Lazarus Spengler

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Lazarus Spengler
Albrecht Dürer : Bookplate for Lazarus Spengler (1515)

Lazarus Spengler (born March 13, 1479 in Nuremberg ; † September 7, 1534 there ) was a councilor and an important supporter of the Reformation in Nuremberg.

Life

He was the son of a Nuremberg council clerk and after the death of his father, due to which he broke off his studies in Leipzig after only two years, in 1496 he himself joined the city council's office . In 1507 he was promoted to the “foremost” council clerk , i.e. head of the chancellery, and from 1516 was himself councilor in the “greater council”. He sympathized early on with the movement of Martin Luther and wrote writings through which he brought Reformation ideas to the people. He belonged to the “ Ursula Brotherhood ” and the “ Sodalitas Staupitziana ” and defended the teaching of Martin Luther in his writing

Protective red and Christian answer ains mercy, lover of divine truth of the hailig written ... ,

which was published in 1519 without his knowledge. That is why he and Luther fell under the papal ban in 1520 , which, however, was lifted again in 1521 after Spengler's external submission.

As a representative of the city of Nuremberg, he traveled to the Reichstag in Worms in 1521 , where his personal encounter with Luther confirmed his attitude. He continued to campaign for the Reformation and protected Andreas Osiander , the preacher of the Lorenz Church . As a representative of the evangelical alliance policy, Spengler negotiated cautiously with the episcopate of Bamberg against their threatened church and legal attacks.

In 1525 the Reformation finally prevailed in Nuremberg. In the same year, at Spengler's instigation and in collaboration with Philipp Melanchthon, the Schottenstift St. Egidien was converted into the first Protestant grammar school in Nuremberg (later: Melanchthon grammar school ). As a consultant, Spengler exerted influence on the Reformation of the Franconian margraves of Brandenburg Ansbach and Brandenburg Kulmbach in 1526/28 . He was a participant in the Augsburg Reichstag in 1530 and made important contributions to the Brandenburg- Nuremberg Church Order of 1533, which became a role model and model.

His grave is in the Johannisfriedhof (Nuremberg) (grave no. 1319).

Works

His writings include the texts of the hymns Through Adam's fall, human nature and beings are completely corrupted (1520) and all labor and food are in vain , as well as:

  • One mercy libhabers divine warheyt (1520)
  • Ermanung and Undterweysung to a virtuous change (1520)
  • Ain consoling Christian instruction and ertzney in all disgusting kaiten (1521)
  • A brief concept of and instruction of a wholehearted Christian nature (1522)
  • Responsibility and Dissolution (1524)
  • How a Christian should comfort himself in tribulation and adversity (1529)
  • Extract from the papal rights (1530)
  • the complete Creed , published in 1535 with a personal preface by Luther.

Remembrance day

September 7th in the evangelical name calendar .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lazarus Spengler in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
personal data
SURNAME Spengler, Lazarus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor and promoter of the Reformation in Nuremberg
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1479
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1534
Place of death Nuremberg