Johannes Sylvius Egranus

Johannes Sylvius Egranus (actually Johannes Wildenauer ; * around 1480 in Eger ; † June 11, 1535 in Böhmisch-Kamnitz ) was a German theologian , humanist , reformer and friend of Martin Luther .

Live and act

Johannes Wildenauer, named after his place of birth Egranus , studied from the summer of 1500 at the Artistic Faculty of the University of Leipzig , where he became a Baccalarius in the summer of 1501, a master's degree at the end of 1507 and was then a lecturer. After extensive travels, on which he met Erasmus von Rotterdam in Basel , he worked as a preacher in Zwickau from 1517 . There he polemicized against the legends about Saint Anne and also got into disputes with Thomas Müntzer . From 1521 to 1523 he worked as a Protestant preacher in Sankt Joachimsthal , then unsteadily in Nuremberg , where he was known to Willibald Pirckheimer , and as parish administrator in Kulmbach (1524), Sagan (1526) and Chemnitz (1530). Around 1533/34 he was back in Joachimsthal. On June 1, 1535 he died in Bohemian-Kamnitz.

Martin Luther wrote a preface to his Apologetica responsio against Hieronymus Dungersheim , published in Leipzig in April 1518 . Wildenauer is said not to have approved his work De servo arbitrio , but he was an opponent of the Catholic theologian Johannes Eck . In his later sermons an rapprochement with Catholicism should be recognizable.

The fact that he died as a result of excessive alcohol consumption has found its way into publications as a reputation damaging (but probably not applicable) legend.

literature

• Theodor Kolde :  Egranus, Johannes Sylvius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 692 f.
• Karlheinz Blaschke :  Egranus, Johannes Sylvius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 341 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Georg Buchwald : The doctrine of the JSE in its relation to the Reformation (BSKG 4, 1888, 163-202).
• Otto Clemen : Johannes Sylvius Egranus (Mitt. D. Altertumsver. In Zwickau 6, 1899, 1–39; 7, 1902, 1–32).
• Heribert Sturm : Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Countries, Volume I, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1979, published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , page 287.
• Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former government district of Eger, Volume 1, Männedorf / ZH, 1965, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , page 125.
• Eger homeland. History of a German landscape in documentaries and memories, 1981, Amberg in der Oberpfalz, short biography Johannes Wildenauer, page 566.
• Lorenz Schreiner : Monuments in the Egerland. Documentation of a German cultural landscape between Bavaria and Bohemia. With the participation of the State Archives in Cheb / Eger under J. Bohac and other collaborators, 2004 Amberg in der Oberpfalz, Johannes Sylvius Wildenauer (Egranus) page 845.

Works

• Apologetica responsio contra dogmata, Apologetica responsio contra dogmata, que […] a calumniatoribus inuulgata sunt, Wittenberg 1518 (digital)
• Contra Calumniatores suos Apologia, in qua diuam Annam nupsisse Claeophae & Salomae […] euangelicis et probatissimis testimoniis refellit, Nuremberg 1518 (digital)
• A sermon about confession and how one of his sins may be resolved, Leipzig 1522 (digital)
• A Christian lesson on the justice of faith and good work, Leipzig 1534 (digital)
• Unprinted sermons by Johann Sylvius Egranus, held in Zwickau and Joachimsthal 1519–1522 (sources and representations from the history of the Reformation century 18), ed. by Georg Buchwald , Leipzig 1911

as editor

• Ambrosius , Tres officiorum libri, Leipzig 1509 (digital)

Web links

• Literature in the catalog of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek