Johannes Zehender

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Johannes Zehender (after 1600 Johannes Decumanus ; * 1564 in Besigheim , † September 25, 1613 in Vienna ) was a Baden court preacher , later a Jesuit .

Life

Zehender was the son of the governor of Besigheim. His mother was a sister of Eberhard Bidembach , the first Protestant abbot of the Bebenhausen monastery . From 1572 he attended the Besigheim Latin School. He then studied from 1579 at the University of Tübingen , where he obtained his master's degree in 1583 . He was initially a deacon in Durlach and then became court preacher to Margravine Anna , the widow of Karl II. After her death, he officiated as court preacher to her son Jakob III. and befriended the doctor and historian Johannes Pistorius . In 1590 he converted to Catholicism and became court preacher to Prince-Bishop and Cardinal Andreas of Austria in Constance . In the summer of 1591 he was ordained a priest . He enrolled on November 5, 1591 at the Papal Gregorian University and lived in the Collegium Germanicum . In 1595 he received his doctorate in Rome and accepted into the Jesuit order.

Zehender played an important role at the time of denominationalization . After 1600 he signed his writings with the Latinized name Decumanus . In 1601 he was a participant in the Regensburg Religious Discussion , later director of the Jesuit College in Vienna and preacher at St. Stephen's Cathedral . He died of the plague after taking care of those suffering from the plague .

Works (selection)

  • Dialogvs: A Christian, friendly, no less funny than useful conversation, from the present time, in many countries perceived, and many extremely difficult religious reformation , Angermayr, Ingolstadt 1601.
  • Brief summary of the relationship: Colloquio , Burgk, Closter 1602, which was partly held by theologians at Regenspurg newer time between the Catholic one and the Augsburg Confession .
  • Very useful / the original, however, the same sounding night print Zweyer Christl. Sermons / whose the first / of good works / the other / of the article / how the sinful man must be righteous before God / and eternally blissful / acts: So in Prague on the 4th and 5th Sunday after Trinity of the 1608th jars / Of honor. High gel. Mr. Polycarpo Leisern / the Holy Scripture Doctorn / and Churf. Saxon court pedagogues: Sampt attached Evangelical consideration of the same / with various prefaces / and at the end of both sermons / another (the somewhat unfair praefation of D. Leiser) strange explanation. , Angermeyer, Ingolstadt 1608.

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SURNAME Zehender, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Decumanus, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden court preacher and Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH 1564
PLACE OF BIRTH Besigheim
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1613
Place of death Vienna