Johannes Gantner

Johannes Gantner (* around 1530 in Chur ; † July 1605 there ) was a Swiss Reformed pastor . The so-called Gantner trade is named after him and the disputes surrounding him .

Life

Johannes Gantner was born around 1530 in Chur in the canton of Graubünden , where he probably attended school. From 1554 to 1558 he studied at the University of Basel . In the same year the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod accepted him and he took over pastoral positions in the villages of Castiel , Calfreisen and Lüen , where he was the first pastor to be passed down by name. Since Gantner was considered a good preacher, he took over the pastoral position in his hometown Chur, where both city pastors had died in the plague epidemic in 1566.

The Gantner trade

His colleague Tobias Egli , who was appointed to another pastorate in Chur, was Gantner's partner in the dispute. The reason for the dispute was the supporter of the Anabaptist movement and bookseller Georg Frell . Since Gantner had defended Frell, his employment as a pastor in Chur was withdrawn. He was also expelled from the Graubünden Synod. This dispute went down in history as the Gantner dispute . Gantner's successor was Ulrich Campell , who in turn was partially involved in the dispute.

The decision to fire Gantner was not without controversy. Some demanded that he be reinstated and Egli dismissed. In July 1571 the Synod dealt with the case. The result was a year-long suspension of Gantner, against which he raised an objection before the Bundestag of the Three Leagues , which was rejected in November 1571.

In the next few years he remained calm and ran a farm until 1586. When he returned to Chur that year, circumstances had changed as his enemies had since passed away. His sons caused the Synod to resume Gantner in 1586. At the same time he became a pastor in Maienfeld . In 1596 he was called back to Chur as pastor. He held this position as Antistes at the Martinskirche until he died in July 1605.

literature

• Erich Wenneker :  Gantner, Johannes. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 604-607.
• Ulrich Campell : Historia Raetica, ed.Plac. Plattne (Volume 2; Basel 1890)
• Petrus Domenicus Rosius à Porta : Historia Reformationis ecclesiarum Raeticarum (Chur and Lindau 1771–1777)
• Johann Franz Fetz : The umbrella bailiwick of the Chur monastery and the Reformation (Lucerne 1866)