Joshua Opitz

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Josua Opitz; Engraving by Tobias Stimmer (1539–1584) / Christoph Murer (1558–1614), printed in 1590

Joshua Opitz (also: Opitius or Joshua Opicius ) (* 1542 in Neukirchen / Pleisse in the Margraviate of Meissen , † November 11 . Jul / 21st November  1585 . Greg in Büdingen ) was a German Lutheran ( Flacian ) theologian and educator who worked in Germany and Austria.

Life

Saxony and Gera

Josua Opitz was born in Neukirchen near Zwickau in the margraviate of Meißen. He must have been noticeably tall: David Chytraeus (1530–1600) called in a letter from 1580 Wolf Christoph von Mamming († 1592) to Nussdorf ob der Traisen “a slim, grown person, almost reaching beyond Opitz” .

Josua Opitz from Neukirchen enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 1560 . In 1562 Josua Opitz was pastor in Burkhardtsdorf near Chemnitz . On March 5, 1566 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree from the University of Wittenberg . In 1566, Opitz was expelled from the Electorate of Saxony as a Flacian . From 1566 to 1570 he was a deacon in Gera and in 1567 signed the Gnesio-Lutheran , Flacian-oriented so-called " Reussian - Schönburg Confession" there .

regensburg

Neupfarrkirche in Regensburg

In 1570 he became a deacon and shortly afterwards as the successor of Nicolaus Gallus (around 1516–1570), who was also Flacian-minded, superintendent in the Free Imperial City of Regensburg . Opitz wrote a foreword to the text “Das Buchlein Jesu Syrachs in Gesangweiß verfast” written by the Regensburg schoolmaster Magdalena Heymair (around 1535 – after 1586), intended for elementary instruction . The rector of the Poeticum grammar school Mag. Hieronymus Haubold (around 1535–1579) dedicated 1572 to Josua Opitz, the councilor and city treasurer Haubold Flettacher († around 1588), the legal consul Michael Pühlmeier (Pühelmair) (1531–1590) and the imperial notary and city -Syndikus Johann Linda (Tilianus) (1514–1583) a Latin grammar.

After Martin Chemnitz (1522–1586) in November 1573, on behalf of Duke Julius von Braunschweig (1528–1589), whom the Regensburg Council had asked, had written an opinion on the doctrine of original sin of the theologians there, Opitz was on February 6, 1574 together with Hieronymus Haubold and the two pastors Mag. Hieronymus Peristerius († 1587?) and Wolfgang Viereckel dismissed from the magistrate as a Flacian. Opitz later fell out with Peristerius when he revoked his opinion in 1578.

In the aftermath of the matter, a literary dispute that lasted until 1582 ensued between the Council of the City of Regensburg, which published a justification, Opitz and the Regensburg pastor Wolfgang Waldner († 1591/93), who tried to refute Opitz's defense.

Vienna

On April 13, 1574 Opitz received the letter of appointment to preacher of the gentry and knighthood in the Lower Austrian country house in Vienna . His sermons were very popular; allegedly over 8,000 people sometimes came to his country house. However, Emperor Maximilian II advised the estates to choose another preacher instead of the "peaceful and vexed" Opitz. In 1575 an inconclusive colloquium was held in Horn to settle the dispute with the Flacians Opitz, Lorenz Becher (* 1546; † after 1584) and Johann Friedrich Coelestin († 1578) from Stein on the one hand, Mag. Jakob Heilbrunner (1548-1618) on the other hand; In 1577 Celestine took over a pastorate in Vienna. Von Opitz's colleague in Vienna was initially Becher, but in 1576 he moved to Horn as pastor. Through Opitz's mediation, Rupert Artzhofer (1544; † after 1581) came to Baron Sigmund von Landau (1543–1607) in Dürnkrut and Ebenthal as pastor .

Renaissance portal of the Lower Austria country house in Vienna, 1571

After Opitz had his statement On Original Sin printed in 1575 in the aftermath of and in connection with the Regensburg disputes in Mansfeld , in 1576 the universities of Rostock and Frankfurt an der Oder were asked to examine his writings; Chytraeus received the documents sent from Vienna in Wolfenbüttel . He urged Opitz, Coelestin and Mag. Christoph Reuter († 1581) in a letter dated June 24, 1576 to maintain the peace of the church. Erbtruchsess Michael Ludwig von Puchheim (1512–1580), Court War Council President Wilhelm von Hofkirchen , Mento Gogreve and Ambrosius Ziegler († 1578) arranged for Polycarp Leyser the Elder. Ä. to complain in a letter to Jakob Andreae about the work of Opitz, who was accused of being a Flacian.

Josua Opitz was strongly attacked in the so-called Passau Gravamina of the Catholic estates from 1576. The situation for the Austrian Protestants worsened significantly when Emperor Maximilian II (1527–1576, ruled 1564) died on October 12, 1576 in Regensburg. In 1577 a dispute between Opitz and the Jesuit priest Georg Scherer (1540-1605) over a sermon by Opitz about the celibacy and the effects of celibacy caused a sensation. With the Franciscan priest and court preacher in Innsbruck , who later became Auxiliary Bishop of Brixen Johannes Nas (1534–1590), in 1577/78 he conducted a literary discussion of the Lord's Supper " in both forms ".

In 1577 Opitz carried out several ordinations in Vienna , for example with Balthasar Grave (* 1551; † after 1580), Johann Weiß († after 1580) or Hieronymus Schütz (Sagittarius) († after 1580). Opitz also gave funeral sermons in the old town hall , for example for the deceased councilor and town clerk Franz Igelshofer (around 1505–1577), while Archduke Ernst of Austria (1553–1595) - who represented the still absent new emperor 1576/77 - in January 1577 kept sharply at the City Council of Vienna. Emperor Rudolf II. (1552–1612, ruled from 1576) commissioned Archduke Ernst in a letter from Bautzen on May 3, 1577 to put an end to the goings-on of the evangelical preachers in Vienna. On June 7th, 1577, Ernst forbade the citizens of Vienna to attend the services of the Protestant nobility in the Landschaftshaus.

