Johannes Nas

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Johannes Nas (also Nasus , Naß or Nase ; born March 19, 1534 in Eltmann ; † March 16 or May 16, 1590 in Innsbruck ) was a Franciscan , theological writer, preacher of the Counter-Reformation and from 1580 auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Brixen .

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Johannes Nas was born in 1534 into a family sympathetic to Protestantism in Eltmann, Franconia. His father Valentin died early, his mother Magdalena (née Schumacher or Schumann) possibly adhered to the then emerging Lutheran faith, according to other sources he was brought up as a Christian Catholic . From 1546 he completed an apprenticeship as a tailor in Bamberg, which was followed by a period of wandering through Nuremberg, Augsburg, Munich and Regensburg as a clothes dealer and tailor . During his stay in Nuremberg in 1549/50 he attended Lutheran services.

According to his own admission, the reading of the book Von der Nachführung Christi by Thomas von Kempen is said to have moved him to join the Franciscan monastery in Munich in 1552, which belonged to the Bavarian Custody of the Strasbourg Franciscan Province. After taking the religious vows in 1553 until he was ordained a priest in 1557, he practiced his learned craft here as a lay brother. He expanded his knowledge of Latin and theology he had acquired in the monastery from 1559 when he attended theological lectures at the University of Ingolstadt , and from 1560 he was a convent preacher in Ingolstadt . In the following years he developed into a successful preacher, his work in Straubing in 1566 is attributed to the fact that the city remained Catholic.

His main work as a counter-Reformation writer are the six-volume Centurien , which at the beginning ( Centuria prima, 1565) can be understood as an answer to a diatribe by the Neuburg court preacher Hieronymus Rauscher, but which turned into one of crude language and polemics long after his death in 1569 marked exchange of blows with the supporters of Luther . Nas also wrote a catechism and smaller didactic writings during his time in Ingolstadt , but the majority of his extensive estate is made up of the prints of his collected sermons. A short handwritten autobiography of him from 1580 has also been preserved, which Nas wrote down  in his parchment prayer book - probably on the occasion of his episcopal ordination .

In 1571 Nas stayed in Rome as a participant in the General Chapter of the Franciscans, in the same year he was appointed cathedral preacher in Bressanone . In 1572 Archduke Ferdinand II brought him to Innsbruck as court preacher, and in 1580 he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Brixen. In this function he undertook numerous pastoral trips, in 1582 he was commissioned by Prince Bishop Johann Thomas von Spaur to visit the diocese .

Johannes Nas died either on March 16 or May 16, 1590 in Innsbruck and was buried in the chapel of the Franciscan monastery there. After the abolition of the monastery by Emperor Joseph II in 1785 and the transfer of the bones to the Jesuit church , Nas' grave has been in the court church as the only bishop's grave since 1842 .

Honors

Memorial plaque on the wall of the rectory in Eltmann

In his birthplace Eltmann, the street east of the parish church of St. Michael and John the Baptist was named Johannes-Nas-Platz.

Works (selection)

  • 1566: Drey Solid Holy Catholic Sermons. Weißenhorn, Ingolstadt.
  • 1567: catechism. Ingolstadt.
  • 1567: The anti-papist one and hundred outsiders, certain, evangelical warhait, bey wölchen (as with the fruits of the tree) which reyn should and must be recognized. Weißenhorn, Ingolstadt.
  • 1568: See how the ellend Lutherthumb, through his aigne advocates, martyred, anatomized, slaughtered, chopped up, cut up, boiled, roasted, and ultimately completely eaten up. Weißenhorn, Ingolstadt.
  • 1568: Secunda Centuria, That is the other hundred of the evangelicals. Weißenhorn, Ingolstadt.
  • 1569: Tertia Centvria, that is, concerning the third hundred, the doubled Euangellose warheit. D. Luther's teaching and interpretation of the Bible. Weißenhorn, Ingolstadt.
  • 1570: Quarta Centuria, that is, that four hundred of the fourfold evangelical truth. Weißenhorn, Ingolstadt.
  • 1570: Qvinta Centvria, That is the fifth hundred of the Evangelical truth. Weißenhorn, Ingolstadt.
  • 1574: Sextae Centvriae Prodromvs, That is, A Vorrab and Morgengab, the sixth hundred Eua [n] of solved truth. Weißenhorn, Ingolstadt.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Josef Gelmi: Johannes Nas. In: Lexicon for Theology and Church . Third edition. Volume 7 (1998), p. 646.
  2. ↑ a b G. Ebenhöh: Johannes Nas - Saubayer and Franconian, Jesus-opposed donkey. In: altmod.de. Archived from the original on December 7, 2016 ; Retrieved December 7, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c Nas, Johannes. In: deutsche-biographie.de. Retrieved December 7, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c Testimonials in German-speaking countries: Johannes Nas. In: geschkult.fu-berlin.de. Free University of Berlin , accessed December 7, 2016 .
  5. ^ A b René-André Kohl: The leaflet 'Anatomia Lutheri' and the work of the author Johannes Nas during the Reformation. GRIN Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-93304-9 .
  6. ↑ Peter Hofmann: Hieronymus Rauscher. In: schweinfurtfuehrer.de. Retrieved on December 7, 2016 (private website): “Source: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, 27th volume; Quad - Reinald; Leipzig, Publishing House Duncker & Humblot 1888 "
  7. ↑ List of works: Johannes Nas. In: Digitale-sammlungen.de. Retrieved December 7, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Nas, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nasus, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franciscan (OFM) and controversial theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1534
PLACE OF BIRTH Eltmann
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1590 or May 16, 1590
Place of death innsbruck