Johannes Glotter

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Johannes Glotter (also Gloter, Glotherus ; * late 15th century in Waldshut ; † before 1542) was a humanist and Reformed theologian .

Life

The year of birth of Johannes Glotter is unknown. The Glotter family came from Freiburg and was widespread in southern Germany in the 15th century. After Philippe Mieg and other authors, Glotter came from Waldshut. In 1516 Johannes Glotter was enrolled at the University of Basel . A more recent publication from 2005, on the other hand, attributes an origin from the wine village of Merdingen am Kaiserstuhl due to a simultaneous entry in the Freiburg register of 1516 Glotter . There is no further evidence of Glotter's work in Freiburg. Due to the widespread use of the name and the fact that several Reformed theologians attended the Waldshut Latin School in Glotter's generation, there is still much to be said for the previously assumed origin from Waldshut.

In 1519 Johannes Glotter is mentioned by name in a letter from Oswald Myconius . In 1520 Glotter worked as a schoolmaster and chaplain at St. Martin in Basel, pursued humanistic studies and entered into correspondence with Ulrich Zwingli . Glotters relations with the humanist and the Reformation close Paul Constantin Phrygio as well as with the Basel reformer Johannes Oekolampad got him a pastor's position in the imperial city Mulhouse in 1526, as their representative he participated in the Baden disputation in 1526 . In 1527 Glotter resigned from office , probably due to involvement in the uprising of the Alsatian peasants . The further work and fate of Glotter is in the dark. An epigram of Glotter was printed in 1528 in the edition of the epigrams of Johannes Atrocianus from Basel . The earlier assumption that Glotter had taken over a pastorate in Bern was refuted by Michael Bärmann in 2005. Indirect sources allow the conclusion that Glotter died before the winter of 1541/42.

Apart from epigrams and letters, Glotter left behind no other major works. Today's interest in his person stems from his network of relationships in the early 20s of the 16th century, which included the leading figures of Swiss and Alsatian humanism and the Reformation.

literature

  • Michael Bärmann: Johannes Glotter. A clergyman of the Reformation in the context of humanism . In: Alemannisches Jahrbuch 2005/2006, published by the Alemannisches Institut Freiburg i.Br., Freiburg, 2008, pp. 317–363.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter-Johannes Schuler: Notare Südwestdeutschlands. A prosopographical directory for the period from 1300 to approx. 1520 . Kohlhammer, 1987, Volume 1, p. 145.
  2. ^ Philippe Mieg: La Réformation à Mulhouse .
  3. ↑ Michael Bärmann: Johannes Glotter. A clergyman of the Reformation in the context of humanism . In: Alemannisches Jahrbuch 2005/2006, published by the Alemannisches Institut Freiburg i.Br., Freiburg 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Glotter, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glother, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Reformed theologian close to humanism
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldshut
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century