In August 1577, the Flacian-minded Land Marshal Hans Wilhelm von Roggendorf (1531–1590), the imperial council Gundaker XI planned. von Starhemberg (1535–1585) and the estate decreed Wolf Christoph von Mamming a dispute about original sin between Josua Opitz and Ambrosius Ziegler, of which, however, it is not known whether it came about.

Josua Opitz; Portrait collection of the Austrian National Library

On May 10, 1578, Emperor Rudolf II, the Opitz invited, according to a report by the offensive Catholic Imperial Court Councilor Dr. Georg Eder (1523–1587) had already interrogated the Protestant preachers personally for an hour because of his harsh sermons and forbade them to hold church services in Vienna. The following day, Opitz, Mag. Johann Tettelbach the Elder, J. (1546 – ​​after 1586) and the Preceptor Mag. Paul Sesser († after 1596) resigned from the estates. Shortly afterwards, on May 29, 1578, after an interruption of more than 15 years, a public Corpus Christi procession was celebrated again in the presence of Rudolf II. It was so severely disturbed (so-called “Milk War in Vienna” ) that it took a week to repeat later the population was excluded. Immediately after this event, Opitz was expelled from Vienna on June 21, 1578, along with Tettelbach, Michael Hugo († after 1584) and Sesser. The newly elected rector of the University of Vienna , the lawyer Dr. Johann Baptist Schwarzenthaler († 1615), who as a Lutheran did not want to take part in the procession for reasons of conscience, was deposed by Rudolf II.

The expulsion of “Opicius” and the other evangelical preachers from Vienna on June 21 was already described by Hubert Languet in a letter of July 16, 1578 from Cologne to Philip Sidney .

horn

Opitz first went to Horn in Lower Austria , where he and his wife were accepted in the winter of 1578/79 by the Erbtruchsess in Austria Veit Albrecht von Puchheim (around 1532–1584). From there, Opitz sent a "letter to all who are Christians, and who are permanent believers in the holy Euangelij from our Lord Jesus Christ in Vienna in Austria" .

Josua Opitz could, according to the treatise " Magdeburgius von Spangenberg , Irenaeus , Opitius zu Dondelskirchen refuted" , have stayed briefly in Donnerskirchen am Neusiedlersee , which was part of the then Protestant rule of Eisenstadt - Forchtenstein . From 1577 to 1582, the Flacian pastor Johann Hauser († after 1594) worked in Donnerskirchen, who in 1583 published an excerpt from Opitz's work Menschen Spiegel after his " Exulation " .

Hohenlohe

In 1579/80 Opitz found support from the brothers Sebastian d. J. (1532–1598), Johannes (Hans) (1534–1594) and Albrecht von Crailsheim (1536–1593) zu Morstein , Braunsbach and Erkenbrechtshausen , who had taken in many expelled Flacians in their Franconian possessions. He later dedicated a sermon to them on Michaelmas Day ; He also mentions Eberhard von Stetten (1527–1583) zu Kocherstetten and his son Wolf von Stetten († 1619) as supporters of the Flacians. In Hohenlohe like Opitz held around this time alongside other Christoph Irenaeus (* 1522, † 1595), Johann Eschen (Fraxineus) (* 1540, † after 1606) and Caspar Kirch or Paul Reinecker on.

Büdingen

The former rectory in Büdingen from the 15th century.

A planned appointment by Opitz to the Lutheran congregation in Antwerp did not materialize. In 1579 or 1580 he became pastor in Büdingen in the county of Isenburg as a preacher for Ludwig III. von Isenburg zu Büdingen in Birstein (1529–1588), whom Opitz married in 1581 with his second wife Marie von Hohenstein zu Klettenberg († 1586). As the city pastor, he was in charge of the school supervision and in 1580 put together a “school law” for the Latin school in Büdingen , which contained a curriculum or lesson catalog and a timetable.

Opitz corresponded at this time with Georg Nigrinus (1530-1602), pastor to Echzell in the Wetterau and superintendent of Alsfeld and Nidda , who published some polemical writings in the style of brutalism against Johannes Nas and Georg Eder. From Büdingen he also supported Cyriakus Spangenberg (1528-1604) and Christoph Irenäus literary in an inner-Flacian dispute against Joachim Magdeburg (* 1525; † around 1587) after the publication of the so-called Eferdingian comparison . In 1584 Opitz published a mourning poem for Gilbert's husband, who died young (around 1567 - 1584). His father, the Isenburg-Ronneburg council and secretary Martin Husband († after 1586) had dedicated Opitz in 1582 to the printing of a sermon about his understanding of the Lord's Supper .

Josua Opitz died in 1585 two weeks after his wife Judith, b. Kruginger (buried on October 27th July / November 6th  1585 greg. ) In Büdingen an der Pest . His friend Michael Eichler gave the funeral sermon. With a "lion's heart" in his chest, Opitz "thundered (as he was prepared by God in such a way) against the pope, Jesuit, monk, priest, nun, and all the abominations of papacy, including all ungodly nature and wickedness of men" and stood before emperors and councilors for the sake of his teaching. His children Henrich, Christophel, Martin, Maria and one other child also died in the plague epidemic in 1585, in which “ God took away the pious and committed pastor M. Iosuam Opitium ... not just for himself: but also the house was so rubbish that from October 3rd to Nouembris 11th he, his wife and five children, that is 7th people died from it. “An older son Abraham Opitius († 1599/1600) is attested from 1591 as a pharmacopulus ( pharmacist ) in Hammelburg and from 1594 in the Büdinger city bill. Abraham Opitz named his eldest son "Josua" after his grandfather.

meaning

Opitz was extraordinarily productive in literary terms and dealt with both internal evangelical opponents and Roman Catholic opponents in the confessional disputes of the 16th century. Some educational writings that attempt to convey theological issues to children and schoolchildren in an age-appropriate manner are exceptional in his time.

In 1584 the Danish songwriter Hans Christensen Sthen (1544-1610) published the translation of an interpretation of Ps 1 EU published in 1582 by Opitz under his own name.

