Magnus Agricola

Magnus Agricola (* around 1556 in Holzheim (near Neu-Ulm) ; † September 28 or 29, 1605 in Neuburg an der Donau ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian . In 1601 he was significantly involved in the Regensburg Religious Discussion .

Life

Magnus Agricola spent his childhood near Ulm . He was a nephew of Peter Agricola , a master's degree and humanist of the Renaissance, to whom he owed his scientific education.

His grandfather Magnus Agricola was an innkeeper and judge at Holzheim and a former student at Ingolstadt . He had lived in Rome with a cardinal and follower of the Benedictine order (Jean de Bilheres de Lagraulas), because he originally wanted to join the Elchingen monastery . Through the nepotism at the Holy See by Pope Alexander VI. and because of the war behavior of the future Pope Julius II , however, he took part in the war in Italy . Agricola's grandfather fought with the royal troops under King Charles VIII of France from 1494 to 1497 before returning to Germany . There he studied the writings of Martin Luther .

Magnus Agricola studied from 1566 at the Illustre von Lauingen grammar school , where his uncle was rector, before becoming princely councilor and minister of state for the dukes of Zweibrücken and Pfalz-Neuburg . On the recommendation of his uncle, with financial support from Duke Philipp Ludwig , Count Palatine of Neuburg, he was able to go to Wuerttemberg for further studies at the University of Tübingen in 1576 . There he was enrolled on January 5, 1576 as Magnus Agricola Holtzensis and studied until 1582. He completed his studies as a Baccalaureus on March 27, 1577 and as a Magister on July 30, 1578 from.

From 1582 to 1583 he was the deacon of St. Peter in Neuburg, from 1583 to 1599 pastor in the Frauenkirche in Neuburg, from 1599 to 1603 court deacon of Neuburg and from 1603 until his death pastor and superintendent.

Agricola took part in the religious talks in Neuburg in 1593 (Lutherans against Calvinists) and in Regensburg in 1601 (Lutherans against Catholics) as the theologian of the Duke of Neuburg.

Magnus Agricola is the author of several works. The most famous of the Catholic Christian Doctrine of the Augsburg Confession and the Non-Catholic Heyden Addict Papacy was published in 1599 and again in 1602.

From 1602 to 1605 he worked on the construction of the new church (Frauenkirche) in Neuburg until the end of his life. He died of a stroke on the night of September 28-29, 1605. At the funeral, Jacob Heilbrunner , court preacher of Pfalz-Neuburg, said that Magnus Agricola was known to all of his colleagues, superintendents, pastors, teachers of the principality and his parishioners as a very active, honest, hardworking man.

family

Agricola had been married to Anna Maria Motz, the daughter of the princely chief customs officer of Pfalz-Neuburg, since January 10, 1586. She belonged to the family of Dietrich (Theodor) Hess, princely. Council of the Duke of Neuburg and Ambassador to Denmark , Northern Germany and London , who was also permanent Ambassador to Paris for many years .

Agricola's son, a master's degree from the University of Wittenberg, and his grandson, a former student at the universities of Tübingen, Strasbourg and Wittenberg, also became Lutheran pastors, as did Johannes Münderlein , his daughter's husband, the last Lutheran superintendent of Neuburg (1617) and then Superintendent of Regensburg.

