Kaspar Schatzgeyer

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Caspar Schatzgeyer (also: Caspar Schatzger , lat. Sasgerus * 1463 or 1464 in Landshut , † 18th September 1527 in Munich ) was a Franciscan , a controversial theologian of the Reformation .

Life

Caspar Schatzger was born in Landshut around 1463, where he received his basic training in the monastery of the Friars Minor (Franciscans). From 1480 he studied in Ingolstadt and completed his studies with the Baccalaureus Artium . He made his profession as a Franciscan around 1482 . It is not known where he subsequently began his theological studies. He was repeatedly available to his order as lecturer of theology, for example from 1487 in Landshut, from 1489 to 1496 in Ingolstadt and from 1496 in Munich, where he was additionally occupied as a guardian from 1499 to 1508 . From 1510 to 1514 he was again active as a lecturer and preacher in Ingolstadt. He had been friends with Johannes Eck since his time in Ingolstadt . From 1514 to 1517 and from 1520 to 1523 he was provincial minister of his order province , the Upper German or Strasbourg Franciscan province . In this function he got to know the upheaval of the times on his numerous reform and visitation trips. From 1517 to 1520 he was Guardian in the Nuremberg monastery , where he made the acquaintance of Caritas Pirckheimer .

Several times he had to take action against members of the order who were reformation-minded. In 1521 he opposed the Ulm preacher Eberlin von Günzburg . On a visitation trip to Basel in 1522 , he had to take action against some of the Franciscans who were described as Lutheran. The planned transfer of his friend, the Guardian Konrad Pellikan , and the preacher Johannes Lüthard prevented the Council of Basel. In 1523 Schatzgeyer was appointed Inquisitor of the German and neighboring provinces at the General Chapter of Burgos . In the same year he was appointed Guardian in Munich. There he died on September 18, 1527 and was buried in the choir of the Munich Franciscan Church.

effect

Title page of a pamphlet against Andreas Osiander, 1525.

Among the controversial theologians of the Reformation era, in contrast to Eck, Emser and Murner , Schatzger is considered a more moderate representative who avoided personal polemics . His first scripture against Luther , Scrutinium divinae scripturae pro conciliatione dissidentium dogmatum , from 1522 , he himself named a reconciliation script . Luther, on the other hand, described Scripture as a "pathetic attempt to reconcile the Holy Scriptures and scholasticism ". In the following writings, Schatzgeyer dealt primarily with the defense of monasticism , the veneration of saints , the mass and purgatory . Besides Luther, he also got into personal arguments with the reformers Bucer , Osiander , Schwarzenberg , Lambert von Avignon , Briesmann and others.

At the instigation of the Bavarian Chancellor Leonhard von Eck , a complete edition of the Latin scripts was published in 1543. Nevertheless, his work remained in the background behind the writings of other controversial theologians of his time.

Works (selection)

  • Scrutinium divinae scripturae pro conciliatione dissidentium dogmatum . Munich 1522. (Münster 1922)
  • From the dear holy message and appeals to the first teütsch Büechlin, Item Vil mer matters in jnn jm beginning, then going out in Latin . Munich 1523
  • From the warning Christian and Evangelical freedom a printed declaration with twelve Christian empty spaces, and then with twenty insane empty reluctant ones . Munich 1524
  • Declaration of goods and changes to the article regarding the divorce . Munich 1524
  • Washing up of the unflat, so Andreas Osiander spat into Gaspar Schatzger's face. Understanding in ir two materi, those first from our dear Lord's testament, the others from the sacrifice of mess . Landshut 1525.
  • From the purgatory or perfect refinement of the out-of-the-cloud, That through the gratitude of Christ, purgatory is not extinguished . Munich 1525
  • Omnia opera, reverendi ac perdeuoti patris F. Gasparis Schatzgeri, Bauari Minoritarum Ministri prouincialis, de obseruantia per superiorem Germaniam, pro synceritate fidei ac euangelicae ueritatis . First complete edition. Ingolstadt 1543.

Literature (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nikolaus Paulus: Kaspar Schatzgeyer, a pioneer of the Catholic Church against Luther in southern Germany . Freiburg im Breisgau 1898, p. 7.
  2. ^ Gerhard Philipp Wolf: Schatzgeyer, Kaspar . In: TRE , Volume 30, pp. 76-80, here p. 76.
  3. ^ Gerhard Philipp Wolf: Schatzgeyer, Kaspar . In: TRE , Volume 30, pp. 76-80, here p. 77.
  4. ^ Gerhard Philipp Wolf: Schatzgeyer, Kaspar . In: TRE , Volume 30, pp. 76-80, here p. 78.
personal data
SURNAME Schatzgeyer, Kaspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schatzger, Caspar; Sasgerus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic controversial theologian of the Reformation period
DATE OF BIRTH 1463 or 1464
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1527
Place of death Munich