Philipp Gessert

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Philipp Gessert († in the 17th century) came from the Electoral Palatinate and was an Evangelical Reformed preacher in the collegiate monastery Grönenbach .

Life

Phillip Gessert (also Philippus Gessertus ) was a Calvinist preacher in Grönenbach. In 1621 he was expelled from Grönenbach by decree of September 2, 1621 by the Prince Abbot of Kempten Johann Eucharius von Wolffurt and with the aid of Count Otto Heinrich Fugger . With his expulsion, the simultaneous use and exercise of the Calvinist retreat in the Catholic collegiate church of St. Philip and Jacob in Bad Grönenbach ended.

Fonts

Funeral sermon for Philipp von Pappenheim, 1619

Writings published by Philipp Gessert:

  • A Christian sermon / responsibility and apology of the dead and the living , Amberg, 1619, 30 pages - on the occasion of the funeral sermon for Philipp von Pappenheim on November 29, 1619
  • Apologia and coerced responsibility for the supposed rebuttal M. Petri Funckii, predigers zu OberErckheim , 1621, 106 pages

Web links

Wikisource: History of the market town of Grönenbach  - sources and full texts
Commons : funeral sermon from 1619 for Philipp von Pappenheim  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Sedelmayer: History of the market town Grönenbach , 1910, page 219
  2. ↑ Joseph Sedelmayer: History of the market town Grönenbach , 1910, page 38, 114
  3. ↑ Joseph Sedelmayer: Geschichte des Marktfleckens Grönenbach , 1910, p. 114.
personal data
SURNAME Gessert, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philip Gessertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Evangelical Reformed preacher in the collegiate monastery in Bad Grönenbach
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century