Peter Michael Brillmacher

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Peter Michael Brillmacher (* 1542 in Cologne ; † August 25, 1595 in Mainz ; actually Peter Michael , as the author Petrus Michaelis ) was a German Jesuit .

Life

Peter Michael Brillmacher was born in Cologne in 1542 as the son of Marcus Michaels, called Brillmacher. Peter Brillmacher entered the Jesuit order in 1558, the following year the University of Cologne awarded him a baccalaureate and a year later he was awarded a master's degree . In 1561 he joined the college in Trier . He was ordained a priest in 1566 or 1567 ; in 1567 he held his primary school in Mainz . At the university there he learned the Greek and Hebrew languages . Then he worked as a preacher . The oriental languages he studied at the since May 1567 University of Paris , returned in 1568 as preacher to Mainz, where he taught from then Hebrew. From autumn 1569 he preached in Speyer Cathedral . After he had become vice rector at the Jesuit college in Speyer in 1570 , he was promoted to rector in 1571 as the successor to Hermes Halpaur and left the college in 1579. He then preached in Cologne and became a preacher and advisor to the Duke of Jülich-Kleve-Berg in 1585 Kleve and Düsseldorf and had to give up the position two years later due to an intrigue . Afterwards he can be proven again as a preacher in Cologne. There there was a dispute with Stephan Isaac, who had converted from Judaism to Calvinism . In 1588 he came to the Jesuit College in Münster as rector . At the same time he was the headmaster at the Paulinum grammar school . He held both positions in Mainz until his death on August 25, 1595.

Works

  • Controversiarum de Eucharistiae augustissimo Sacramento Dialogi quinque (three volumes; Cologne 1584)
  • Catechism (Cologne 1586)
  • Catechism, This is a Christian account of true religion and worship / Sampt an authentic bed book . Cologne 1587 ( digitized version )
  • Evidiotheca, glasses box (1593)

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personal data
SURNAME Brillmacher, Peter Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peter Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH 1542
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1595
Place of death Mainz