Matthäus Vogel (theologian)

Matthäus Vogel (also: Orneus ; born September 7, 1519 in Nuremberg ; † December 3, 1591 in Alpirsbach ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Leonhard Vogel's son came from a humble background. He had attended the St. Sebald School in Nuremberg and in 1534 began studying at the University of Tübingen . From there he moved in 1536 under the rectorate of Justus Jonas the Elder to the University of Wittenberg , where he attended the lectures of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon for five years . Then he became a teacher in Nuremberg, but continued his studies in Wittenberg, where he became a baccalaureate on April 6, 1541 and a master's degree in philosophical sciences on September 11, 1543 under the dean's office of Andreas Aurifaber . In 1544 he went to Lauf an der Pegnitz as a pastor and in 1548 as a deacon at the Jakobskirche in Nuremberg .

However, since he opposed the Augsburg Interim , he lost his position. In 1549 this event took him to Prussia, to the town of Labiau and in 1550 to Wehlau , where he was pastor for four years. In 1554 he moved to the Königsberg Cathedral as a preacher and in 1557 took over the professorship of theology at the University of Königsberg . At the Königsberg University he also took part in the organizational tasks and was rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semesters 1559/60 and 1563/64 .

He had also earned the recognition of his employer Albrecht von Prussia , who, among other things, commissioned him with a new version of the Prussian church order. As a supporter of Andreas Osiander's doctrine of justification , he was attacked by his opponents, especially Joachim Mörlin , and in 1566 had to give up his position in Königsberg due to the Osiander dispute . He went to Württemberg. After six months in Kirchheim, he found a new field of activity as a pastor in Hornberg in 1568 . In 1571 he became special superintendent and pastor in Göppingen and in 1579 Princely Württemberg councilor and abbot of Alpirsbach .

Works

• Dialogue or conversation of a poor sinner with Moses and Christ about the justification of faith from the Holy Scriptures. 1557
• Refutation of the unfounded answer D: Joach. Mörlins on my book, which I was forced to write against him through his letter of blasphemy. 1558
• Answer to D. Joach.Mörlin's Apologiam in Braunschweig. Koenigsberg 1558
• Two sermons about the washing of the feet of Christ. Koenigsberg 1558.
• Consolation or souls-Arzney book, in which 105 the toughest temptations and crosses, so that pious Christians in the world are tormented, are composed. Frankfurt 1572, 1618
• Biblical treasury in 7 parts. Frankf. and Tübingen, 1572, 1585, 1592, 1603, 1607, 1708
• Summarized extract from the treasury. Tübingen 1588, 1611
• Thesaurus theologicus ex sola S. Scriprura depromtus. Tübingen 1592, Frankfurt 1612

literature

• Karl Jordan Glatz: History of the Alpirsbach Monastery on the Black Forest. Verlag Karl J. Trübner, Strasbourg, 1877, p. 164
• Jakob Christoph Beck , August Johann Buxtorf: Supplement to the Basel general historical lexicon. Verlag Johann Christ, Basel, 1744, vol. 2, p. 1099 ( online )
• Vogel, called Mattheus, Orneus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 50, Leipzig 1746, column 186-190.
• Jöcher : lexicon of scholars. Vol. 4, Col. 1692
• Georg Andreas Will : Nuremberg scholarly lexicon; or, description of all Nuremberg beyderley ancestry after your life, merits and writings. Lorenz Schüpfel, Nuremberg and Altdorf, 1758, p. 110, ( online )
• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, p. 175