Erasmus Alberus

Erasmus Alberus, origin. Alber (* 1500 in Bruchenbrücken; † May 5, 1553 in Neubrandenburg ) was a German theologian, reformer and writer of hymns and fables.

  • 2.1 poems, satires, fables
  • 2.2 poem example
  • 3.1 Hymns
  • 3.2 fables
  • 3.3 Latin fonts
  • 3.4 satires, tracts and pamphlets

Life

Youth and studies

Alberus was the son of a Catholic priest Tilemann Alber in Bruchenbrücken ( now part of Friedberg ( Hesse ) ) was born, which was later converted and the first protestant pastor in Engelrod. After high school ( grammar schools in Nidda and Weilburg ) Alberus initially began a humanistic studies in Mainz and enrolled to study theology in 1520 at the University of Wittenberg. This included, among other things, Martin Luther and Andreas Bodenstein his teachers. Initially thrilled by the ideas ground stone, he eventually became one of the most passionate champions of Lutheranism.

Wandering life

After studying Alberus taught until 1522 Budingen, where he founded a Latin school and his wife Katharina married, then in Eisenach. In 1528, he became pastor in Sprendlingen (now a district of Dreieich ) introduced, where he lived until the death of his wife in 1536 and how the Duchy Kiistrin the Reformation. From 1539 Alberus led a kind of wandering: Short stay in Marburg and Basel joined parishioners items ob der Tauber and in the Wetterau in Rothenburg. In 1541 the appointment as superintendent ended in Neustadt (Dosse ) with Alberus ' dismissal, reason: a controversy with Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg on the taxation of clergy.

1543 doctorate Alberus in Wittenberg as a doctor of theology. After the expiration of his employment contract in Staden ( today part of Florstadt ) he received in 1544 with Count Philip IV of Hanau -Lichtenberg in Babenhausen a job; even there he spread the ideas of Lutheranism. Again Alberus clashed with his master to each other (supposedly the count had broken his word against him), there was a process and Alberus ' again leaving a parish. He fled to Wittenberg, and was welcomed with Luther and Philipp Melanchthon.

1548 he went to Magdeburg and was in the following years on the part of Gnesio-Lutherans, next to Matthias Flacius, one of the sharpest spokesman against the Augsburg Interim and the Leipzig article. The result was again the dismissal from service ( 1551 ), this time brought by Maurice of Saxony, which he had sharply attacked in pamphlets.

Death and posthumous reputation

After living in Hamburg and Lübeck Alberus 1552 appointed to the southeast of the country from Mecklenburg Duke Johann Albrecht I was the first superintendent of the church district Stargard to Neubrandenburg. Alberus resigned the office on until March 1553 seven weeks before his death. In the midst of renewed disputes, this time with the municipal authorities of the city, who felt ignored by the Duke, died Erasmus Alberus on May 5, 1553 with a neck disease.

On the Raising of Lazarus by Lucas Cranach in the Evangelical Church of Nordhausen is to be found among the spectators, including Erasmus Alberus, something hidden behind Martin Luther. Wilhelm Raabe made ​​in his novel Our Lord God's law firm Alberus one of the main characters.

Work

Poems, satires, fables

In his poems and satires Alberus represented, as in his numerous pamphlets and tracts, vehemently Martin Luther's theses against the Catholic Church and stood clearly on the side of the Gnesio-Lutherans to Andreas Osiander and Matthias Flacius.

His fable is considered important literary achievement of the 16th century. Already at Alberus 's lifetime inspired writers such as Hans Sachs Starting designed by the Aesop fable Alberus short dialogues whose morality he reformatory, educational and polemical extended and enriched by describing their own experiences and descriptions of the native landscape.

Alberus ' poem God, the Gospel was set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach ( BWV 316).

Poem example

Works

Hymns

  • My dear Christians, you now looking forward (EC 6/EKG 3)
  • My soul, O Lord, must praise you (EC 308)
  • Get up, you love Kinderlein (EC 442/EKG 338 )
  • We thank God for his gifts (EC 458/EKG 372)
  • Christ, Thou art the light of day (EC 469/EKG 354)

Fables

  • Several fable Esopi, Germanized and brought into rhymes. Haguenau, 1534
  • The book of virtue and wisdom, namely 49 fables. Frankfurt aM, 1550 (2nd edition the fable Esopi. )

Latin writings

  • Iudicium Erasmi Alberti de Spongia Erasmi Roterodami. 1524
  • Praecepta morum utilissima or lighting of the Ten Commandments by Bible verses and passages from ecclesiastical and secular scriptures in German rhymes. 1536 (2nd edition 1537, 3rd edition 1545/48 )
  • Novelty Dietionarii genus. Frankfurt am Main, 1540 ( First German dictionary and rhyming dictionary )
  • Virtutes comitis. 1545

Satires, tracts and pamphlets

  • Book of marriage. 1536
  • The mendicant monks Eulenspiegel and Alkoran. Wittenberg, 1542 ( With preface Luther ) ( digitized )
  • Dialogue or conversation of several persons from the interim. 1548
  • Admonition to the Christian church in Saxony country. 1549
  • The children to Hamburg. 1551
  • Against the Lester Book of hochfliehenden Osiander. 1551
  • Brief description of the Wetterau. 1552
  • From the children's christening. 1555
  • Against the teaching of Carl cursed Stader. 1556 ( 2nd edition 1594 )
Protestant Reformers History of the term "Catholic" Friedberg, Hesse Nidda, Hesse Andreas Karlstadt Neustadt (Dosse) Philip IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg Leipzig Interim Maurice, Elector of Saxony Wilhelm Braune Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Neue Deutsche Biographie Theodor Kolde Integrated Authority File
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