Johann Weiß (theologian)

Johann Weiß , also Johannes Weiß , Johann Weiße and Johann Albinus (* around 1498 in Kronach ; † August 2, 1561 in Meißen ), was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Weiß enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 1511 , where he became a Baccalaureus in the winter semester of 1513 . On May 1, 1520, he moved to the University of Wittenberg , became parish priest in Kronach and in September 1539 went to Meißen as pastor and acting superintendent . After Petrus Blesanus had filled the position in 1540 , he went to Dresden in the spring of 1541 as court preacher to Duke Heinrich the Pious and Moritz of Saxony , initially as deputy to the sick Paul Lindenau , and after his recovery returned to Meißen as a pastor.

After buying a house with his wife and seven children in Meißen in 1542, he became chaplain to Duke Moritz, with whom he was in Hungary and in 1543 in France . Due to the duke's polemics, he resigned his office and retired to Meißen, where he was a preacher at the prince's school in Sankt Afra . Since he had spoken out against the Leipzig articles since the beginning of 1549 , he was attacked and went to Braunschweig in 1551 .

In the spring of 1552 he had August of Saxony plead for mercy from Moritz von Sachsen, who had meanwhile advanced to electoral prince , who reinstated him as field preacher. Then he was also present when he was fatally wounded in 1553 and gave the funeral speech in Freiberg Cathedral . From 1552 he took over the office of superintendent in Meissen, cathedral preacher and member of the consistory, which he held until his death.

literature

• Heinz Scheible: Melanchthon's correspondence . People 11, Volume 1, p. 52.
• Reinhold Grünberg: Saxon pastor . Freiberg 1940.
• Johann Christoph Beckmann: Historia of the principality of Anhalt . 1-3, Zerbst 1710.
• Hans-Joachim Böttcher : The Turkish Wars in the Mirror of Saxon Biographies , Gabriele Schäfer Verlag, Herne 2019, ISBN 978-3-944487-63-2 , pp. 44, 54–55.

predecessor	Office	successor
Paul Lindenau	Court preacher in Dresden 1539–1541	Christian Schütz