Johannes Magirus (theologian, 1537)

Johannes Magirus (oil portrait by Gabriel Karg , 1604 Tübingen Professorengalerie )

Johannes Magirus (born March 26, 1537 in Backnang ; † July 4, 1614 in Cannstatt ) was a German Lutheran theologian and composer .

The son of the carter Johannes Koch (1500–1544) later translated the family name into Greek: Magirus ( ancient Greek μάγειρος mágeiros 'cook').

After studying theology at the University of Tübingen , Magirus became a deacon in Stuttgart in 1559 and dean there in 1561. In 1562 he moved to Vaihingen an der Enz as dean and in 1567 became prelate ( general superintendent ) and abbot in Maulbronn monastery . Finally, in 1578, as provost at the collegiate church and clergyman in the consistory in Stuttgart, he reached the highest spiritual office in the Evangelical Church in Württemberg , which he held until his death. In addition to sermons, he published pamphlets against Roman Catholic and Calvinist theologians.

From his first marriage to Anna Fritz (* 1536) he had seven children, including Johannes Magirus (1560–1626), also a Protestant theologian, Jakob Magirus (1564–1624, abbot in Lorch ) and David Magirus (1566–1635, professor in Tübingen ).

literature

• Theodor Schott :  Johannes Magirus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 60 f.
• Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Troß:  Magirus (Württemberg family). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , pp. 655-658 ( digitized version ).
• Carsten Kottmann:  Magirus, Johannes. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 40, Bautz, Nordhausen 2019, ISBN 978-3-95948-426-8 , Sp. 778-783.

Web links

• Works by and about Johannes Magirus  in the German Digital Library
• Family data from the Martinszeller Family Foundation .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Ulrich Planck: The social rise from the peasant and artisan class to the respectability of Old Württemberg. In: Journal of Agricultural History and Agricultural Sociology, 01/2000, p. 22.