Johannes Wäber

Johannes Wäber, anonymous portrait (after 1577)

Von des Menschen clothing [...] , title page (1557)

Johannes Wäber (also Johannes Textor or Textorius ) (born January 6, 1499 in Spreitenbach , † August 25, 1577 in Bern ) was a Swiss theologian.

Johannes Wäber was the son of the weaver Hans Büler and Margaretha Leuthard from Merenschwand . He attended school in Zurich from 1511 to 1513 and was then a scholar in Bern , Aarau , St. Gallen , Neuburg an der Donau , Nuremberg , Schwabach , Erfurt , Coburg and Ansbach . He was ordained a priest in 1522 and was pastor of Hedingen until 1532 , where he held a concubine from 1522 to 1524, whose name was unknown. In 1524 he joined the Reformation and married Margaretha Siggenthaler (1494–1553), the former abbess of Rathausen . In 1532 he lost his pastor and in 1533 became a preacher in Aarau. In 1544 he became a helper at the Bern Minster , received the Bernese citizen law and in 1548 was appointed professor there. In 1553 he married Elisabeth Bannwart (1531–1567) from Schafhausen . For reasons of age he was dismissed from the ministry in 1565 with a personal asset, but remained a member of the convent. In 1568 he married his maid Dorothea Grendelmeier. With his third marriage he turned the Small Council and the Convention against him in such a way that he was punished as pastor on the Staufberg , which he could only avert by an appeal to the Small Council.

Fonts

• " Of the people's clothing, origin, right breach, and abuse, attracted place of the holy scriptures: daruss learned how a Christian Oberkeyt, the abuse of this cyte, also how inappropriately the willing transgressors, Christians, and Christian Oberkeyt underthonen, rümend "[fragment], Bern 1557. doi: 10.3931 / e-rara-912

swell

• Biographiae Tschudi, Farelli, Weberi et epistolae variae. Biographies and letters from the time of the Reformation , 1539–1563, State Archives of the Canton of Bern , B III 65 , No. 8

literature

• Joseph Balmer: Johannes Wäber «Textorius», from Merenschwand, 1499–1577. Life picture of a free office reformer from the days of the separation of faith. Based on his autobiography using printed files , Lucerne 1883.
• Friedrich Romang: Johannes Wäber, pastor in Hedingen, Aarau and at the cathedral in Bern. A picture of life from the time of the Reformation , Bern 1892.
• Thomas Schmid: Wäber, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

• Publications by and about Johannes Wäber in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library