the Thuringian church leadership. As a sought-after theologian, Stoltz participated in the Weimar report on the Augsburg Interim and the Leipzig Articles , which were rejected, and participated in the visitations. In 1552 he traveled to Königsberg to take part in the fruitless settlement negotiations for the Osiander dispute , where he took a position and rejected the teachings of Osiander.

In 1554/55 he was involved in the church visitation in Thuringia and had significant influence on the publication of the Jena Luther edition. When Stoltz died in 1556, a refutation of Johann Pfeffinger's doctrine of free will appeared in 1558 with a preface by his long-time advisor and successor as court preacher, Johannes Aurifaber .

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• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Max Senf: Bacca. and Magister from 1502-1560
• German Biographical Archive (DBA): II 1273,214
• Robert Supperich: Reformatorenlexikon . Publishing house Gerd Mohn Gütersloh ISBN 3-579-00123-X
• Helmar Junghans: Directory of the rectors, vice-rectors, deans, professors and castle church preachers of Leucorea from the summer semester 1536 to the winter semester 1574/75. In: Irene Dingel , Günther Wartenberg : Georg Major (1502-1574) - A theologian of the Wittenberg Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2005, ISBN 3374023320