Johannes Spittelmaier

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Johannes Spittelmaier (* before 1500 in Straubing ; † after 1535) was an Anabaptist theologian and preacher of the Anabaptist Church in the Moravian Nikolsburg . There is also the name form Hans Spittelmaier .

Life

Spittelmaier probably enrolled at the University of Ingolstadt in 1514 , where he met the theologian Balthasar Hubmaier . Later he worked as a pastor at the Nikolsburg Wenceslas Church. At this point at the latest, Spittelmaier must have turned to the early Reformation movement that started out from Luther . After Hubmaier came to Nikolsburg in the summer of 1526, Spittelmaier finally joined the radical Reformation Anabaptist movement and became one of Hubmaier's employees together with Oswald Glait . Together they initiated a local Anabaptist Reformation, which made Nikolsburg a center of the young Anabaptist movement. In intra-Anabaptist conflict supported the legitimacy of state power Spittelmaier the party formed around Hubmaier Schwertler while Glait to the order hat educated staff officers joined. In March 1528, Spittelmaier was still trying to prevent the rift between the two groups in a disputation. A short time later, however, a group of Stäbler around Jakob Widemann moved to Austerlitz and established the first Anabaptist community there on a communal basis. After Hubmaier's arrest in 1528, Spittelmaier soon assumed a leading position within the Anabaptist Church in the Nikolsburg area, which comprised several parishes. What position he took in the dispute about the Sabbath initiated between 1529 and 1532 by Andreas Fischer and the Sabbathers is not known. In June 1535 Spittelmaier was one of the signatories of the creed of the five preachers of the Nikolsburg Anabaptist Church, which was still strongly influenced by the theology of Balthasar Hubmaier . After the Anabaptist preachers from the Nikolsburg parish churches were driven out in the summer of 1535, however, his further life remains in the dark.

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SURNAME Spittelmaier, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spittelmaier, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anabaptist theologian and preacher of the Anabaptist Church in Nikolsburg, Moravia
DATE OF BIRTH before 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Straubing
DATE OF DEATH after 1535