Varia

In Brunn am Gebirge , a picture of Josua Opitz was added to the panel (no longer preserved) for the high altar, commissioned by the local "wine growers" and made by the form cutter and painter Donat Hübschmann (before 1540–1583), on which he Emperor Maximilian II (1527–1576) and his wife Maria (1528–1603) were given the Lord's Supper “in both forms”. Among his followers also circulated a woodcut by Opitz from 1581 with a poem "Opitius the pure Lahr / Tregt trewlich for the Christians crowd ..." .

Josua Opitz the Younger

A younger Josua Opitius (* around 1565; † probably after 1635) from Chemnitz ("Chemnicensis") studied from 1583 in Basel and 1586/87 at the Strasbourg Academy . Their rector Melchior Junius (1545–1604) announced a college in September 1586 in which the conception of “M. Josua Opitius Misnensis ” (“ from the Margraviate of Meißen ”) “ about illness and hardship received from need and poverty ” ( “ de aegritudine ... et molestia, quae ex inopia atque egestate percipiuntur ” , probably the title of a lost one academic disputation ) should be treated critically. In 1587 his friends published a commemorative publication for him and Jakob Fabricius (* 1560; † after 1610) from Meißen - son of Georg Fabricius - on the occasion of their graduation to Masters. M. Josua Opitz enrolled at the University of Jena in 1590. In 1592 he was the preceptor (Ludimoderator) of Georg Wilhelm von Zinzendorf (* 1571; † after 1592), the only son of the deceased, evangelically-minded castle captain of Eisenstadt, Hannibal von Zinzendorf (1538–1572), and his wife (⚭ 1568) Agnes of Hoyos. Opitius participated with a neo-Latin poem in a commemorative publication for the Jena aristocratic rector Duke Magnus von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1577-1632).

In 1598 “mag. Josua Opitius Chemnicensis Misnius ” at the University of Vienna. In 1602, Magister Josua Opizi was charged 30 guilders for a hereditary crypt on the Evangelical Church in front of the Schottentor in Vienna; in 1624 his wife was buried there. As a lawyer, he went to court in 1616 against the heirs of Sebastian II Grabner zu Rosenberg and Pottenbrunn († 1610), who signed the Horner Bundbrief , because of a notice of mortgage that had been canceled. In 1635 Josua Opitius from Vienna entered the register of Johann Höpfner (1582–1645).

The college announcement from Strasbourg has been preserved in the Büdinger archive, so that there should be a family relationship. The mutual relations with Vienna and the rule Eisenstadt suggest this. Josua Opitz the Elder J. was born around the time when Josua Opitz (the elder) was pastor in Burkhardtsdorf near Chemnitz; probably he was his (eldest) son.

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  • Josua Opitz: Jesus Ad Caesarem Rhodolphum (German poem) and Von der h. Drivaltigkheit , Vienna May 29, 1575 (originally Lobris Library , now Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage, manuscript department, Ms. germ. Fol. 1165)
  • Josua Opitz: Christian question and answer about man's status, nature and essence for even after the fall, for also after the rebirth in this and the future life , 1577 (Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, quart. Cod 89, p. 49 -88)
  • Simon Musaeus / Georg Autumnus a. a .: Conference writings of a number of predicants in the rulers of Graitz, Geraw, Schönburg and others, written afterwards, placed to the necessary rejection of many established Calumnia and Lesterungen and to declare and promote the truth against it ... Andreas Petri, Eisleben 1567
  • Letter from Polykarp Leyser the Elder Ä. to Jakob Andreae in Tübingen on March 2, 1577 from Göllersdorf . In: Adam Rechenberg (ed.): Sylloge epistolarum BD Polycarpi Lyseri… ex Mss.… Eruta et in unum volume congesta . Lanck Nachf., Leipzig 1706, SS 237–248 ( Google Books , Google Books )
  • Mandatum Caesareum ad Josuam Opitium et Collegas. Item ad collegas Scholae ordinum Viennae, ut ex urbe et omnibus ditionibus Caesaris discedant et exercitium religionis intermittant (German), June 21, 1578. (1 sheet) (Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Cod.hist. 235, fol. 50)
  • Portia to Gallio - Vienna, 1578 May 10 and Portia to Gallio - Vienna, 1578 June 21 . In: Alexander Koller (ed.): Nunciatures of Giovanni Delfino and Bartolomeo Portia (1577–1578) . (Nunciature reports from Germany III / 9). Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 2003, pp. 408f and 461ff, cf. Pp. 151f, 172, 385, 393, 406f, 415f, 432, 464, 469f, 472, 483 and 490
  • Instruction for Orazio Malaspina - Rome, 1578 August 29 . In: Alexander Koller (Ed.): Nunciatures of Orazio Malaspina and Ottavio Santacroce. Interim des Cesare DellArena (1578–1581) . (Nunciature reports from Germany III / 10). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, pp. 1–5 ( Google Books , limited preview)
  • The expulsion of the Lutheran preachers from Vienna, 1578 . In: Josef von Zahn (arrangement): Heckenstaller's Frisingensia in Munich . In: Notes sheet. Supplement to the archive for customer Austrian historical sources 8 (1858), pp. 253–256, 273–280, 293–296, 313–320, 333–336, 353–360, 374–376, 389–393, 409– 417, 436–441 and 463–465, esp. Pp. 359f, 374–376 and 389–411 ( Google Books )
  • Contrafactur of Venerable Mr. M. Josuae Opitij , Weyland Superintendens zu Regenspurg, now pastor of Budingen. "Opitius the pure Lahr / Tregt trewlich for the Christians crowd ..." . o. O. 1581 ( online resource in the photo archive Photo Marburg , accessed on May 23, 2018)
  • Spangenberg, Irenaeus a. Opitius, to the Austrian estates ; Bamberg State Library ( Joseph Heller Collection , Ms 384/81)
  • Magdeburgius von Spangenberg, Irenaeus, Opitius zu Dondelskirchen refuted ; Bamberg State Library (Joseph Heller Collection, Ms 384/47)
  • Michael Eichler: A Christian funeral sermon, from the 91st Psalm ... delivered over the corpse of the virtuous Frawen Judithe, weyland of the Honorable Josuae Opitij, Pastor of Büdingen, Blessed Haussfrawen . Done there on the 27th of October. In 1584th jare. Nikolaus Heinrich the Elder Ä., Ursel 1585
  • Michael Eichler: A Christian funeral sermon. About the saying Esaie 56… Held over the corpse of… Iosuae Opitij, pastor of Büdingen . Done there on the 12th of Nouembris. Nikolaus Heinrich the Elder Ä., Ursel 1585 ( digitized in the German text archive)
  • (anonymous) Polemics between Michael and the reformers , among whom “Opitius” is listed. Manuscript, 17th century; Historical archive of the city of Cologne (7020 manuscripts (W *), 151)

