Petrus Sylvius

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Petrus Sylvius , actually Peter Penick (* 1470 in Forst / Niederlausitz , † 1547), was a Catholic writer and controversial theologian of the Reformation . He was a sharp opponent of Martin Luther . Name variants are Petrus Penick , Petrus Pienitius , Petrus de Forst , Peter Silvius and Petrus Forst .

Live and act

Sylvius studied in Leipzig from 1491 (matriculated as Petrus Penick de Forst), became a baccalaureus in 1501 , master's degree in 1508 and entered the Dominican order in the same year . In 1509 he was ordained a priest. In 1514 he traveled to Loretto and Rome , where he was exempted from the order by Pope Leo X for being ill.

Even before the Leipzig disputation in 1519, he wrote anti-Lutheran writings. From 1524 preacher in Cronschwitz near Weida and pastor in Weida and Lohma near Schmölln, he was expelled from both places by the Lutherans.

In 1527 he published the polemic by Johannes Cochläus "Against the reubian and murderous ranks of the Bawern" (1525). He lived for a few years without a job in Leipzig and Dresden and was next to Johannes Cochläus theological advisor to Duke George the Bearded . Through the intercession of the duke, he was chaplain in Rochlitz from 1528 to 1537 .

By 1534 he had about 30 books printed, mostly at his own expense, but also with the support of the Duke and the Leipzig magistrate. Almost all of them are directed against Luther and the Reformation in prose or in verse.

From 1530 to 1533 he published some sermons by Andreas Proles (e.g. Proles, Andreas: Sermones Dominkales Des gracious preacher Andree Prolis Etwan Vicarij Augustiner, 1530). His texts are characterized by an extremely sharp polemic in which Luther is referred to as the “most non-Christian”, devilishly possessed person, as the “trumpet of evil spirits” and “forerunner of the pure antichrist”.

Works

  • Sylvius, Petrus: Eyn very useful treatise from the eynigen true: common apostolic holy Christian church and from yhrer (1525)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: Eyne Verklerunge des eynigen were apostolic Christian gloubens and lere to recognize and avoid all dreamy (1525)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: Summa and protection of the goods evangelical lere and the whole divine writings (1529)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: Eyn Missiue ader Sendbriff to the Christian Gathering and especially to the highness of the Deutzian Nation to remedy the event (1525)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: Eyn vorkleru [n] g der Euangelischen kyrchen, to recognize the ground of all Christian truth, Dorynne host vorstoret der evil (1525)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: Eyn more frightening and yet short-lived singing of the Lutziferischen and Lutheran churches (1526)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: Protection of the holy gospel and the eternal word of God ... called Mart. Lutheri ecclesia (1526)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: From the unity of the Luttrian and Lutziferian churches and, from yhrer gleychformiger arth vnd eyge creates them everywhere (1526)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: Eyn kurtze ... information, whether the iunckfraw Maria can or should be called a mother of God ... / Item What, and how credible. (1527)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: Eyn clear evidence of how Luther would be eyn cause of constant eynz (1527)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: Of the four Gospels, that is: of the erroneous articles of the Pickards, Musciwites, Wigleffs ... except which Luther should be. (1528)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: Of the last five books MP Sylvii, so after the first tzwantzig (1528)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: Two newly printed ... little books from the common Christian churches. (1533)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: The last two ... Büchleyn ... so the Lutheran Thun ... act. (1534)
  • Sylvius, Petrus: The one born to receive the sacrament of the Last Supper, eyn grunt (1535)
  • Penick, Peter: Eyn Missiue ader Sendbriff to the Christian gathering and especially to the uppermost ... (1525)
  • Penick, Peter: Eyn kurtze vnnd yet adequate provisions Whether the iunckfraw Mary the mother of Christ ... (1527)
  • Penick, Peter: The other eight hindering books MPSiluij follow the first three from ... (1528)
  • Penick, Peter: The first four books. M. Petri Syluij. From which that first is of the primacy and common ... (1528)
  • Penick, Peter: Declaration of the twelve articles of the single were Christian glawbens and all holy ones ... (1528)
  • Penick, Peter: Eyn especially useful vnnd krfftigs nawes buechleyn MPSyluij Dorynn. To the first host ... (1531)
  • Penick, Peter: The last two painstaking and most vigorous büchleyn M.Petri Syluij so that ... (1534)
  • Penick, Peter: Luther's and Lutzber's unified unification in xxij eygenschafften are gleych-shaped everywhere (1535)
  • Penick, Peter: Eyn clear reference how Luther through his vnchristliche writes wrong doctrine and ... (1536)

literature

  • Johann Karl Seidemann : M. Petrus Sylvius, a Dominican of the Reformation period , in: Archive for the history of literature , 4th volume (1875), pp. 117–153.
  • Johann Karl Seidemann: The writings of Petrus Sylvius, listed and discussed , ibid. 5th vol. (1876), pp. 6–32, 287–310.
  • N. Paulus: Petrus Sylvius, im Katholik 1873, I, 49–67.
  • Franz Heinrich Reusch :  Sylvius, Petrus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 286 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ from lat. Silva - "forest"
  2. ↑ cf. Luther's scripture of the same name
  3. ^ Franz Heinrich Reusch:  Sylvius, Petrus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 286 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Sylvius, Petrus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Penick, Peter; Penick, Petrus; Pienitius, Petrus; Silvius, Peter; Forst, Petrus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic writer of the Reformation period
DATE OF BIRTH 1470
PLACE OF BIRTH Forst (Lausitz)
DATE OF DEATH 1547