Works

• Propositiones de Creation. Disputationis gratia propositae in Collegio Lauingano, December 2nd. Anno 1575. Praeside M. PHILIPPO HAILBRUNNERO, Theologiae professore: Respondente vero MAGNO AGRICOLA Holtzensi. Lauingen: Philippus ULHARDUS , 1575. 16 p. (ex. Studienb. Dillingen, BSB Munich)
• Disputatio, DE SCRIPTURAE SACROSANCTAE INTERPRETATIONE. Sancta et individuae Triadis auspicio, Authore & Praeside, JACOBO HEERBRANDO DOCTORE ET PROFESSORE SS Theologiae in inclyta Tubingensi Academia, Rectorea Magnifico, Praeceptore suo omniobservantia colendo. M. Magnus Agricola Holtzensis, February 3 in Aula nova, hora septima, exercitis causa, pro virili respondebit. Tübingen: Alexander HOGGIUM , 1582. 28 p. (ex. Weissenburg Council Library)
• Christian funeral sermons, about the funeral, Weilund des Ehrnvesten Hochgelerten Herr Johann Frölichs von Laugingen, the right Doctorn and the princely Pfalzgràvischen Raths zu Neuburg an der Donaw so the places, April 17th, this running Jars, blessedly in Christ different: Held on the 19th Aprilis / By M. Magnum Agricolam, pastors at our Frawen there. Lauingen: Leonhardt REINMICHEL , 1594. 28 p. (ex. Bibl. St. Mang. Kempten, Eichstätt)
• Christian funeral sermons, about the funeral, Weilund des Ehrenvesten Herr Pauli Rabus von Memmingen, Princely Pfaltzgrävischen Lehenprobsts, Secretaries and Registrars at Neuburg an der Donaw: Held on October 4th, Anno 1594. By M. Magnum Agricolam, pastors to our Frawen there. Lauingen: Leonhard REINMICHEL, 1594 . 19 p. (ex. SB Augsburg et StB Nördlingen)
• From the Catholic Christian Doctrine of the Augspurgian Confession, Vnd the Uncatholischer Heydensuchtigen Pope: Against the Papal Restraint, That through the release of the Augspurgischer Confession a Catholic, new, angry confusion in the Christian Church is tolerated or released, and thereby to the reintroduction of the complete confusion of a Christian barbaric paganism and Egyptian darkness are given cause , Lauingen, Leonhardt REINMICHEL, 1599. 302 p. (ex.BNU Strasbourg, SB Augsburg, Studienb. Dillingen, FB Gotha, BSB Munich, State B. Regensburg, LB Stuttgart, HAB Wolfenbüttel)
• Narratio Historica de Vita et Obitu M. Petri Agricolae, Consiliarii Palatini Neuburgici, ac Bipontini, Conscripta à M. Magno Agricola, Pastore gregis Dominici ad B.Mariam Virginem, Neuburgi. IN: Oratio In Obitvm Clarissimi, Atqve Omni Liberali Scientia politissimi viri, ... Petri Agricolae, quondam ... Philippi Lvdovici, & D. Ioannis, Com. Palatinorum Rheni, & Boiariae Ducum, fratrum Praeceptoris, & postea Consiliarij: Habita In Schola Palatinâ Lauinganâ / à S. Ostermanno, IV Doctore, eiusdem scholae Rectore. Lauingen: Vve Leonhard REINMICHEL, 1600 . 63f. (Studienb. Dillingen, University Library Heidelberg, State B. Neuburg / Donau (loss), State B. Regensburg)
• Thorough proof / that it was not / That the Augspurgische Confession would lead to the reintroduction of a barbaric heyday. And opposition to such an introduction is much more the objectionable papal accusation: Against the papal and this year again printed book of the Autonomia, in which the Christian doctrine of the Augspurgischer Confession intended heydenthum [m] is assigned / by M. Magnum Agricolam, Pastor of Newburg an der Thonaw. Lauingen: Jacob WINTER, published by Sebastian MÜLLER , 1602. 301p. (ex. UB Halle, LB Stuttgart, BU Wrocław)

swell

• Magnus Agricola in: Supplement to the Basel General Historical Lexicon , 1742.
• Magnus Agricola in: Messages from Scholars, Artists and Other Strange People from Ulm , Albrecht Weyermann , 1829.
• Magnus Agricola a écrit en allemand un livre, pour prouver qu'il n'est pas vrai que par la confession d'Augsbourg, on donne lieu au rétablissement du Panagisme, et un autre de la catholique confession d'Augsbourg, aussi en allemand In : Le grand dictionaire historique ou Le mélange curieux de l'Histoire sacrée et profane. Edited by Louis Moréri , Desaint et Saillant, Paris, 1759.