Johannes Magirus (theologian, 1560)
Johannes Magirus (born August 20, 1560 in Stuttgart ; † June 12, 1626 in Bebenhausen Monastery ) was a German Protestant pastor and abbot .
Magirus, a son of the Württemberg theologian Johannes Magirus , was trained in the monastery school in Maulbronn and studied at the University of Tübingen . He was a deacon in Herrenberg and Stuttgart, from 1589 pastor in Backnang . In 1598 he became superintendent in Göppingen . On July 24, 1603 he gave the first evangelical sermon in Salach and thus carried out the local Reformation. In 1609 he became abbot in Anhausen an der Brenz monastery , in 1612 provost in Denkendorf and finally in 1619 abbot and prelate in Bebenhausen, where he died in 1626.
In addition to funeral sermons , Magirus published a controversial theological text against the Calvinist Georg Hanfeld in 1592 .
Web links
- Johannes Magirus in the German biography
- Works by and about Johannes Magirus in the German Digital Library
- Publications by and about Johannes Magirus in VD 16 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Sigel: The evangelical Württemberg . tape 14 . Gebersheim 1931, p. 719-720 .
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SURNAME | Magirus, Johannes |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant pastor and abbot |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1560 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1626 |
Place of death | Bebenhausen Monastery |