Works

  • A Christian funeral sermon. At the request of the venerable and highly learned Mr. Nicolai Galli, pastor and superintendent of the Christian community in Regenspurg . Johann Burger, Regensburg 1570 ( digital copy from the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
  • Genethliacon . Historia De Miranda Et Salvtifera Natiuitate humana Filij Dei, Domini & Saluatoris nostri Iesu Christi. Elegiaco carmine conscripta , Autore M. Iosva Opitio Ecclesiaste Ratisbonensi . Johann Burger, Regensburg 1571 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich), ( Google Books )
  • In Microbiblia reverendi patris D. Martini Lutheri, à M. Iohanne Tetelbachio exposita . In: Johann Tettelbach (Ed.): Das Guelden Gem . D.Mart. Lutheri Catechismus Jn short question and answer formulated and the dear youth simply published, 2nd edition Katharina Rebart / Kilian Han, Frankfurt am Main 1571 (and further editions; not included in the first edition Heinrich Geißler, Regensburg 1568) ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library Munich)
  • (Preface to :) Magdalena Heymair: The little book of Jesus Syrachs in singing white compiled by Magdalenam Heymairin, German schoolmaster in Regenspurg and given to the dear youth for good in truck. With a nice preface. Ephes 5…, Regensburg 1571 (and other editions) ( digital copy from the Berlin State Library)
  • “ Of both the form of the high sacrament. Certain reason and reasons why one should not otherwise share and receive the H. Sacrament of the altar in both forms. Also strong evidence that the baptismal communion under one form is wrong. And no Christian, one disadvantage of his bliss that Sacrament could receive in one form . Item refuting the alleged causes so that the papists want to get a shape. Sampt addressed the consolation for all staunch Christians who suffer persecution from this ”. Johann Burger, Regensburg 1572 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich), ( Google Books )
  • Epithalamion . This is a Christian bridal sermon from the holy marital status against the wretched Hurn and married couple and his companions, useful and comforting to read to all Christian married couples, placed in honor of the mercy and honor vests of Mr. Görgen Edern and his loved ones, the merciful and virtuous young wife Clara Möllerin, and now put in the truck by M. Josuam Opitium. Johann Burger, Regensburg undated [1572]
  • Ad pueros in Gymnasio Ratisbonensis . In: Hieronymus Haubold (ed.): ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ grammaticae Philippi Melanthonis Latinae , collecta & edita per M. Hieronymum Hauboldum, Rectorem Scholae Ratisbonensium. Johann Burger, Regensburg 1572, unpaginated ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
  • A fasting sermon of Christian and antichristian fasting against the apostolic idolatrous fasting devil ... held ... in the Newen parish to Regenspurk by Iosuam Opitium. Johann Burger, Regensburg 1573 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich), ( Google Books )
  • Confession of the original sin and main source of all real sins in Adam and all his descendants of the truth to stewer, and to the rejection of many coarse calumnies , by M. Josuam Opitium about pastor and superintendent of Regenspurgk. Andreas Petri, Mansfeld 1575
  • (Collaboration in :) Philipp Bartmann, Josua Opitz: A Christian funeral sermon Bey the Begrebniß weyland des Wolgeborne [n] gentlemen, gentlemen Carlen Ludwigen, gentlemen von Zelcking , to Syrendorff ... held to Syrendorff, in Lower Austria, there the body of Raab with civil insult, led, and afterwards there, 23 August, this 1577. Jares ... was confirmed. Through Philippum Barbatum Gerlicum Predicanten there, there are also a number of Latin epitaphs, o.O. 1577
  • People mirror. That is: Of man's status, nature and essence, for and after the fall, for and after the rebirth, in this and in the future life . Christian question and answer, asked benevolent Christians please, by M. Iosuam Opitium. Published in print by several of his listeners and parishioners who have been parishioners, o. O. 1577 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich), ( Google Books )
    • 2nd edition “by M. Iosuam Opitium, Evangelical Preacher in Vienna in Austria. Overlooked by newem and reprinted ", o. O. 1578 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library, Munich)
    • 3rd ed.
    • 4th edition Ursel 1582 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
    • (Excerpt reprinted in :) Joachim Magdeburg: Reason, Vrsach and more sufficient out of God's words were proof: That the less, of the essential final creation of original sin, in the bodies of the permanent believers in Christ , and the same only on the last day, in and through the Resurrection, as the final completion of the rebirth, happened, o. O. 1582, Scan No. 107 and 108 ( digitized version of the Austrian National Library Vienna)
    • (Excerpt reprinted in :) Johann Hauser (Hrsg.): “ Von der volko [m] men Essendlichen, the removal of original sin. Clear and bright sayings from God's word, D. Martini Lutheri holy memory, M. Cyriaci Spangenbergij, M. Christophori Jrenei and M. Josuæ Opicij Schrifften . From that every devout Christian who loves the truth can see ... Read together by Johannem Hauser Exulem Iesu Christi, with excerpts from works by Christoph Irenäus / Martin Luther / Josua Opitz / Cyriacus Spangenberg ”, o. O. 1583 ( digitized from the State Library to Berlin)
  • Kurtze and thorough recollection of the right purpose of the main question in the dispute about original sin , o.O. 1578 ( Google Books )
  • Protestation against the hapless apostasy of M. Hieronymi Pereisterij from recognized and well-known truth and his retractation, or revocation , from M. Iosua Opitio, to save his Christian teaching and confession, and warned his listeners, o. O. 1578 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library, Munich), ( Google Books )
  • Letters to all were Christians, and constant confessors of the holy Euangelij of our Lord Jesus Christ in Vienna in Austria . By Josuam Opitium. Vienna 1578
    • (Excerpt reprinted in :) Georg Scherer: Catholische Glossa or Erleutterung Georgii Scherer's Societatis Iesv Theologi, based on an epistle or letters of the Vbiquentlerischen Predicanten and Professorn zu Tübingen to the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople . David Sartorius, Ingolstadt 1584, unpaginated (and other editions) ( digitized from the Bavarian State Library, Munich)
    • (Reprinted in :) Bernhard Raupach: Explained Evangelical Austria, that is continued historical news of the most distinguished fortunes of the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in the Arch-Duchy of Austria . Felginer Witwe, Hamburg 1736. Beylagen, No. XXI, pp. 171–187 ( Google Books )
