Johann Ketzmann

Johann Ketzmann (born July 13, 1487 in Schwabach , † August 23, 1542 in Nuremberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian and educator .

Life

Ketzmann completed his studies at the University of Ingolstadt as a Magister. He then worked in Styria and as a cantor in Buda , Hungary, under the theologian Simon Grynaeus , who only later became famous in Basel.

In 1517 Ketzmann took over the rectorate of the St. Lorenz School in Nuremberg from the humanist Johannes Cochlaeus . He became the first Protestant rector and remained so until his death. Among his students were the reformers Paul Eber and Ulrich Sitzinger .

From 1522 Andreas Osiander became pastor in St. Lorenz , who in 1525 became the main speaker of the Protestant side at the Nuremberg Religious Discussion and Ketzmann was active as a clerk.

In the dispute over the Hersbruck school regulations, he was appointed as an appraiser by the council of the imperial city of Nuremberg in 1535 . In 1541 Veit Dietrich invited Ketzmann and Michael Roting to a meeting with Professor Franz Magera from Patras .

Johann Ketzmann was the uncle of the theologian Petrus Ketzmann , he last lived in the Catherine's Monastery in Nuremberg and was buried on August 30, 1542 in the Catherine's Cemetery in Nuremberg.

literature

• Zeltner, Gustav Georg: A highly famous theologi DGGZPP learned letter to MGJS ad. Spir. S. Diac. Sen. Norinb. of the strange life of Johann Ketzmann, first Evangelical Rectoris of the Schul zu St. Laurentzen in Nuremberg. Johann Stein, Nuremberg 1734 ( Göttingen Digitization Center ).
• Carl Bertheau :  Ketzmann, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 688 f.
• Gerhard Hirschmann:  Ketzmann, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 559 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon, 2. Bang, H - Pe . Saur, Munich 2007, DNB  986865389 , p. 772 ( Google Books ).