Utz Eckstein

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Utz Eckstein , with the Latinized humanist name Acrogoniaeus (* around 1490 in Esslingen am Neckar ; † October 7, 1558 in Zurich ), was a Reformed clergyman and pamphleteer during the Reformation .

Life

Title page of the Concilium pamphlet , 1525.

Utz Eckstein was born in Esslingen around 1490. Nothing is known about his youth and education. He came to what is now Switzerland as a hiking predicant. His name appears for the first time in Weesen , where he worked as an early knife from 1522 to 1523 . During this time he will have got to know the Reformation movement around Ulrich Zwingli . Between 1525 and 1527 he published sharp pamphlets for the dissemination of the Zwinglische doctrine in a short period of time. At the beginning he argued from a radical Reformation and peasant-friendly position, but later switched to arguing close to the authorities when it came to the peasant question ( Rychßtag 1526). In his work Concilium he polemicized against the traditional theologians Eck , Fabri and Murner , whom he also denigrated personally after the Baden disputation ( Eyn hüpsch lied doctor Johansen Ecken and Fabers badenfart concerning 1526). Thomas Murner, who suspected a pseudonym of Ulrich Zwingli behind the name Eckstein , became his main literary opponent. Eckstein wrote a polemical work against him ( Uff Doctor Thoma Murners calender ein schön lied 1527), which, however, probably got stuck in the censorship. No publications are known after 1527. He subsequently worked in various parishes in north-eastern Switzerland ; so in Thalwil (1527–28), in Rorschach (1528–31), later in Zollikon and Niederweningen . From 1535 until his death in 1558 he was pastor in Uster .

His writings were widespread in the time of the early Reformation and some had several editions. However, like the author, they were soon forgotten.

plant

  • Dialogue. A nice disputation that Christ has with Adam thon, in which a person can learn what kind of work God asks. Zurich 1525 ( digitized version ).
  • Lament of the gloub, of hope and also love about the spiritual and worldly standing of christianity. Zurich 1526 ( digitized version ).
  • Concilium. Hje in the buoch Wirt disputed, the pure lang zyt has sold: Heylgen Fürbitt, ouch des bapsts gwallt, from the fägfhür, also what the content, desglychen from the sacrament, from zinß, tenacious, gushes and runs, from bycht, what the before Good god, that's why sitting here against doctor. Zurich 1525 ( digitized version ).
  • Rychßtag. The noble and pauren breaks and laments, for Fridberg ghandlet on the rychßtag. Zurich 1526 ( digitized version ).
  • Eyn hüpsch song doctor Johansen Ecken and Fabers Badenfart concerning the MDXXVI. jar. Zurich 1526 ( digitized version ).
  • Uf doctor Thomas Murners calender. A nice song. Zurich 1527.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Utz, more correctly Uoz, is a call form of U (o) lrich; see Schweizerisches Idiotikon , Vol. I Sp. 632, keyword Uez .
  2. ↑ Cf. Niklaus Manuel : Fabers and Eggen Badenfahrt . 1526.
  3. ↑ Published by Salomon Vögelin in 1882.
  4. ↑ Humbel 1912, p. 236.
personal data
SURNAME Eckstein, Utz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acrogoniaeus; Eckstein, Huldrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reformed clergyman and pamphleteer
DATE OF BIRTH 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1558
Place of death Zurich