Peter Lo

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Peter Lo , also Petrus Loh, Peter Loh and Peter vom Lohe (* 1530 in Elberfeld ; † September 13, 1581 ) was a German reformist preacher . Since, after a short time as a chaplain, he only had income from his work as a preacher again in the last years of his life, he ran a yarn bleaching business with his wife . He was the father of two daughters.

Life

Peter Lo was the son of the schoolmaster and counselor Johann Lo. After attending the Archigymnasium in Dortmund , from which theologians were dismissed at the time, he worked as a chaplain in Elberfeld from 1552. He preached in the spirit of the Reformation, which Luther only publicly represented from 1522 , where he also held house services and offered the Lord's Supper in both forms. Thereupon he was reported as a heretic in Düsseldorf . He fled to Franz II von Waldeck , pawnbroker in the nearby Beyenburg office . His mother, Anna von Kleve, was Philipp von Waldeck's second wife and a supporter of the Reformation. Around 1554 the family found him a job as a chaplain in Mengeringhausen in the county of Waldeck .

His writing, written in Mengeringhausen, "Eynfeltige bekantniss vnuerfelschter Euangelischer Report of the Christian, Apostolic and Old Catholic Mother Churches, which should be made out of the holy night painting of our Lord Jesus Christ and should be removed", which was printed in Marburg in 1556, he dedicated to his protectors of the von Waldeck family. In it he defends Luther's interpretation of the Lord's Supper .

The councilors in Mengeringhausen complained during their rule that Lo was often not to be found in his parish. He probably stayed with his protectors at Beyenburg Castle . In 1558 he was appointed there. With that he was again close to his supporters in Elberfeld. In Elberfeld, with the pawnman Johann Kettler, brother of Gotthard Kettler and resigned Bishop Wilhelm Kettler, the rulers' opinion had changed in favor of the Reformation movement. In 1560 a new pastor was appointed who was of a conciliatory opinion towards Lutheran teaching. Thereupon Lo dared to preach again in 1561. He was charged again and the Duke of Jülich-Kleve-Berg had him imprisoned in Solingen on October 19, 1561 . At the intercession of the local marshal and Anna von Kleve, he was released from prison on November 10, on condition that he would no longer perform in Elberfeld.

In 1565 he was commissioned by the sovereign to dissuade the imprisoned Anabaptists in the Blankenberg and Bensberg offices from their belief. This happened in talks in June / July of that year, partly in the presence of the Duke. Lo did not take up the offer to work as a proper pastor again. In October 1561, however, he received permission to preach in Elberfeld again. The pastor there had meanwhile switched to the Reformed Church and Lo preached with him in accordance with the Heidelberg Catechism .

Duke Wilhelm von Jülich-Kleve-Berg commissioned Lo and two other theologians to examine a Reformation order written by Georg Cassander , which was intended to preserve the unity of the church in the duchy. Some of the changes he proposed have been incorporated into the concept. Under the influence of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo , the text was never published , also because the Duke, who was in poor health, was inclined towards the Counter Reformation at the time .

Lo continued to work as a freelance preacher in Elberfeld. In 1574, after the retirement priest's death, he received his income from the vicariate . Since he had his own house in which he continued to live, he left the vicarie house to the Elberfeld school. Peter Lo died on September 15, 1581.

Peter Lo had given essential impulses for the Reformation in the Bergisches Land through his writing and his sermons.

Works

  • Eynfeltige known and unspoken Euangelical report of the Christian, Apostolic and old Catholic mother churches, which one should design the holy night painting of our Lord Jesus Christ and discover it , Marburg, Andreas Colbe, 1556
  • Simple confession: Act of the Last Supper to the Christians in Elberfeld from 1556 , facsimile of the above work, ed. by Hermann-Peter Eberlein , Waltrop, 2002, ISBN 3-933688-80-9 .
  • Letters from Peter Lo. A new contribution to the history of the Elberfeld preacher, ed. by Hermann Klugkist Hesse. In: ZBGV 70 (1949), pp. 5-115.

literature

  • Karl Wilhelm Bouterwek: The Reformation in Wupperthal and Peter Lo's share in the same. In: ZBGV 4 (1867), pp. 273–336 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Wilhelm Crecelius:  Lo, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 23 f.
  • Wilhelm Crecelius: To Elberfeld Church History. Contributions to the history of the Bergisch-Niederrhein region, Elberfeld 1891.
  • Hermann-Peter Eberlein: Peter Lo, the reformer of Elberfeld. In: MEKGR 52 (2003), pp. 271-295.
  • Hermann-Peter Eberlein (Ed.): Album ministrorum of the Reformed Community of Elberfeld. Preachers and pastors since 1552 (SVRKG 163), Bonn 2003.
  • Carl Krafft: Peter Lo's, the reformer of Elberfeld, writing to the Christians in Elberfeld. In: Reformed Wochenblatt 14 (1869), pp. 25-29.
  • August Nebe: Three letters about Peter Lo's negotiations with the Anabaptists in Blankenberg. In: ZBGV 34 (1898/99), pp. 1–15.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Wilhelm Crecelius:  Lo, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 23 f.
  2. ^ Rudolf Mohr: "Lo, Peter" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 14 (1985), p. 725 f. ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Lo, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loh, Peter; Lohe, Peter vom; Loh, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformist preacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1581