  • Kurtze and finite clearance, the nefarious Lester's book Hansen Nasen , refutation , which he blew up against my little book of both the form of the H. Sacrament, in which all churches related to the Augsburg Confession and estates are touched and scrutinized in the most arduous way set the truth. D. Joshua Opitius. Evangelical preacher in Vienna, o. O. 1578 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich), ( Google Books )
  • Thorough counter-report to the report of the exemption from leave of the preachers there of truth to the truth and to the rejection of many ... requirements outside of the open acts, M. Josua Opitius of the two praiseworthy status of lords and the knighthood of the Ertzhert-Ducthumbs appointed from the ensemble Preacher, o. O. 1578 ( Google Books )
  • Crown of the h. Marriage, of many precious pieces, collected from the noble gold beechlin of the bright spirit , and made in honor of the Wolgeborn Herr Ludwig von Isenburgk, Grauen zu Büdingen. And the born Frewlin, Frewlin Maria, by then of the born Lord, Mr. Volckmar Wolffen, Grauen von Honstein , Herr zu Lahr vnd Klettenberg, daughter who was left behind, and intended horror beloved Gespons. Useful, lovely and comforting to all Christian married couples. Nikolaus Heinrich the Elder Ä., Ursel 1581
  • The first psalm of Dauid , briefly and simply explained by question and answer and expounded by M. Josuam Opitium zu Budingen pastor etc. To the honorable and Volga-respected Marx beautiful from his beloved Brawt, the virtuous Frawen Amilia, because of Philipsen Bawman's Isenburgischen mayor Wittib left behind by Budingen. Basel 1582 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
    • (Plagiarism translation ) Hans Christensen Sthen : Saligheds Vey, Det er: En kaart og Enfoldig Forklaring, Offuer den Første Kong Dauids Psalme . Matz Vingaard, Copenhagen 1584 ( digitized in the Internet Archive)
  • Defension-Schrifft, Mein, M. Josuae Opitij, against the reader's cards blown up by Wolff Waldern, now confessor to Regenspurg, and avoided clearance of my thorough counter-report sent out through open pressure on the report of the Anno 74th persecution that was open there . To stewer the truth and salvation of my Christian lore and confession of original sin ... put in print ..., Ursel: Nikolaus Heinrich d. Ä. 1582 ( digitized version of the Austrian National Library Vienna)
    • (Excerpt reprinted in :) Joachim Magdeburg: Reason, Vrsach and more sufficient out of God's words were proof: That the less, of the essential final creation of original sin, in the bodies of the permanent believers in Christ , and the same only on the last day, in and through the resurrection, jrer as finite vollzihung Wider birth happened, o. O. 1582 scan no. 108 ( Digitalisat the Austrian National library Vienna)
    • (Excerpt reprinted in :) Josias Udenius / Joachim Magdeburg: Entrance. Dead corpse to the quarrel of those who believe in Christ. I. Necessary reminder of the main point of this dispute by Iosiam Vdenivm. II. Christian warning to M. Cyr. Spangenberg by Ioachimvm Magdeburgivm, o.O. 1583, scan no.45 ( digitized version of the Austrian National Library Vienna)
  • A sermon of the equivalence of the body and blood of our Lord and Heylands Jesus Christ, in the holy night painting , Ursel: Nikolaus Heinrich d. Ä. 1582 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich), ( Google Books )
  • (Collaboration ( approval note ) in :) Cyriacus Spangenberg: Proba Der Efferdingischen comparison vber the dispute of the final creation of original sin , o. O. 1583 ( digital copy of the Bavarian State Library Munich)
  • Useful report from the angels what concerns jr essence, difference, eye creation and work. Also what a Christian should console himself against the devil and how he could have and keep the holy angels with him ... , M. Iosua Opitius zu Büdingen pastor etc., Ursel: Nikolaus Heinrich d. Ä. 1582 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich), ( Google Books )
  • Preface to the Christian reader . In: Michael Eichler: “ Güldenes Kleinot Christian Wallbrüder. Very consoling report of the Creutz and suffering of the believers in Christ How such things come from nowhere but from the high throne of Heaven and are only sent to the children of God by their Heavenly Father . ”From the words of Christ Johan. on 16 ... Described by Michael Eychlern. With a preface M. Iosuae Opitij, Ursel: Nikolaus Heinrich d. Ä. 1583 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
  • “ Children's Bible. The little catechism D. Martini Lutheri, declared with beautiful little sayings of holy writings ... Item, refutation of the fornemest Jrthumen, so disputed against them ... sampled the prayers and prayers of the house table , court for the church and youth in Budingen “, Ursel 1583
  • (Translator and editor, author of the preface) Pveris in schola Budingensi SD In: Matthäus Judex (Matthäus Richter, 1528–1564): Corpvscvlvm Doctrinae, hoc est, Partes praecipuae, & summa Christianae Doctrinae, Pueris in Schola Domiq [ue] Quaesti , & vbiq [ue] ad Catechisimi fundamentum relatae . Á M. Matthaeo Ivdice. Nunc latinogermanicè concinnatae, pro pueris in schola Budingensi. Psalm 119… Nikolaus Heinrich the Elder Ä., Ursel 1583, unpaginated ( digitized version of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel)
    • further editions
  • (Contribution in) Josua Opitz, Eberhard Mohr, Johannes Tendel, Melchior Junius , Anton Fabricius: Epitaphia in obitum rarae pietatis et praestantissimae indolis adolescentis Gilberti, clarissimi viri dn. Martini husbandanni consiliarii et secretarii Isenburgici etc. dilecti filii . Nikolaus Basse, Frankfurt am Main 1584
  • The conversation of Christ the Lord, with Nicodemo the Jewish Rabi, Of the ancient carnal birth and nature of all Adam's children. And from the spiritual rebirth of the children of God to eternal life. Or from the Old and New Creature, explained in the 3rd chapter of Johannis . In honor of ... Ludwigs von Jsenburg, Graven zu Büdingen, young gentlemen, Volckmar Wolffen, so the kingdom of grace ... Christ, through which H. Tauffe is eyngeleibet. On Trinity Sunday… 1584. Nikolaus Heinrich d. Ä., Ursel 1585
  • “ A sermon from the quarrel of Grand Duke Michaelis and his angels, with the great dragon and his followers . Held on the day of Michael, apart from the revelation of John, on the twelfth chapter, M. Iosua Opitius ”, pastor of Büdingen. Georg Baumann, Erfurt 1584
    • A sermon about the quarrel between Grand Duke Michaelis and his angels, with the great dragon and his followers . Held on the day of Michael, from the Revelation of John, on the 12th chapter, M. Iosua Opitius, pastor at Büdingen. 2nd edition Nikolaus Heinrich d. Ä., Ursel 1587 ( digitized version of the University Library Frankfurt am Main)

