Konrad Sam

Konrad Sam (also Conrad Sam ; * around 1483 in Rottenacker ; † June 20, 1533 in Ulm ) was a Reformed German theologian and reformer of the city of Ulm.

Life

Sam attended the Latin school in Ulm and studied from 1498 at the University of Tübingen , 1505 to 1509 at the University of Freiburg . There he graduated as a licentiate in law. From 1515 he worked as a preacher at the town church of St. Jakobus in Brackenheim . After joining the Reformation around 1519 , he had to leave Brackenheim in 1524 and returned to Ulm, was accepted as a preacher by the city's magistrate and from then on campaigned for the Reformation with persuasiveness. He married Elisabeth, who came from Bavaria, and married Sam. After his death in 1533, the humanist Kaspar Brusch , Hofpfalzgraf and a poet crowned with the poet's crown, who had married Kunigunde, née Stumpf, in Ulm, lived with her .

Act

Konrad Sam made first contacts with the founder of the Reformation, Martin Luther , in 1520. Luther sent him a benevolent letter and some of his writings. He was also in contact with his fellow preacher from Ulm, Johann Eberlin von Günzburg .

Sam, who was able to win over the citizens of Ulm for the evangelical faith through his sermons, preached in the Ulm Minster . He engaged in disputes with numerous Catholic opponents, especially Johannes Eck . However, when he moved away from Martin Luther's thoughts and turned his attention more and more to Ulrich Zwingli's religious ideas , and also established relationships with Johannes Oekolampad , important religious questions arose for him and the parish in Ulm.

As a proponent of Zwingli's doctrine, Konrad Sam represented the thoughts of Wolfgang Capito , a mediator between the camps of Luther and Zwingli, but also of Andreas Althamer , an avowed Lutheran, in his catechism written in 1526 . His writing from 1531 with a new church order was rejected by the Ulm magistrate.

The ongoing Lord's Supper dispute between Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli weighed on the decisions of the Ulm magistrate, which was looking for a solution with the help of a committee of nine. In order to come to a church constitution, Martin Bucer was brought in, a mediator and author of the Confessio Tetrapolitana . Now the evangelical Lord's Supper was held in public and in 1532, one year before Konrad Sam's death, Ulm adopted the Confessio Augustana , based on the teachings of Luther.

Martin Frecht , who continued the Ulm Reformation more in the Lutheran sense, acted as the successor to Konrad Sam .

Works (selection)

• Catechism or Christian Children's Report , 1526.
• A beautiful and well-German green report for the common man, whether the leyb of Jesus Christ in heaven to seek the righteous God ... , 1526.
• Single-minded warrior and Christian understanding of the holy night of Jesus Christ , 1526.
• A consolation Büechlin for the klainmuttigen and simple, who got halfway through the split, grew out of the night mark of Christ , 1526.
• A forced reply by Conradi Saums, preacher of Ulm, to the unfruitful buochlin of Hansen Schradins von Rütlingen , 1527.
• Christian underweysung of the boys and Psalter of Davidis , 1529.
• Handtbüchlin understood in this is the order and knows how the sacraments and ceremonies of the churches in Ulm are used and held , 1531. The writing is considered the first Ulm church agenda

Honors

In Brackenheim the parish hall, in his place of birth Rottenacker a street and in the minster of the city of Ulm a chapel was named after Konrad Sam.

literature

• Ludwig Melchior Fischli: Memoria theologorum Wirtembergensium resuscitata I , Ulm 1710
• Georg Veesenmeyer: Message from Conrad Sam's… Leben , Ulm 1795
• Gustav Bossert: On the biography of the Ulm reformer Konrad Sam , in: Württembergische Vierteljahrshefte für Landesgeschichte 7, 1884
• Eberhard Nestle : Luther prints from Sam's library , in: Blätter für württ. Church History 9, 1894
• W. Gussmann: Sources and research on the history of the Augsburg Confession. 1, 1 Leipzig 1911, page 383
• Konrad Hoffmann: Konrad Sam (1483–1533), the preacher of the council of Ulm , in: Hans Eugen Specker and Gebhard Weig: The introduction of the Reformation in Ulm, research on the history of the city of Ulm 2 , 1981
• Bernd Breitenbruch: Sermon, treatise and pamphlet in the service of the Ulm Reformation , Weißenhorn 1981
• Gustav Bossert:  Sam, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 304-306.
• Hans Eugen Specker:  Sam, Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 403 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hermann Ehmer:  Konrad Sam. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 1280-1281.