Kasper Goltwurm

Caspar Goltwurm, (also Athesinus ; * 1524 in Sterzing , † 1559 in Weilburg ) was a Lutheran theologian.

Life

Goltwurm initially studied in Tyrol and Italy, from 1539 at the University of Wittenberg with Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon . He then went to Marburg , where he accepted a position as court preacher in 1541 and in 1546 court preacher to Philip III. Nassau was. His term of office was interrupted by the Augsburg interim .

He again visited Wittenberg , also the University of Leipzig and the University of Jena . After the interruption, he returned to the County of Weilburg in 1548 . As superintendent, he conducted the visitations of the county's churches and schools and drafted the county's first church ordinance. He is considered to be the founder of the Protestant Nassau-Weilburg regional church, who held his last office until the end of his life.

From 1551 Goltwurm was also an advisor to Count Wilhelm von Nassau-Dillenburg , the father of Wilhelm von Oranien in the implementation of the Reformation in the county of Nassau-Dillenburg.

In literary terms, some writings from Goldwurm have survived that show a clear distancing from the allegorical interpretation of the writings of Catholic theology. From his conviction that the end of the world was imminent, he interprets in his "Wunderwerk und Wunderzeichen Buch" inexplicable occurrences as divine work and puts together miracle stories that he draws from historical and contemporary sources.

Selection of works

Schemata rhetorica Teutsch, Marburg 1545.
The beautiful and comforting Historia by Joseph, Wittenberg 1551.
The most noble, beautiful and comforting allegory and geystical meaning of the 1st book Moysi, Frankfurt am Main 1552.
A newes funny historical Calendarium, without location information 1553.
Calendarium Historicum, without location, 1554.
Wunderwerk und Wunderzeichen Buch, Frankfurt am Main 1557. Digitized
Prognosticon. Prophecies and Vrteyl, of afflictions and great fears Europe, Through…. Anthonium Torquatum gestelt, Frankfurt am Main 1558, 1561, Leipzig 1594.
Biblical Chronica, Frankfurt am Main 1558, 1564, 1576.
Church calendar, Frankfurt am Main 1559, 1561, 1564, 1570, 1574, 1576, 1583, 1588, 1597, 1612.
Miracle mark, Frankfurt 1567.
Truthful description of all noble, divine, spiritual, heavenly, elemental, earthly and diabolical miracles, Frankfurt 1573.

literature

Wolfgang Brückner: Goltwurm, Kaspar, in: Enzyklopädie des Märchen, Vol. 5, Berlin a. New York 1987, col. 1394-1396
Walther Killy : Literature Lexicon: Authors and works in the German language. (15 volumes) Gütersloh; Munich: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl. 1988–1991 (CD-ROM Berlin 1998 ISBN 3-932544-13-7 ) Vol. 4 p. 267
Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Allgemeine Gelehrtenlexicon, T. 2 Sp. 1059
Bernward Deneke: Kaspar Goltwurm. A Lutheran compiler between tradition and faith, in: Wolfgang Brückner (ed.): Volkserzählung und Reformation. A handbook on the transmission and function of narrative materials and narrative literature in Protestantism, Berlin 1974, pp. 124–177.
Index Bibliographicus Notorum Hominum, p. 433
Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography. Short biographies from 13th centuries, 2nd revised and expanded edition Wiesbaden 1992, 239 (1345).
Wolfgang Klose: The Wittenberger Scholar's Studbook: the studbook of Abraham Ulrich (1549–1577) and David Ulrich (1580–1623), Halle: Mitteldt. Verl., 1999, ISBN 3-932776-76-3
Max Siller (ed.): Kaspar Goldwurm Athesinus (1524–1559). On the 450th anniversary of his death. Files from the 6th Symposium of the Sterzing Easter Games (Sterzing, April 6-8, 2009). Innsbruck: Universitätsverlag Wagner, 2011 (= Schlern-Schriften 354). ISBN 978-3-7030-0486-5

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personal data
SURNAME	Goltwurm, Kasper
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Athesius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	1524
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sterzing
DATE OF DEATH	1559
Place of death	Weilburg