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Remarks

  1. ^ Also "Hieronymus Deubener" from Immensen or Ilmenau , preacher in Edersleben , 1566 in Regensburg , expelled from there as a Falcian in 1574, 1576 in Villach , 1580 to 1586 rector of the collegiate school in Graz, appointed by Judith Rueber zu Pixendorf in 1586 as a preacher in Grafenwörth , † in Grafenwörth.
  2. ↑ From Bohemia, first active in Mansfeld, since 1570 in Regensburg, later in Obersulz in Lower Austria .
  3. ↑ Began to preach evangelically as a pastor in Steyr in 1545 , married in 1548 and fled to Augsburg, 1558 preacher in the nunnery in Nuremberg, dismissed as pastor, 1565 pastor in Regensburg.
  4. ↑ From Pößneck ( Besnik ) in the Margraviate of Meißen , studied in Wittenberg and Leipzig, schoolmaster in Waldenburg , 1568 deacon in Altenburg , 1574 preacher (deacon) in Vienna, 1576 pastor in Horn, Flacian-minded, deposed in 1584, † after 1584.
  5. ↑ From Feldkirchen in Carinthia, attended the Latin schools in Troppau and Iglau, ordained in Gurk in 1570, deacon in Villach, converted to Protestantism in Seeboden, 1581 in Arbesthal , Flacian.
  6. ^ From Rochlitz in Meissen, pastor in Feldsberg .
  7. ↑ From Sternberg near Zeidler ( Brtníky ) in Niederlausitz, pastor in Eckendorf and since 1580 in Herrnbaumgarten .
  8. ↑ From Saalburg im Vogtland, deacon in Niederwallsee .
  9. ↑ Also "Tettelbachius", "Detelbachius" u. Ä .; from Dresden , son of Johann Tettelbach the Elder Ä. (1517–1598), pupil of Georg Fabricius (1516–1571) in Meißen , studied in Leipzig , ordained in Ansbach , 1565 cantor and rector of the Latin school in Feuchtwangen , 1574 to 1578 preacher in the Lower Austria country house in Vienna, then castle preacher of Adam von Puchheim, Freiherr von Karlstein (1546–1608) in Karlstein an der Thaya and pastor in Münchreith an der Thaya , expelled as a Flacian after 1586 , pastor in Ottenschlag and probably emigrated to Saxony or Bavaria.
  10. ↑ Also "Paulus Sesserus", "Seserus", "Seser" etc. Ä .; from Altenburg , appointed teacher at the landscape school in Vienna in 1576, initially expelled in 1578, then pardoned by Rudolph II, in 1579 in Horn with Veit Albrecht von Puchheim, in 1581 in Basel as Dr. med. PhD, 1583 together with Dr. med. Jakob Horn Landscape Protomedicus ("curator sanitatis") in Vienna, mentioned in 1593 and 1596 as the city medicus in Schemnitz .
  11. ↑ Also "Michaelus Hugonus"; from Weimar , ordained by Erhard Schnepf (1495–1558) in Jena in 1557 , preacher in Trockenborn , deposed as a Flacian in 1573, preacher in the Niederösterreich Landhaus in Vienna, appointed in 1578 by Veit Albrecht von Puchheim to Kühnring , expelled from there as a Flacian in 1584.
  12. ↑ As a child under the tutelage of his uncle Ulrich von Eyzing, in 1542 at the grammar school and the university in Vienna, issued plague ordinances in 1569 and 1571, church ordinances in 1577 and school ordinances for horn in 1578, set up a printing press at Wildberg Castle in Messern near Horn in 1580 to distribute the Lutheran teaching, ein I. Elisabeth von Kraigk zu Neufistritz , ⚭ II. around 1578 Helene (Elena) von Roggendorf († before 1603), family crypt in the church of St. Stephan.
  13. ↑ From Carinthia, pastor in Villach from 1565 to 1577 , then in Donnerskirchen, 1594 pastor in Nusslau ( Nosislav ) in Moravia .
  14. ↑ Presumably a relative (daughter?) Of Johannes Criginger (1521–1571) from Sankt Joachimsthal , who in 1548 was a deacon, later a pastor in Marienberg near Zwickau , became known as a cartographer and was considered a Flacian.
  15. ↑ Also "Eychler" from Fulda , 1565 to 1571 pastor in Wallenrod and Brauerschwend , 1571/72 pastor in Rinderbügen , 1572 to 1577 again pastor in Wallenrod, 1577 to 1582 pastor "Auf dem Berg" in Niedergründau , was deposed in 1582, lived 1583 “In misery” and “in the desert” in Rinderbügen, † after 1587. Flacian-minded, author of numerous small scripts.
  16. ↑ 1592 register holder in Jena; he married Anna Maria Notthracht zum Weißenstein and is probably not identical with the Apostolic Pronotary, who died after 1614 as provost of Eisgarn .
  17. ^ A son of Duke Wilhelm the Elder. J. to Braunschweig-Lüneburg .
  18. ↑ From Roßwein; also Höpner, superintendent and professor in Leipzig, canon in Merseburg and Meißen.
  19. ↑ * 1529, deacon in Chemnitz, superintendent in Greitz, pastor in Tondorf in Franconia, 1580 as dean general in Mansfeld, 1592 general superintendent in Eisleben, † 1598.
  20. ↑ 1578 to 1581 nuncio at the imperial court in Vienna.
  21. ↑ Philipp Bartmann from Franconia, Flacian, since 1565 preacher of Hans Christoph von Zelking zu Sierndorf , signed the "Confessio" of Joachim Magdeburg (1525– around 1587), expelled in 1585 by Archduke Ernst of Austria (1553–1595).
  22. ^ Karl Ludwig Herr von Zelking auf Weinberg and Ebreichsdorf, * 1531 in Brussels, Court War Councilor and Supreme Stallmeister, Colonel of Raab, † 1577.
