Johannes Frog

Johannes Frosch , also Rana (* around 1485 in Bamberg , † around 1533 in Nuremberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian and reformer.

Life

Origin and youth are not known. Around 1504 Frosch came to Erfurt to study. In Toulouse he joins the Carmelite order. In April 1514 he came to Wittenberg . Since he had already studied earlier, he was admitted to the doctorate of the licentiate on January 29, 1516. The following year we find him as prior in the Carmelite monastery of St. Anna in Augsburg . When Martin Luther came to Augsburg for interrogation before Cardinal Thomas Cajetan on October 7, 1518 , he first stayed with the Augustinians, but then went to his friend Frosch, who entertained him deliciously. Frosch accompanied Luther to the interrogation.

After Luther's departure, he followed him to Wittenberg, where he received his doctorate on November 21, 1518. The city council of Augsburg called him back in 1522 to work with Urbanus Rhegius and Stephan Agricola for the Reformation . At Christmas 1524 he shared the Lord's Supper with Rhegius for the first time under both guises and married on March 25, 1525. In 1527 he disputed with the Anabaptists and opposed the ideas of the Zwinglians. As the council increasingly consisted of the same, the clashes grew more intense.

Under imperial pressure, Frosch was released during the Diet of Augsburg in 1530 . But since he was supported by Luther, he was able to resume his work in Augsburg in 1531. In the course of the replacement of the preacher's posts with Strasbourg theologians who represented Bucer's position on the question of the Last Supper, the difficulties with the council worsened. When this frog forbade preaching on controversial theological issues of the Last Supper, he submitted his release and went to Nuremberg. German psalm songs by Frosch are also known.

literature

• Matthias Simon:  Frog, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 663 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Carl Bertheau:  Frog, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 147 f.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Johannes Frosch. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 145.
• GA Will: Nuremberg scholars lexicon . Altdorf 1795.
• G. Uhlhorn: Urbanus Rhegius . Elberfeld 1860.
• R. Roth: Reformation history of Augsburg . Leipzig 1902.
• M. Simon: Johannes Frosch . In: Pictures of life from the Bavarian Swabia . Volume 2, 1953, page 181
• M. Simon: Nuremberg Pastors' Book . Nuremberg 1965, 362.