Margarete Blarer

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Margarete Blarer even Margarete Blarer of greed mountain (* 1494 in Konstanz , † 15. November 1541 ibid), was mainly in the Reformation active deaconess .

Life

Margarete Blarer was born in Konstanz in 1494. Together with her father Augustin Blarer , she was at the head of Konstanz society. Her father was a merchant and councilor who died in 1504. He left behind his wife and six children, all of whom were in the care of the councilors of Constance. Like her siblings, Margarete enjoyed an excellent humanistic education. She learned Latin with her brothers. The older brother, Ambrosius Blarer , went to the Benedictine monastery in Alpirsbach for some time despite resistance from the councilors , but then fled back to his mother Katharina Blarer after his Reformation plans encountered headwinds. Thomas Blarer , Margarete's younger brother, became a follower of Martin Luther zu Wittenberg in the years after 1509 . Together with Konrad and Johannes Zwick , the city doctor Hans Menlishofer and the preacher Bernd Wanner, Margarete supported her brothers in carrying out the Reformation in the council city of Constance. In this humanist-minded group, she met Erasmus von Rotterdam in 1522 . She read and commented on theological writings and maintained close contacts with the Strasbourg reformer Martin Bucer and Katharina Zell , the wife of the local pastor Matthäus Zell . After her mother's death (1530), Margarete took over responsibility for her parents' house and business.

Margarete Blarer remained celibate. She refused marriage as well as entry into a monastery. She dedicated her life to caring for the elderly and the sick. She financed this through the linen trade she ran . Blarer's income also enabled her brothers to work undisturbed, unpaid work in the church. She founded a charity for Christian women and was active in self-sacrificing love as diaconissa ecclesiae Constantiensis . She looked after displaced persons, visited widows and orphans, taught poor children and cared for the sick in the houses and, during the plague of 1541, in the island monastery set up as a hospital . Eventually she fell ill with the plague herself and died on November 15, 1541 at the age of 47.

Remembrance day

November 28 in the Evangelical Name Calendar .

literature

Source writings

No written certificates have survived from Margarete Blarer; only Martin Bucer's letters to her have survived. Bucer's correspondence is currently being re-edited, letters to Margarete Blarer in:

  • Martin Bucer: Correspondence. Vol. 6 (Ed. Reinhold Friedrich et al.), Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006, ISBN 978-9-00415-494-0 .
  • Traugott Schieß (ed.): Correspondence between the brothers Ambrosius and Thomas Blaurer. Vol. 2 Appendix. Freiburg 1910. Bucer's letters to Blarer do not always contain the original, but also translations, paraphrases and summaries.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Margarete Blarer House
  2. ↑ a b Margarete Blar senior center
  3. ↑ Erasmus of Rotterdam: Colloquia Familiaria. Familiar conversations. With comments by Werner Welzig , Magnus Verlag Darmstadt, 1967, p. 263 ff., ISBN 3-88400-219-8 .
  4. ↑ Uwe Birnstein: Margarete Blarer. In: Who is Who of the Reformation, Kreuz Verlag, Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-61252-7 . P. 52.
  5. ↑ Urte Bejick: Margarete Blarer (1493-1541). Humanist, reformer and deacon in Constance. In: Adelheid M. von Hauff (Hrsg.): Women shape Diakonie, Vol. 1: From the biblical time to Pietism , Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-17-022572-5 , pp. 295-304.
  6. ↑ Margarete Blarer in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
personal data
SURNAME Blarer, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giersberg, Margarete Blaurer from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German deaconess and reformer
DATE OF BIRTH 1494
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1541
Place of death Constancy