Johannes Karg

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Johannes Karg

Johannes Karg, also: Parsimonius; (* January 7, 1525 in Augsburg ; † December 24, 1588 in Hirsau ) was a German Lutheran theologian, historian and educator.

Life

The son of the shoemaker Michael Karg (1497–1577) and his wife Felizitas (1500–1586) attended school in his hometown as a child. As a gifted student, Karg was able to attend the local high school near St. Anna in 1536 thanks to the support of the Mayor of Augsburg, Wolfgang Rehlinger . He obtained a municipal scholarship, after which he enrolled at the University of Tübingen on April 15, 1539 . He found acceptance in the house of Johann Hildebrand, completed the basic studies at the philosophical faculty, made the acquaintance of Jakob Andreae and received the academic degree of a master's degree on February 3, 1542 .

When he returned to Augsburg, he was able to turn to theological studies with the support of the city. To do this, he went to the University of Wittenberg on December 21, 1542 . In Wittenberg he attended the lectures of Martin Luther , Philipp Melanchthon , Caspar Cruciger the Elder and Johannes Bugenhagen . After attending Luther's funeral in the Wittenberg Castle Church , Karg went back to his hometown, where he took up a position as a deacon at the Augsburg Cathedral on July 22, 1546 by a council decision and thus worked with Wolfgang Musculus .

As his loyal student, he had to leave his hometown in 1548 due to the Augsburg interim . He went to Basel with Musculus , where he first secured his existence with private lectures on music and languages ​​and attended the Hebrew lectures of Sebastian Münster . After the situation in Augsburg had calmed down, he returned there and built a private school that was attended by the children of financially strong parents. However, since he did not run his school according to the regulations of the interim, he had to close it again and left the city at the end of 1550. Via Leipheim he reached Tübingen , where he found support from Jacob Andreae.

In 1552 he was employed by Christoph von Württemberg as 1st deacon at St. George's Church in Tübingen, where Johann Isenmann was the chief pastor. In 1556 he was appointed superintendent and pastor in Blaubeuren , in 1558 he went to Cannstatt in the same position and signed the confession of the night supper in this office on December 19, 1559 . Since he had earned the trust of his employer in his theological work, he was called to Stuttgart as court preacher in 1559 and appointed to the ducal council of Württemberg. In this capacity he taught the duke's children.

After he had repeatedly turned down prelatures , after the death of his employer in 1569 he accepted the prelature of the abbot of Hirsau monastery, which gave him a seat in the Württemberg state parliament. In addition to the administration of the monastery and its monastery school, he dealt with the writing of pedagogical writings and published a hymn book. Yet the administrative work did not seem to satisfy him; Intrigues and intrigues made sure of that. In the last years of his life, Karg dealt with the history of the Hirsau Monastery and world history issues. He had writings from the 12th century available from the monastery library. To date, his work has not been fully processed.

Fonts

  • Rudimenta hebraeae grammaticae
  • The true presence of the body and blood of Christ at the sacrament
  • Formae aliquot seu exempla benedicendi nuptias
  • De arithmetica
  • Teutsche Musica Parsimonij
  • Onomasticum historicum (12 important volumes in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel)
  • Chronologia (unprinted)

family

Karg married Maria († 1557) on January 28, 1550, the adopted daughter of the Latin schoolmaster Menrath Vogt and Clara Wolf from Augsburg. In November 1557 he married Sara, the daughter of the captain and powder maker Johann Buck and his wife Ottilie (1509–1587) from Augsburg. The children are known from these marriages:

  • Johannes called Hans (* 1551 Leipheim)
  • Maria (* 1557)
  • Christoph (1565–1580)
  • Michael (1559–1578)
  • David (1574-1580)
  • Johannes Christoph († 1585)
  • Judith (1576–1619) married to M. Wilhelm Gmelin (1573–1635)

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personal data
SURNAME Karg, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parsimonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, historian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1525
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1588
Place of death Hirsau