Sebastian Meyer

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Sebastian Meyer (* around 1465 in Neuchâtel am Rhein , † around 1545 in Strasbourg ) was a Reformed theologian and reformer.

Life

Nothing is known about his youth and schooling. He attended the first schools in his hometown and possibly others in Schlettstadt . He completed his studies at the University of Basel with a doctorate in theology . He entered the Order of the Minorites and held the post of reading master first in the monastery of Strasbourg and then in Bern .

Meyer was one of the first in Bern to publicly support the Reformation . In the Cistercian monastery of Fraubrunnen, he confessed himself to be a follower of Martin Luther as early as 1522 . Despite attacks from the church authorities, the Bern Council stood behind Meyer. In January 1523 Meyer was one of the few foreigners to take part in the First Zurich Disputation. In May 1523 he wrote to Vadian that the majority of the Berns were already evangelical. In the Dominican preacher Hans Heim, however, a strong opponent arose for him. The council put an end to the dispute by expelling both of them from the city in October 1524.

In 1524 he is said to have left the order and married. After being expelled from Bern, Meyer moved to Schaffhausen, but was also expelled there because he was accused of participating in the rebel revolt of 1525 together with his official brother Sebastian Hofmeister . He later stayed in Basel and then settled in Strasbourg, where he was preacher at the Church of St. Thomas from 1526 to 1531. After that he worked for a certain time as a preacher in Augsburg before he returned to Strasbourg.

After the deaths of the Bern reformers Franz Kolb and Berchtold Haller , he accepted another appointment to Bern in 1536. He should campaign for the Wittenberg Agreement in the spirit of Martin Bucer . Together with Peter Kunz from the Bern Minster and Simon Sulzer , he advocated reconciliation in the Last Supper dispute . At the Synods in Bern in 1536 and 1537 he vehemently advocated an agreement and thus got into a dispute with the Zwinglian -oriented Erasmus Ritter and Kaspar Megander . Megander, who asked the council to dismiss Meyer, did not get through and had to leave the city himself in 1537. To Meyer's disappointment, however, the Wittenberg Agreement was not accepted. In the Anabaptist disputaion of March 1538 in Bern, Meyer spoke out against the Anabaptists with sharp words and accused them of building a synagogue of Satan. In 1541, at an advanced age, Meyer himself asked to be dismissed from his office. He returned to Strasbourg to end his active and restless life.

Works

  • From the benefactor of the curtisans and temple servants , Basel 1521
  • D. Sebastian Meyers about predicant to barefoot to Strasbourg revocation to eyn laudlich Freystat Strasbourg , Nuremberg 1524
  • In Apocalypsin Joannis Apostoli Commentarius , Zurich 1530
  • Pope and his clergy Jarmarckt , Augsburg 1535
  • In utramque D. Pauli epistolam ad Corinthios commentarii , Frankfurt 1546
  • Annotationes breves [...] in epistolam D. Pauli ad Galatas , Bern 1546

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SURNAME Meyer, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reformed theologian and reformer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1465
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuchâtel on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH around 1545
Place of death Strasbourg