  23. ^ Volkmar Wolfgang von Isenburg (1584–1586), son of Count Ludwig III. von Isenburg and Marie von Hohenstein zu Klettenberg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The same woodcut is also - probably incorrectly - used to depict Conrad Lycosthenes (1518–1561); see. other pictures of both in the “ digital portrait index ” of the photo archive Photo Marburg.
  2. ^ Josef Karl Mayr: Seven new funeral sermons . In: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Austria 71 (1955), p. 70.
  3. ^ "Persona procera est, Opitium fere excedens" ; Epistolae , Hanau: Johann Aubrius Erben 1614, p. 414 ( CERA edition at the Chair for Modern German Literature at the German Department of the University of Heidelberg in cooperation with the computer center and library of the University of Mannheim).
  4. ↑ According to Michael Eichler: A Christian funeral sermon… delivered over the corpse of… Iosuae Opitij, pastor of Büdingen . Nikolaus Heinrich the Elder Ä., Ursel 1585, scan no. 63, it was written in 1585: "His preaching camp in the 21st (Jar)" , would have been ordained in 1564. The parish chronicle of Burkhardtsdorf lists him - somewhat imprecisely - from 1558 to 1567 as pastor of the parish.
  5. ^ University archive Halle (Rep. 1 Archive of the University of Wittenberg, Tit. XXXXV. Philosophical Dean's Office Book (Statutes, PhD and Magister directories), No. 1, Vol. 2 (1554–1599), p. 202).
  6. ↑ the article by “M. Iosua Opitius, Ecclesiae Geranae minister F. “ in Johann Tettelbach (Hrsg.): Das Guelden Kleinod . D.Mart. Lutheri Catechismus Jn short question and answer formulated Vnd der liebe Jugend simply published, 2nd edition Frankfurt am Main: Katharina Rebart / Kilian Han 1571 (and further editions; not included in the first edition of Regensburg: Heinrich Geißler 1568)
  7. ↑ Simon Musäus: Confessionschrift: Several Predicanten in den Herrschafften, Graitz, Geraw, Schonburg, and others written afterwards . Andreas Petri, Eisleben 1567 ( Google Books ); see. Otto Meusel: The Reussian or Reussisch-Schönburg confession of 1567 . In: Contributions to the Saxon Church History 14 (1899), pp. 149–187.
  8. ↑ Ludwig von Rockinger: Reports on the examination of manuscripts of the so-called Schwabenspiegel , Part XII. (Meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Vienna. Philosophical-historical class 120.7). Gerold, Vienna 1890, p. 35f, note 6 ( Google Books ).
  9. ↑ Hieronymus Haubold: ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ Grammaticae Philippi Melanthonis Latinae . Johannes Burger, Regensburg 1572 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich).
  10. ↑ Bedencken de controversia: An peccatum sit substantia vel accidens , nomine Theologorum in ducatu Brunsvicensi, presented at the request of an honor. Rahts to Regensb. On 1573 mense Novembr, printed by: Philipp Julius Rehtmeyer : Antiquitates ecclesiasticae inclytae urbis Brunsvigae, or The famous city of Braunschweig Church History I.… Beylagen… , Braunschweig: Christoph-Friederich Zilligers Erben 1707, pp. 220–236, 1577; z. Partly taken literally in the concord formula .
  11. ↑ also clear and powerful testimonies from M. Galli and the Regenspurgische Confession of Original Sin . o. O. 1574 ( Google Books ).
  12. ↑ Hieronymus Peristerius: Retractation. Gentle repeal and rejection of the anno 1574 printed and printed short answer and report by M. Hieronymii Peristerii of the current question of the equivalent dispute of original sin . And how he had reconciled himself in a Christian way with the Euangelichen Kirchen and community of the Holy Roman Empire Freystadt Regenspurg, and with the same confession against the new Manicheer , Regensburg: Johann Burger 1578.
  13. ↑ Report, Camerer and Rathes der Statt Regenspurg etzlicher, in the church office and school service of the Protestant churches and schools there, half of people on leave. Therein the whole history and process, also the reason for the Lere von der Erbsünd, comprehended in three imprinted Censurn and irer Kirchen Bekantnus , Regensburg: Johann Burger 1574; s. Opitz's counter report in the catalog raisonné.
  14. ↑ Wolfgang Waldner: Clearance, and thorough refutation of the unfounded counter-report by M. Josue Opitij , when he dealt with original sin, his leave of absence, and several specials, against a mercy Camerer and advice of the city of Regenspurg, report, at the end of the 1578th jars, assassinated in print, Regensburg: Johann Burger 1580 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich).
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  16. ^ Decree of April 30, 1575 from Prague; Lower Austrian Provincial Archives (B. 3. 26).
  17. ↑ a b c Cf. Karl Ritter von Otto: History of the Reformation in the Archduchy of Austria under Emperor Maximilian II (1564–1576) . In: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Oesterreich 10 (1889), p. 160, esp. P. 59 ( Google Books ; limited preview).
  18. ^ Oskar Sakrausky: The Flacianism in Upper Carinthia . In: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Austria 76 (1960), pp. 83-109, esp. P. 104.
