Leonhard Brunner

Leonhard Brunner , also Fontanus (* around 1500 in Esslingen am Neckar , † December 20, 1558 in Landau in the Palatinate ) was a German Lutheran theologian, educator and reformer.

Live and act

Brunner came to Strasbourg in the early 20s of the 16th century and became a student of Jakob Wimpheling . He drew attention to himself by publishing a concordance of the New Testament . He took over the church service as a deacon at Alt St. Peter in Strasbourg, where he worked in the sense of the Strasbourg theology.

In 1527 he was appointed as the first evangelical preacher to Worms by the city council, where he fought against the Anabaptists and carried out the Reformation in his twenty years of service. He was expelled from this activity in 1548 by the Augsburg Interim . He fled again to Strasbourg. Here he turned first to the school service, and due to his organizational talent he was appointed to conduct the preachers' college. When the position of deacon at St. Nikolai became vacant in 1550, he took it over.

In 1553 the preacher, known throughout the Palatinate from Worms , moved to Landau in the Palatinate, where he remained until his death in 1558. In his theological direction he undoubtedly belongs to the Upper Lands, but turned more to the Gnesiolutherans in the theological disputes .

Works

• Concordantz of the New Testament , 1524
• Concordantz vnd zeyger of all biblical books alts vnd news Testaments , 1530
• Billiche answers Lienhart Brunners from heyliger schrifft ... den christl. believe re. , 1530
• Lienhart Brunner's Christian Contemplation of how to hold oneself with the sick and the dying , 1531
• Book of examples Marci Antonii Sabellici of whimsical stories ..., re-Germanized by ML Brunner , 1535
• Catechism and Instruction for Christian Faith , 1543 (only fragments preserved)

literature

• Marie-Joseph Bopp: The Protestant clergy and theologians in Alsace and Lorraine from the Reformation to the present . Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1959. (= library of family history sources; 14)
• August Weckerling: Leonhard Brunner, the first evangelical preacher (1527-1548) employed by the council of the imperial city of Worms . Boeninger, Worms 1895.
• Ney:  Brunner, Leonhard . In: Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church (RE). 3. Edition. Volume 3, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1897, pp. 510-511.
• Georg Biundo :  Brunner, Leonhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 683 ( digitized version ).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  Brunner (Fontanus), Leonhard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 770.