Argula von Grumbach

Argula of Grumbach, born Reichsfreiin of Stauff (* around 1492 to honor rock castle ( Bavaria ); † unsure: June 23, 1568 Zeilitzheim ) was a Protestant reformer and publicist.

Life

Argula was born as a daughter of the baron Bernardine of Stauff and his wife Catherine of Toerring to Seefeld on the castle rock in honor of today's Beratzhausen. My father received from the Bavarian Duke Albrecht IV the office of captain of Landshut. Argula came as maid of honor at the court of Munich Duchess Gwendolyn, an educated woman to whom they owed ​​their education. When her parents died of the plague in 1509, the Duchess of their adopted particularly. 1516 she married the Frankish knights Friedrich von Grumbach, who was nurse in Unterdietfurt. From the marriage, which ended in 1530 with the death of Frederick, went four children - George, Hans Georg Gottfried and Appolonia, of which only Gottfried survived his mother.

The conflicts of the Reformation went to her not pass unobserved. She read the writings of Martin Luther and performed with Paul Speratus in conjunction. In 1523 she could say of himself, " I have read of Dr. Martinus everything assumed in German tongue " was. She also wrote to Luther himself and stood with Georg Spalatin and Andreas Osiander in correspondence.

As in Ingolstadt, the 18- year-old Wittenberg Master Arsacius Seehofer was forced to recant and banished to the monastery of Ettal, she traveled to Osiander, to discuss with him what to do. Osiander was amazed at the knowledge of the Bible Argulas. Now they came up with a few letters to the Duke and to the University, which created a great stir. Particularly noteworthy are " christentlich Scripture ainer Erbarn women of the nobility, sy erma in all christentliche authoritarian Ain, bey to bleyben the Warheit and the word of God and such to handthaben seriously on christenliche duty " both her writings ( 1523) and "How eyn Christian Fraw the nobility in Beiern by Jren in Gotlicher writing wolgegründten Sendtbrieffe the high school zuo Jngoldstat vmb betrangt they wydersprechung a Euangelischen Juengling zuo of the word of God have straffet. " ( 1523). "How eyn Christian Fraw " was quickly and numerously duplicated, so that in less than two months after the composition of 14 issues had already appeared.

Your commitment to the Reformation brought her a lot of suffering. Your spouse has taken the office, the family got into trouble, the relationship came sharply against them. These setbacks could not overcome Argula. Luther called it in a letter to his friend Johann Briesmann in Königsberg " a unique instrument of Christ, " and stressed that they lead their big fight with spirit and Christian knowledge.

None of her letters to the university was ever answered. Under the pseudonym Johannes von Landshut even a satirical poem was written on it, replied to the Argula of Grumbach with a much longer poem.

Argula put their hope in the second Diet of Nuremberg. She appeared there and was asked by the Count Palatine for an interview. However, their hopes were not realized itself. Luther, you could not just write, Spalatin, who was in 1524 in Nuremberg, to greet him and to comfort him she asked. In later years she joined a publicist is no longer produced. It was to them still and lonely. 1530 she visited Luther at the Coburg and led a conversation with him.

From her later career only a few messages are received. After her husband died, she married for the second time in 1533, a Count Schlick to Passau, but was soon a widow.

From the Straubinger Urkundenbuch result, she was imprisoned as a 70 -year-old in 1563 in Straubing, because they have led their subjects in Koefering to fall away from the Catholic Church by reading seditious books.

Your tomb is located at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Sigismund in Zeilitzheim.

Remembrance

June 23 in the Protestant calendar name.

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