Matthias Vehe-Glirius

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Matthias Vehe-Glirius , also Matthias Vehe and Matthias Glirius (* 1545 in Ballenberg ; † 1590 ;) was a Reformation and anti-Trinitarian theologian in the 16th century.

life and work

Vehe-Glirius was born in Ballenberg around 1545 and later grew up in Königshofen . Vehe later studied theology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Rostock . In Rostock he studied with David Chyträus, among others . After completing his studies, Vehe worked as a deacon in Kaiserslautern , where he was arrested by the Palatinate authorities in 1570 for his anti-Trinitarian positions as a heretic . After attempting to escape, he and Jacob Suter were detained at the Dilsberg mountain fortress .

After his release in August 1572, Vehe-Glirius emigrated to Transylvania via Poland . In 1574, he succeeded Johanes Sommer, who died of the plague, as head of the Unitarian College in Cluj . However, he only called himself Glirius here, presumably to disguise himself from investigations made by the Electorate of the Palatinate. In Cluj-Napoca he met leading Unitarians such as Franz David , Jacob Palaeologus and Christian Francken . After the death of Franz David, Vehe-Glirius probably wrote Defensio Francisci Davidis , which appeared in Krakow in 1581 , in which he made Fausto Sozzini jointly responsible for David's death. After David's death, Vehe-Glirius returned to Poland, where he lived for several years under a pseudonym. In 1589 he returned to Germany, where he was soon arrested again and finally died in December 1590.

In his writings Vehe-Glirius strove for a union of Jewish and Christian conceptions on the basis of the rabbinic religious philosophy and a humanistic-Reformation biblical criticism. Theologically, Vehe-Glirius stood for the nonadorantist unitarianism founded by Franz David , which was to become the basis for the later development of the Jewish Christian group of the Sabbatars . As the founder of the Unitarian Sabbatism , Andreas Eössi was strongly influenced by Vehe-Glirius and in particular by his main work, Mattanjah. Together with Adam Neuser , Johannes Sylvanus and Adam Pastor , Vehe-Glirius stands for the few Reformation German anti-Trinitarians .

literature

  • Christopher J. Burchill: The Heidelberg Antitrinitarians. Johann Sylvan, Adam Neuser, Matthias Vehe, Jacob Suter, Johann Halser. Koerner, Baden-Baden 1989, ISBN 3-87320-120-8 . Pp. 125-169 ( PDF file ).
  • Robert Dàn: Matthias Vehe-Glirius. Life and work of a radical antitrinitarian with his collected writings. Collected writings. Akad. Kiadó, Budapest 1982, ISBN 963-05-2510-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christopher J. Burchill: The Heidelberg Antitrinitarians . In: Bibliotheca Dissidentium . Baden-Baden & Bouxwiller 1989, p. 173 .
  2. ^ Journal of Church History . tape 96-97 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1985, p. 275 .
personal data
SURNAME Vehe-Glirius, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthias Vehe; Matthias Glirius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION anti-Trinitarian theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1545
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballenberg
DATE OF DEATH 1590