Urbanus Rhegius

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Urbanus Rhegius (* May 1489 in Langenargen ; † May 23, 1541 in Celle ; actually Urban Rieger ) was a reformer who was unusually active in both southern and northern Germany. Although he always worked for an "evangelical unity" and a religious balance in the Holy Roman Empire in exchange with other reformers , his hopes for such an unification were low. He himself increasingly saw the Lutheran interpretation of the gospel as a sign of the “true” church .

Urbanus Rhegius

Life

The son of the priest Konrad Rieger first attended the Latin school in Lindau and later studied in Freiburg im Breisgau , Ingolstadt , Tübingen and Basel , among others with Johannes Eck . In 1519 he was ordained a priest in Constance and in 1520 received a position as cathedral preacher in Augsburg .

After taking office, he dutifully proclaimed the papal bull Exsurge Domine against Martin Luther , but soon got himself into conflict with the church authorities due to his critical stance against the indulgence trade . He was dismissed in 1521 after having written a defense for Luther in which he clearly represented anti-Roman positions. He worked for some time as a chaplain in Hall in Tirol and returned to Augsburg as a Protestant pastor in 1524 .

Work in Augsburg

In the following years Rhegius wrote, among other things, a pamphlet against Andreas Karlstadt and a work against serfdom , which Luther pointed out as exemplary in the Peasants' War . In the Last Supper dispute between Luther and Zwingli , he tried to mediate and participated in the formulation of the Confessio Augustana at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530 .

Lüneburg time

In 1530 Rhegius accepted an invitation from Duke Ernst I of Lüneburg to Celle , where, as superintendent , he devoted himself to the training of pastors and, in particular, to the writing of textbooks as well as examination and church regulations . In addition to Lüneburg, he also made a significant contribution to the breakthrough of the Reformation in Hanover .

Through correspondence, expert reports, but also personal meetings with other reformers, for example at the religious talk in Hagenau , Rhegius was influential far beyond his place of work. Among other things, he took a position against the Anabaptists in Münster and in 1540 stood up for the Jews in Braunschweig .

Rhegius was in direct contact with the first mayor after the Reformation in Hanover Anton von Berckhusen and at the same time a deacon at the market church there ; In 1536 the superintendent in Celle had drawn up a reformatory church order for Hanover.

family

Urbanus Rhegius had been married to Anna Weissbrugger from Augsburg since 1525 and had four sons and eight daughters. A thirteenth child, whose sex is unknown, was born after his death and soon passed away.

Works (selection)

  • Nova doctrina , 1526
  • The new empty sambt jrer laying , 1527
  • Seelenarznei , 1529 (consolation, was later published in ten languages ​​and had 90 editions)
  • Formulae quadam , 1535
  • Dialogue of the Beautiful Sermon , 1536

literature

bibliography

  • Anton G. Schlichthaber: Mindische Kirchengeschichte , Minden 1749–1755, here in one of the 5 volumes: "Vita Urbani Rhegi"
  • Sebastian Ruf: Doctor Jacob Strauss and Doctor Urban Regius . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Tyrol 2 (1865), pp. 67–81
  • David Schönherr: Franz Schweyger's Chronicle of the City of Hall 1303–1572 (= Tyrolean historical sources 1), Innsbruck 1867, pp. 21 and 80–82
  • Maximilian Liebmann : Urbanus Rhegius and the beginnings of the Reformation. Contributions to his life, his teaching and his work up to the Augsburg Diet of 1530; with a bibliography of his writings. Aschendorff, Münster 1980
  • Hellmut Zschoch : Reformatory existence and denominational identity. Urbanus Rhegius as a Protestant theologian from 1520 to 1530 (= contributions to historical theology 88), Tübingen 1995
  • Heinz Moser: Forest Foundation Hall in Tirol. Documents from the years 1490–1856 (= Tiroler Geschistorquellen 44), Innsbruck 2000, pp. 42–46
  • Romedio Schmitz-Esser: About runaway nuns and charismatic preachers. The teachings of Luther and their expression in Hall in Tirol. In: Tiroler Heimatblätter 82/1 (2007), pp. 12-18
  • Hellmut Zschoch:  Rhegius, Urbanus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 122-134.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Julius August Wagenmann :  Rhegius, Urbanus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 374-378.

Life

Web links

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Biographical articles

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the translation of the inscription of a lost epitaph in: Sabine Wehking : Holdings: DI 36 (Hannover) / No. 190 † Marktkirche 1597, 1598, 1607 , in: Inscription catalog: City of Hannover on German inscriptions online .
  2. ^ Jens Schmidt-Clausen: Rhegius (see literature).
personal data
SURNAME Rhegius, Urbanus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rieger, Urban
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1489
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenargen
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1541
Place of death Celle