Leonhard Dorfbrunner

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Leonhard Dorfbrunner (* unknown; † 1528 in Passau ) was an evangelist and martyr of the South German Anabaptist movement .

Life

So far, there is no reliable information about Leonhard Dorfbrunner's origins and youth. The history of his life and impact can only be determined from the writings of contemporaries whose lives he left a lasting mark on. After that, Dorfbrunner was wealthy and initially a knight of the Teutonic Order in Weißenburg in Central Franconia . In 1524 he settled in Bamberg to ordain priests . Only for a short time did he earn his living as a traveling salesman and sold products from the cutlery industry. In the spring of 1527 he came into contact with the Styrian Anabaptist community and was baptized by Hans Hut on Pentecost .

Immediately after his baptism he was called to be an Anabaptist evangelist together with Jerome Hermann, Leonhard Schiemer and Jakob Portner . In this capacity, Dorfbrunner first traveled to Salzburg and Munich , where he baptized Jörg Schechner , who later became the Nuremberg Mastersinger and spiritualist , and took part in the Augsburg Synod of Martyrs in August 1527 . There he belonged to the faction around Hans Hut and was called together with Hänslin Mittermeier from Ingolstadt to be a missionary of the Anabaptist movement in Austria . The city of Linz was to be the starting point for its Austrian effectiveness . After the Steyrian Anabaptist congregation dissolved due to persecution, a new congregation had formed in Linz. It is not known whether Dorfbrunner reached Linz. A stay in Linz could have only lasted a few days.

However, there is evidence that Dorfbrunner was effective in Augsburg from the end of September 1527. By the end of that year he had baptized around one hundred people who were subsequently persecuted, mistreated and, in large part, executed for their beliefs. Elisabeth Hegenmiller and Anna Benedikt were also among those baptized by Dorfbrunner . In the first quarter of 1528 Leonhard Dorfbrunner baptized over three thousand people.

In January 1528, Dorfbrunner wanted to travel to Linz. On the way there or on the way back to Augsburg, he was arrested in Passau, tortured and finally burned at the stake .

Christening succession

The line of baptismal succession goes with Leonhard Dorfbrunner via Hans Hut (Whitsun 1526), Hans Denck (spring 1526), Balthasar Hubmaier (Easter 1525), Wilhelm Reublin (January 1525), Jörg Blaurock (January 1525) to Konrad Grebel (January 1525) back. The dates in brackets indicate the respective baptism date. Evidence of this can be found in the biography articles of the persons mentioned.

literature

  • Christian Hege, Christian Neff: Mennonite Lexicon , Volume 4, Frankfurt & Weierhof 1913.
  • Ders .: Dorfbrunner, Leonhard (d. 1528), in: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online , 1956; Web. September 12, 2010. online ; accessed on September 14, 2010.
  • Alexander Nicoladoni: Johannes Bünderlin of Linz and the Upper Austrian Anabaptist communities in the years 1525–1531 . Berlin 1893: pp. 205ff
  • Friedrich Roth: Augsburgs Reformationsgeschichte , Munich 1901, pp. 234–262.
  • Ders .: On the history of the Anabaptists in Upper Swabia , Volume II: On the life story of Eitelhans Langenmantels von Augsburg , Augsburg 1900, pp. 15-27.
  • Ders .: On the history of the Anabaptists in Upper Swabia , Volume III: The climax of the Anabaptist movement in Augsburg and its decline in 1528 , Augsburg 1901, pp. 7–115.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Guderian: The Anabaptists in Augsburg. Their history and their legacy. A contribution to the 2000th anniversary of the city of Augsburg , Pfaffenhofen 1984, ISBN 3-7787-2063-5 , p. 39.
  2. ^ Franklin H. Littell: The Self-Understanding of Anabaptists , Kassel 1966, p. 179.
  3. ^ Hans Guderian: The Anabaptists in Augsburg. Their history and their legacy. A contribution to the 2000th anniversary of the city of Augsburg , Pfaffenhofen 1984, ISBN 3-7787-2063-5 , p. 41.
  4. ^ Hans Guderian: The Anabaptists in Augsburg. Their history and their legacy. A contribution to the 2000th anniversary of the city of Augsburg , Pfaffenhofen 1984, ISBN 3-7787-2063-5 , p. 44.
  5. ↑ Tim Kuepfer: The Demise of the Anabaptist Missionary Vision. From the Sixteenth Century Brethren to the Present-Day Amish and Conservative Mennonites  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: History of Chrianity , Volume II, 2001, p. 3; accessed on September 14, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lukekuepfer.com  
personal data
SURNAME Dorfbrunner, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Anabaptist preacher, martyr
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 1528
Place of death Passau