Peter Wertheim

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Peter Wertheim (also Peter Wirtheim and Peter Noyen , * around 1505 in Weert , Netherlands; † after 1547) was a theologian and pastor during the Reformation.

Life

Wertheim first studied in Leuven and then moved to the newly founded university in Marburg . At the request of the preacher Bernd Rothmann , he was sent from there by the Hessian Landgrave Phillip together with Gottfried Stralen (also from Strahl) to Münster . There all churches with the exception of the cathedral and the monasteries and monasteries were to be given to evangelical preachers. But there was a lack of such. Wertheim took over St. Ludgeri in 1532 . On August 16, 1532 he was one of the signatories of a draft reform of the Lord's Supper. On the question of adult baptism, however, he fell out with Rothmann and the Munster Anabaptists. When it was decided in 1534 that all opponents of the Anabaptists had to leave Münster, Wertheim left the city, went back to Hesse and then became field preacher of the Landgrave in Württemberg and Münster. Between 1536 and 1540 he was pastor in Eddigehausen near Göttingen and then until around 1548 in Wolfhagen . In 1545 his Calvin catechism, the use of which was later banned, was published by Kolbe in Marburg. Then his tracks are lost. Wertheim's daughter married his successor in the parish office in Wolfhagen.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Görlich: Wolfhagen history of a north Hessian city. Kassel 1980. p. 322.
  2. ↑ J. Engelhardt: Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte Volume 4. Erlangen 1834. S. 224.
  3. ↑ JM Reu: Sources for the history of church teaching I / 3,1b. Gütersloh 1935. p. 1120.
  4. ↑ Hermann von Kerssenbroick: History of the Anabaptists in Münster in Westphalen. cit. 1771. p. 234.
  5. ^ Heinrich-August Erhard: History of Munster. Münster 1837. p. 336.
  6. ↑ Görlich. P. 322.
  7. ↑ Görlich. P. 322.
  8. ↑ Heinrich Heppe: Memorandum on the Confessional Turmoil in the Evangelical Church ...
  9. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Wertheim, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wirtheim, Peter; Noyen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reformation theologian and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1505
PLACE OF BIRTH Weert , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH after 1547