Konrad Schmid (reformer)

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Konrad Schmid (* 1476 in Küsnacht ; † October 11, 1531 in Kappel am Albis ) was a Swiss reformer and friend of Ulrich Zwingli .

Life

Born as the son of a wealthy farmer, Schmid received his Magister Artium from the University of Tübingen in 1505 . Then he joined the Johanniter Commandery Küsnacht . At the age of forty, he completed his theology studies at the University of Basel with a bachelor's degree in 1516 . After a brief activity as a people's priest in Seengen from 1517, he became Commander of the Johanniter Commandery Küsnacht in 1519 .

Access to the Reformation came through writings that Ulrich Zwingli, whose ardent campaigner he became, had conveyed to him. In 1522 Schmid was invited to the Museggumgang in Lucerne as a guest preacher , where he was able to spread his reformatory views outside Zurich for the first time. Schmid reacted to the resulting controversy with a first publication ( Brother Konrad Schmid's answer , 1522). As a participant in the 1st and 2nd Zurich Disputation in 1523, Schmid stood out for his level-headed votes for the veneration of saints and against iconoclasm . Later he was again active as a journalist in the fight against the Anabaptists (1527) and as a participant in the Bern disputation of 1528.

Schmid married in 1525. He died on October 11, 1531 at the side of his friend Zwingli in the battle of Kappel . Conrad Ferdinand Meyer thought of it in a fragment of a novel and in the poem Der Rappe des Komtur .

Works

  • Antwurt Bruoder Conradt Schmids, Sant Johansen Ordens Commenthür zuo Küssnach am Zurich Lake, uff quite a few Wyderred dero so the sermon by jn gethonin the praiseworthy Lucern, having scolded and scolded, encountering Christ a united, eternal Houpt syner Kilchen, governor and for Bitter syge: printed in the jar after the birth of Christ do man zalt . 1522, DOI: 10.3931 / e-rara-948 .
  • A Christian embrace of real hope in God and a warning against the reproachful opposition who abwyset from God: to the Christian Amplüt zuo Grünigen / by Cuonrad Schmid, Komptür zuo Küssnach on Lake Zurich . Printed to Zurich: by Christoffel Froschouer. 1527.
  • They preach in this way from the devout preachers who have all been heard about the conversation or disputation. Discard the articles and stuck, so the repercussions on the conversation to Bernn in front of the first big wheel. By Cuonraden Schmid, Commenthür zuo Küssnacht am Zürich See . - Printed in Zurich by Christophorum Froschouer, jm 1528 jar, DOI: 10.3931 / e-rara-3026 .
  • A Christian report by Herr Nachtmals with a clear understanding of his words used in it / by Cuonrad Schmid, a servant of the word zuo Küssnach on Lake Zurich, with an unscrupulous speech added to him, half of the thanksgiving, not from the ministers in the Zug instead . Zurich 1530, DOI: 10.3931 / e-rara-1785 .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Der Rappe des Comturs  - Sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss reformer
DATE OF BIRTH 1476
PLACE OF BIRTH Küsnacht ZH
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1531
Place of death Kappel am Albis