  19. ^ Letter from P. Leyser to J. Andreae dated March 2, 1577, In: Adam Rechenberg (Ed.): Sylloge epistolarum BD Polycarpi Lyseri ... ex Mss. ... eruta et in unum volume congesta . Lanck Nachf., Leipzig 1706, p. 237.
  20. ↑ Bernhard Raupach: Evangelisches Oesterreich, that is historical news of the most distinguished fortunes of the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in the Arch-Duchy of Austria , Part I, Hamburg: Christoph Felginer Witwe 1732, p. 142f.
  21. ^ "Persona procera est, Opitium fere excedens" ; Epistolae , Hanau: Johann Aubrius Erben 1614, pp. 116–121 ( CERA edition at the Chair for Modern German Literature at the German Department of the University of Heidelberg in cooperation with the computer center and library of the University of Mannheim), cf. P. 1164.
  22. ↑ From Konstanz, enrolled in Vienna in 1557, preacher at the Sankt Marx Hospital in Vienna, with Heinrich Bullinger in Zurich in 1558 , enrolled in Tübingen, Dr. theol., pastor in Oberriexingen in 1559, in Backnang in 1560, pastor and rector in Klagenfurt in 1570, expelled there in 1575, pastor in Hernals in 1576 .
  23. ^ Letter from Polykarp Leyser to Jakob Andreae in Tübingen from March 2, 1577 from Göllersdorf.
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  32. ↑ Georg Eder by letter: “This is the common saying that Opitzius is still in the land of the horn with Mr. Veyt Albrechte von Pucham. What is certain is that his wife is there, there he may also go from time to time ” ; see. Karl Schrauf (Ed.): The Reichshofrath Dr. Georg Eder. A collection of letters as a contribution to the history of the Counter Reformation in Niederosterreich I. , Vienna: A. Holzhausen 1904, p. 234 ( digitized at archive.org), cf. Pp. 100f, 104, 160f, 166, 202, 205, 207, 217, 228, 233f, 245 and 256.
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  61. ^ Also the single sheet print Georg Wilhelm von Zinzendorf, Heinrich Reuss von Plauen, Caspar von Windischgrätz (1575–1595): Illuvstri ac generoso Domino, Dn. Reinprechto , Tobias Steinmann, Jena 1592, for the rector of the nobility Reinprecht von Pohlheim (1571–1615), a relative ("affinis") of Georg Wilhelm; Klaus Garber (Ed.): Handbook of personal occasional literature in European libraries and archives , Vol. XIX Breslau (university library ) . Olms, Hildesheim 2007, p. 132.
  62. ^ [Epigrammatum] VII. M. Iosvae Opitii, Generosi D. Georgij Guilelmi Baronis á Zinzendorf Moderatoris . In: Samuel Fischer (ed.): Rectoratvs illvstrissimi generosissimiqve Principis ac Domini D. Magni Dvcis Brunsuicensis & Lunaeburgensis… Adiuncto Prorectore Magnifico D. Nicolao Revsnero . Tobias Steinmann, Jena 1592 ( digitized version of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt Halle).
  63. ^ Franz Gall (edit.): The register of the University of Vienna , Vol. IV. Böhlau, Vienna 1974, pp. 53 and 504 (there written “Poitius” ).
  64. ↑ Leopold Senfelder: The imperial cemetery before the Schottentor . In: Reports and Mittheilungen des Alterthums-Verein zu Wien 36–37 (1902), pp. 215–272, especially p. 265.
  65. ^ Johann Baptist Suttinger: Verneuerte Observationes Practicae . Michael Endter, Nuremberg 1669, p. 122.
  66. ^ Duchess Anna Amalia Library Weimar (Stb 399, sheet 131).
  67. ↑ Misprint, correct: “1585.”; see above in the section "Büdingen" on the plague epidemic in 1585.
  68. ↑ Correct: Isa. 57.1 LUT .
  69. ↑ Zurich Central Library, signature ZB Alte Drucke III R 466.7.
  70. ^ Austrian National Library, collection of manuscripts and old prints.
  71. ↑ Wolfgang Waldner, see above
  72. ↑ the note "Vidit & approbauit M. Joshua Opitius" at the end of the text.
  73. ↑ Eferding was a refuge for the Flacians until the death of Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1534–1582). There, before his death, Hieronymus Haubold wrote the confession “ Formula veritatis. ” Signed by many Upper Austrian Gnesiolutherans . A thorough and thorough exposition of the high and important religious controversy about original sin. Sampt a previous supplication and offer to all Christian high and low resistance of the Augsp. Conference related persons , from several theologians, so pre-assigned conference. Psalm 119…, o. O. 1582 “( Google Books ).
  74. ^ Pastor in Hain-Gründau , 1579–1601 in Büdingen, deposed by Count Wolfgang Ernst von Isenburg-Büdingen (1560–1633), † after 1601.
  75. ↑ From Laubach, Magister, 1584–1589 Preceptor of Georg II. Burggraf von Kirchberg (1569–1641), a nephew of Count Heinrich von Ysenburg-Ronneburg (1537–1601), in Strasbourg, Basel, Geneva and Heidelberg.
personal data
SURNAME Opitz, Joshua
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Opitius, Iosva; Opicius, Joshua
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran (Flacian) theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1542
PLACE OF BIRTH Neukirchen / Pleiße
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1585
Place of death Büdingen