Paul Speratus
Paul Speratus (born December 13, 1484 in Rötlen near Ellwangen (Jagst) ; † August 12, 1551 in Marienwerder , today Kwidzyn) was a Catholic priest, then a Protestant preacher, reformer and song writer.
Life
His actual name was either Spret or Hoffer, the Latinized form of the name would translate as the one hoped for or bridegroom . Speratus completed his studies in Freiburg im Breisgau , Paris and Vienna and was a doctor in both theology and law and philosophy . He was also awarded the title of papal and imperial court palatinate. Before turning to the Reformation , he was a priest in Salzburg from 1514 to 1520 , then in Dinkelsbühl for a few months .
In 1520 he became cathedral preacher in Würzburg . Even here he represented the teaching of Martin Luther and had to flee after he had decided to give up celibacy . This fate then happened to him in Salzburg. In Vienna, after a sermon in St. Stephen's Cathedral on January 12, 1522 , in which he attacked the vow of celibacy, he was excommunicated as a heretic . In Moravian Jihlava his reformist preaching fell on fertile ground, the city council gave him a pastorate. But soon he was arrested at the instigation of the bishop of Olomouc and sentenced to death by fire , but pardoned on condition that he leave the country.
Via Wittenberg he came to Königsberg in 1524 as court preacher Albrecht I of Brandenburg-Ansbach . From 1530 until his death he was one of the first Lutheran bishops of Pomesanien in Marienwerder in Prussia.
Paul Speratus is the poet of the hymn It is salvation and we come here ( EG 342), which is already contained in Luther's book of eight songs from 1523.
Remembrance day
August 12th in the Evangelical Name Calendar .
See also
literature
- Carl Johann Cosack : Paulus Speratus life and songs: a contribution to the history of the Reformation, especially to the Prussian, as well as to the hymnology. Schwetschke, Braunschweig 1861 ( digitized version ).
- Martin Graf: Paul Speratus, the reformer of Old Prussia, the Protestant bishop of Pomesania. Ev. Bookstore, Königsberg 1917.
- Bernhard Rogge: Paul Speratus, a herald of the Gospel in Moravia and reformer of the Duchy of Prussia (= for the parties and friends of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein. No. 9). Klein, Barmen 1885, 2nd edition 1888.
- Paul Tschackert: Paul Speratus von Rötlen, Protestant pastor of Pomesanien in Marienwerder (= writings of the Association for Reformation History. No. 33). Association for the History of the Reformation, Halle; Niemeyer, Halle 1891.
- Heinz Vonhoff : It is salvation and we come here. In the footsteps of Paul Speratus (= Steinkopf-Bücherei. Vol. 20). Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7984-0460-7 .
- Wilhelm Wittgen: It is salvation and we come here. Paul Speratus (= How our hymn book was created. Book 4). Der Rufer, Gütersloh 1946, new edition 1948.
- Paul Tschackert : Speratus, Paul . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 123-135.
- Sigrid Fillies-Reuter: Speratus, Paul. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 973-975.
Web links
- Works by and about Paul Speratus in the German Digital Library
- Facsimile of the song "It is salvation and we come here" in the eight-song book (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Prussischer Kulturbesitz) [1]
Individual evidence
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Erhard von Queis |
Bishop of Pomesania 1530–1551 |
George of Venediger |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Speratus, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian, reformer and song poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1484 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rötlen near Ellwangen (Jagst) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1551 |
| Place of death | Marienwerder |