Kunemann Flinsbach

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Kunemann Flinsbach , also Cunmannus Flinsbachius (born June 24, 1527 in Bergzabern , † September 11, 1571 in Zweibrücken ), was a German Lutheran theologian and reformer .

Life

Kunemann Flinsbach was a son of "the god-fearing and not uneducated" Jakob Flinsbach. His grandfather, Peter Flinsbach, a relative of Melanchthon , was the first teacher in Bergzabern and later a scribe himself. After attending school in Bergzabern, he continued his studies as a high school student in Strasbourg. He learned Latin from Johannes Sturm , Greek from Johann Winter von Andernach ( Johannes Guinterius Andernacus ) and Hebrew from Paul Fagius .

On May 29, 1546 he was enrolled at the University of Wittenberg as a scholarship holder of the Prince of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . Under Melanchthon's direction, he studied theology, languages, history, mathematics and physics. As early as 1549 he passed the master’s examination. After that he was initially a private teacher in Wittenberg for two years. When the university in Wittenberg was closed as a result of the plague, he returned to Strasbourg. On the recommendation of Melanchthon, he was called to Zweibrücken in 1552 by the Prince of Zweibrücken as the second pastor alongside Michael Hilsbach. After Hilsbach's death in 1570 he became the first pastor. He held the office of superintendent until his death.

He was called to Mömpelgard and the Hanau region as a reformer of the church system.

Count Palatine Wolfgang sent Flinsbach to Trier in 1559 to support the evangelical movement of Caspar Olevian . However, he could not prevent all Protestant Trier citizens from leaving the city by December 27, 1559 and going into exile. It was not until 1784, with the edict of tolerance by the enlightened Elector Klemens Wenzeslaus, that Protestants were allowed to stay in Trier again, subject to certain restrictions.

Flinsbach was a regular visitor from 1553. After the rear county of Sponheim fell to the Principality of Zweibrücken in 1559 , he carried out the visitation in 1560 on behalf of Count Palatine Wolfgang.

Flinsbach died of poisoning at the age of 44 after a visitation trip to Veldenz on the Moselle. It was rumored that this was probably done by a Catholic clergyman.

A stone monument with an inscription was placed on the wall of the sacristy of the Alexander Church in Zweibrücken. However, this was destroyed in World War II.

Flinsbach's first wife (married on October 30, 1553) was called Catharina. This was very likely the daughter of Peter Keßler, even if you can occasionally read that she was the daughter of the mayor Hans Wirt. After his first wife probably died of the plague in October 1564 (buried on October 2, 1564 in Zweibrücken), he married Magdalena, the widow of Heinrich Hutmacher (who, like five children in the September 1564 died of the plague). From this second marriage came u. a. the son Johann Gallus Flinsbach (~ January 27, 1566 in Zweibrücken), who became a medic.

Fonts

  • Confirmatio ... , Strasbourg 1552
  • Instruction ... , Strasbourg 1555
  • Zweibrücken church order from 1559
  • Chronologia , Strasbourg 1567
  • Genealogia Christi , Basel 1567

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Melchior Adam : Vitae Germanorum Theologorum [...] . Frankfurt [Main], 1620, pp. 458-461
  2. ^ Julius Ney: The Reformation in Trier (1559) and their suppression , Leipzig 1907
  3. ^ Heinrich Engelbert, Günther Engelbert: The visitation in the back Grafschaft Sponheim from 1560 , Düsseldorf 1969
  4. ↑ Hans Fuchs; Alfred Hans Kuby: Investigations about the godparents in the first Protestant church book Zweibrücken 1564–1607 , Saarbrücken 1972, p. 33.73
  5. ↑ Hans Fuchs; Alfred Hans Kuby: Investigations about the godparents in the first Protestant church book Zweibrücken 1564–1607 , Saarbrücken 1972, p. 33

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personal data
SURNAME Flinsbach, Kunemann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flinsbachius, Cumannus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian and reformer
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1527
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergzabern
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1571
Place of death Zweibrücken