Ludwig Rabus

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Ludwig Rabus (also: Rab or Günzer ; * around October 10, 1523 in Memmingen ; † July 22, 1592 in Ulm ) was a Lutheran theologian and confessionalist. In the church service he held the office of superintendent .

Life

Title page of the sixth part of Ludwig Rabus' Book of Saints and Martyrs, 1557

Ludwig Rabus came to Strasbourg as a poor student from the Rabgen family. Günzer was accepted by the minster preacher Matthäus Zell and his wife Katharina . In 1538 he went to study in Tübingen , where he obtained his master's degree in 1543 . In the following year he became Zell’s helper and, thanks to his preaching gift, was able to succeed Zell’s successor in 1548 despite his youth.

He soon lost this position through the Augsburg interim , but stayed in Strasbourg. In 1552 he became head of the Collegium Wilhelmitanum and teacher at the grammar school. In 1553 he received the doctoral degree together with Jacob Andreae in Tübingen . When the Strasbourg council preferred Johannes Marbach to him, he left the city and went to Ulm as pastor and dean , where he worked for 34 years.

Nevertheless, he dedicated his “Martyr's Book” to the Council of Strasbourg. In the dispute over Kaspar Schwenckfeld , he wrote against Katharina Zell, who defended him. His work was of great importance for Ulm. He ensured a uniform teaching orientation, held several visitations, introduced church registers about official acts in the communities and supported Andreae in his efforts to achieve the Swabian Agreement . Admittedly, his zeal for faith sometimes exceeded the usual limits and was viewed in Strasbourg as fanaticism. Rabus was a child of his time in it.

Family coat of arms

Ottheinrich , Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke in Lower and Upper Bavaria, awarded the brothers Ludwig, Jakob and Paul Rabus a coat of arms on September 11, 1553, "which they had previously lacked". The original coat of arms letter contains the painted picture of the coat of arms in the center, (10.3 cm high and 8 cm wide). The core is the shield. ".. divided into three equal tails over egkh, the upper and lower velldung from Rotter and the medium from white color and in each white velldung three numbers so the number four compare each one ains after the other steende of black colors ... .. "

Ottheinrich's seal hangs on the certificate on white / blue strings, embedded in a large wax disc that is kept in an artistically carved box made of boxwood.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Published on the cover of the Blätter für Fränkische Familienkunde , Volume 34, 2011, together with an old essay by Karl and Bernhard Rabus (see literature) based on a manuscript from the Nuremberg City Archives , signature E1 / 1346.

literature

  • Bernhard Appenzeller:  Rabus, Ludwig. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 1177-1180.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Karl Rabus and Bernhard Rabus: Rabus family - family register and birth register of the 16th and 17th centuries (transfer of a manuscript) . In: Blätter für Franconian Family Studies , ed. from the Society for Family Research in Franconia, Volume 34, 2011
  • TW Röhrich: Mittheilungen from the history of the Protestant Church of Alsace , Volume 3, Strasbourg 1855, p. 152, 172
  • Robert Stupperich: The woman in journalism during the Reformation period , 1955, p. 226 (= work on church history 37)
  • Julius August Wagenmann:  Rabus, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 97-99.

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personal data
SURNAME Rabus, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rab, Ludwig; Gunzer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and confessionalist
DATE OF BIRTH around October 10, 1523
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmingen
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1592
Place of death Ulm