Johannes Pollius

Johannes Pollius , also Polhen, Polhenne, Pollanus, Polle, Pollen (* around 1490 in Bielefeld , † 1562 in Osnabrück ) was a Protestant theologian and reformer .

Life

From his youth we only know that he attended the cathedral school in Münster and was under the humanistic influence of Johannes Murmellius . This influence must have been very strong, as is clear from his epigrams published in Zurich in 1534 . He studied in Cologne and then went to Minden as Vice-Rector to Bartholomaeus Coloniensis , after whose death in 1516 he was also Rector for a few years.

The reasons for his move to Osnabrück in 1521 are not known. When his inclination to the new teaching was noticed, he had to leave Osnabrück. In 1527 he accepted the office of castle preacher in Rheda with Count Konrad von Tecklenburg. When Soest asked him in February 1532 to carry out the Reformation and to support superintendent Jan de Brune , the count put him on leave for two years.

Then he returned to Rheda. With his mediating humanistic view, Pollius was apparently too mild for Soest. When Hermann Bonnus carried out the Reformation in Osnabrück in 1543, Pollius was superintendent at St. Katharinen . Tradition does not reveal what their relationship was like. When Osnabrück accepted the Augsburg Interim in 1548, he had to vacate his place for two years. But then he returned and worked in the same place until his death.

literature

• Franz Jostes :  Pollius, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 395 f.
• Hamelmann's historical Works 1.3 Münster 1908, 266; 2 (1913), 293, 382.
• B. Spiegel: Memory of someone missing . In: Journal for Scientific Theology 1864, p. 337 and 1886, p. 316.
• K. Krafft: Johannes Pollius . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein 9, 1873, p. 162.
• Franz Jostes: Daniel von Soest . Paderborn 1888.
• Walter Schäfer: Effigies pastorum. The pastors to St. Katharinen. 400 years of Osnabrück church history in pictures and documents . Osnabrück 1966, p. 17.