Pantaleon Blasius

Pantaleon Blasius or Blaesi (* around 1520 in Bautzen , † after 1560) was a German Protestant clergyman and reformer in the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg .

Life

Blasius came from Silesia and studied theology at the University of Leuven , where he matriculated on July 12, 1536. In 1543 he became a preacher of the German community in Mömpelgard , but in 1545 at the request of Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg he was sent by the Strasbourg City Council as pastor and superintendent to Pfaffenhofen . He was entrusted with the implementation of the Reformation in the county and in 1545 led the Reformation Synod in Buchsweiler . In 1549 he became pastor in Dörlisheim , in 1554 in Kaiserslautern . In 1556 he was pastor at the Barfüßer monastery church in Heidelberg . After the change of denomination in the Electoral Palatinate, he was dismissed as a Lutheran in 1559.

swell

• Erasmus von Minckwitz : Report from the Confession M. Pantaleonis Blasii, Predigern zu Heydelberg , May 27 and July 2, 1560; Pantaleon Blasius: Minutes of the public reading of the Palatinate church order (Holy Communion texts) , September 8, 1560; Correspondence between the Saxon Chancellor Erasmus von Minckwitz (around 1512; † 1562/64) and Panthaleon Blasius, 1560. In: anthology by the Frankfurt pastor Hartmann Beyer ; City and University Library Frankfurt am Main (Ms. lat. Oct. 132)

literature

• Heinrich Neu: Pastors' book of the Protestant Church in Baden from the Reformation to the present . Part II: The alphabetical directory of the clergy with biographical information . Lahr (Black Forest) 1939, p. 63.
• Jean Rott: BLASIUS (Blaesi) Pantaleon In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne , Vol. IV. Strasbourg 1984 ( digitized version of the Fédération des sociétés d'histoire et d'archéologie d'Alsace)