Johannes Braun (collegiate vicar)

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Johannes Braun (* around 1450 ; after † 1516 in Eisenach ) was a German Roman Catholic priest , vicar and teacher at the St. Georg parish school.

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Little is known about his life. Most of the facts are related to the person of Martin Luther . In 1470 Braun was enrolled at the University of Erfurt . He became a secular or folk priest and vicar in the Marienstift of the Augustinian Canons in Eisenach. Braun was a fatherly friend for Martin Luther during his study stay and also later. Luther attended the parish school at St. Georgen in Eisenach from 1498 to 1501 and regularly took part in meetings at von Braun's house. At these meetings Luther got to know a happy piety. So songs and motets were sung among the participants. In a letter dated April 22, 1507, Luther invited him to his primacy in the church of the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt .

It remains controversial whether Braun actually gave the advice to Luther's entry into the monastery on Monday, July 15, 1505 , as occasionally claimed , since this fact has so far been completely unconfirmed. .

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Heiko A. Oberman: Luther: Man between God and the Devil. Pantheon Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-6411-8417-9
  2. ↑ Lyndal Roper : The man Martin Luther - The biography. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-066088-6 , p. 62.
  3. ^ Walter Kolb: Luther's Wittenberg World: The Reformer's Family, Friends, Followers, and Foes. Book collections on Project MUSE, Fortress Press, Minneapolis MN 2018, ISBN 978-1-5064-464-00 , p. 11
  4. ↑ Bernhard Lohse: Luther's theology in its historical development and in its systematic context. Research on systematic and ecumenical theology, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 978-3-5255-2196-0 , p. 44
  5. ↑ Christoph Burger: Tradition and a new beginning: Martin Luther in his early years. Vol. 79 Late Middle Ages, Humanism, ReformationMohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-1615-3057-9 , p. 37
  6. ↑ In June of the same year 1505 Luther, worried about the consequences of a duel or "honor killings" of a fellow student Hieronymus Buntz, went to his protector and friend Johannes Braun to ask him for advice. He recommended that he enter a monastery to avoid the legal consequences of the affair.
  7. ^ Kurt Dietrich Schmidt: Church history. S. 276.
    Hans-Dieter Göring: The sick Martin Luther (part 1). In: Ärzteblatt Sachsen-Anhalt, 10/2017. Retrieved January 28, 2018 . Dietrich Demme: Martin Luther. His youth and student days 1483 - 1505. A documentary representation with 14 plates and 1 folding map. (PDF) In: Verlag Dietrich Emme, Regensburg 1986, ISBN 3-9800661-2-6 . Retrieved November 20, 2018 . 9.5 MB Dietrich Emme: On the importance of biographical Luther research. In: Remigius Bäumer, Alma v. Stockhausen (Hrsg.): Luther and the consequences for the intellectual history: Festschrift for Theobald Beer. Gustav Siewerth Academy, Weilheim-Bierbronnen (southern Black Forest) 1992, ISBN 3-928273-98-1 , pp. 31-40 (PDF; 5.9 MB). Dietrich Emme: Why did Martin Luther become a monk? MDR Monthly Bulletin for German Law, 32nd year, 5/1978, pp. 378-380. According to Dietrich Emme (1978), Martin Luther, who had started his law studies on May 20, 1505 at the University of Erfurt, had a fight with his friend Hieronymus Buntz. Unfortunately, Buntz died in the duel. In June of the same year, 1505, Luther, worried about the consequences of this "honor killing", went to his protector and friend Johannes Braun, a secular or folk priest in Eisenach, to ask his advice. He recommended that he enter a monastery to avoid the legal consequences of the affair. An initially anonymous work Tractatulus de hiis qui ad ecclesias confugiunt tam iudicibus secularibus quam ecclesie rectoribus monasteriorum prelatis perutilis. “About those who take refuge in the church; very useful for secular judges as well as for heads of a church and prelates of monasteries ”appeared in Landshut in 1517 by Johann Weyssenburger under his name; but it remains a matter of dispute whether Luther was also the author. [1] . According to other interpretations, one of the 17 candidates, Hieronymus Buntz, died of pleurisy ( pleurisy ) following his master's degree . See critical consideration of Dietrich Emme's position in Josef Pilvousek: Martin Luther in a Catholic view - today. P. 6–7, accessed on November 3, 2018 (PDF; 60 kB).
  8. ↑ Dietmar v. d Pfordten: great thinkers of Erfurt and the Erfurt University. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-89244-510-4 , p. 172, footnote 19
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German collegiate vicar in Eisenach and friend of Martin Luther
DATE OF BIRTH before 1450
DATE OF DEATH after 1516
Place of death Eisenach