Simon Musaeus

Simon Musaeus

Simon Musaeus, also Musäus, Meusel, Muslik (born March 25, 1521 in Vetschau / Spreewald , † July 11, 1576 in Mansfeld ) was a Protestant theologian and reformer.

Life

Simon Meusel came from a rural Sorbian family. He went to the Latin school in Cottbus , in 1543 to the University of Frankfurt / Oder and in 1545/47 to Wittenberg . From 1547 to 1549 he worked as a teacher in Nuremberg . Ordained in Berlin , he first took over a pastor's office in his closer home in Fürstenwalde / Spree in 1549 and then in Grossen, but was expelled by the Bishop of Lebus .

After the death of Ambrosius Moibanus, he took over the pastoral position at St. Elisabeth in Breslau , but with his harsh demeanor could not maintain there. From here he went to Thuringia and was superintendent in Gotha and Eisfeld (1557/58). He was also a pastor in the Bohemian town of Psibor . From 1558 a professorship followed in Jena until 1561. In 1561 the Gnesiolutheraner saw a task for himself in Bremen , where Albert Hardenberg had been before him . In 1562 he went to Schwerin as court preacher , where he stayed for only three years. On July 12, 1563 he was enrolled in the register of the University of Rostock and on the same day in the theological faculty.

He was superintendent in Gera for two years and in Thorn for the same length . In 1570 he was appointed general superintendent in Coburg , worked for a time in Braunschweig and Soest , and most recently as general superintendent in Mansfeld, where he died.

The versatile and talented man has written a lot. He is co-author of the Weimar Konfutationsbuch from 1559, published the files of the disputation between Matthias Flacius and Victorin Strigel . He turned against Flacius in his "Sententia de peccato, quod non sit substantia" of 1572, edited the church regulations Gerd Omeken in Soest. It is noteworthy that he also wrote books of edification, which were widely used, a postil, and exegetical and catechetical writings.

Works (selection)

• A good history of the uprising and lermen, for example in the city of Bremen, of a number of Sacraments has been excited . 1562 ( online )
• with Georg Autumnus: Confession script: Etlicher Predicanten in d. Lords Graitz, Geraw, Schonburg u. a. afterwards signed; Provided for the necessary diversion of many calumnias and Lesterungen . Andreas Petri, Eisleben 1567
• Correct and pure interpretation of the First Book of Mosy: of the three powerful kingdoms, namely, nature through the creation of Teuffels, through Adam's fall, and Christ through the revelation of the Gospel . Kirchner [u. a.], Magdeburg 1615
• The Lord's Prayer / interpreted by Simon Musäus. To the new ed. by Hermann Beck, Dean. Akad. Buchh, Leipzig 1893

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the entry of Simon Musaeus' matriculation and the reception of Simon Musaeus in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

• Adolf Schimmelpfennig :  Musäus, Simon . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 91 f.
• Ingeborg Dorchenas:  MUSÄUS, Simon (Meusel). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 376-380.
• Wolf: Source studies of the German Reformation history . Volume 1, Gotha 1915, page 2
• A. Burgdorf: Märkische church history . Fürstenwalde 1907, pages 55–89
• Th. War: The honored and learned Coburg . Volume 1, Coburg 1927
• Hubertus Schwartz : History of the Reformation in Soest . Soest 1932
• R. Herrmann: Thuringian Church History . Volume II. Weimar 1947
• K. Heussi: History of the theological faculty in Jena . Leipzig 1954
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Vol. 2, p. 382, ​​R 1810
• Robert Kolb : The “Three Kingdoms” of Simon Musaeus: A Wittenberg Student Processes Luther's Thought . In: Konrad Eisenbichler (Ed.): Collaboration, Conflict, and Continuity in the Reformation. Essays in Honor of James M. Estes on His Eightieth Birthday . Brill, Leiden 2014, pp. 297-321.