Friedrich Staphylus

Friedrich Staphylus ( born August 27, 1512 Osnabruck, † March 5, 1564 in Ingolstadt ) was a German Lutheran and Roman Catholic theologian.

Life

The son of Lüdeken stack layer and his wife Anna Birkmann was orphaned at an early stage. His uncle Eberhard Birkmann therefore took over his education, after which he came to Gdansk. Later he continued his education in Lithuania, where he learned the Lithuanian and Russian language. His first studies began at the University of Krakow, where he developed his Polish language skills. Philosophical and theological studies he set in 1530 at the University of Padua on. 1533 he returned to Danzig. In 1536 he continued his studies at the University of Wittenberg, where on May 8, In 1541 he acquired the academic degree of Master of Philosophy as the best graduate and was included in the Senate of the Faculty of Arts on 18 October 1543.

On the recommendation of Philipp Melanchthon, he was in 1546 as a successor to the late Stanislaus Rapagelanus professor of theology at the University of Königsberg. As initially orthodox representatives of the evangelical teaching concept he came here in a confrontation with William Gnapheus that was eventually removed from the university service and was expelled from Prussia. In the winter semester 1547/48 he was rector of the University of Königsberg, but could not fulfill the expectations placed in him. In the fall of 1548, therefore, he gave up his theological lectures. He remained as the Council of Duke Albrecht of Prussia further in Königsberg.

A disease caused him to leave Königsberg. He went to Breslau, where he of Johann Hess married on October 19, 1549 Anna, daughter. In 1550, he returned to Königsberg, where he fell into a fateful confrontation with Andreas Osiander. This led him in 1551 to submit his resignation at the court of the Duke and 1552 to move to Gdańsk, where he wrote a standing in the Roman Catholic tradition, Scripture Synod sanctorum patrum antiquorum contra nova dogmata Andreae Osiandri (Nuremberg, 1553). He returned to Breslau, where he fully converted in 1553 to Catholicism. He then went into the service of the Bishop of Balthasar Promnitz after Neisse, where he campaigned for the establishment of a Catholic seminary.

From 1555 on, he served as Consul Ferdinand I with the imperial religious policy and participated as such in 1557 at Worms Colloquy. The internal divisions in the Protestant church he knew it to use for themselves. He had published in the series of very polemical writings against the Protestants. After he had also participated in the Council of Trent, in 1558 the Bavarian Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria ( 1528-1579 ) appointed him to the council, he became in 1559 a doctorate due to a papal instruction on May 19, 1559 Augsburg as a doctor of theology. As such, he was appointed professor at the University of Ingolstadt to teach history, humanities and theology. In Ingolstadt, he arrived in May 1560. Here he took part in the reform of the Jesuit College as Superintendent and established himself in the burgeoning counter-reformation. For this he received the recognition of the pope and was knighted by the Emperor on July 15, 1562.

Works

  • Diodori Siculi fragmenta ex Graeco in latinum versa.
  • Historia et Apologia Utriusque Partis, Catholicae Et Confessionariae, de dissolutione Colloquii nuper Wormatiae institu ad omnes Catholicae fidei Protectores. Vienna 1558 ( Online)
  • Theologiae Martini Lutheran Trimembris Epitome. Worms 1558 ( Online)
  • Aigentliche and warhaffte Description Weß bey the magnificent Besingknuß as the Romans. Kay. May the Emperor Ferdinand IRER May dear brother unnd Kayser Carlen the fünfften high Löblich Rochester Gedächtnus on 24th and 25th February the 59th Jars of Augsburg ordenlich ... held up everywhere laughed openly. Dillingen 1559 ( Online)
  • Historam de vita, morte et gestis Caroli V. Augsburg 1559 ( Online)
  • Defensio Pro Trimembri Theologia M. Lvtheri, Contra Aedificatores Babylonicae Tvrris. Phil Melanthonem, Shvvenckfeldianum Longinum, And. Musculum, Mat FLACC. Illyricum, Iacobum Andream Shmidelinum. Dillingen 1561
  • Vanguard to rescue the book. From the right had understood the Divine worts, by interpreting the Bible Teütschen, VND From the ainigkeit Lutheran Predicanten. Ingolstadt 1561 ( Online)
  • Christian to report to the godly gemainen Layen. Ingolstadt 1561 ( Online)
  • Prodromus D. Friderici Staphyli, In Defensionem Apologiae suae, de vero germanoque scripturae sacrae intellectu etc. Latine redditus by F. Laurentium Surium Carthusianum. Cologne 1562
  • Hysterodromum.
  • Lucubrationes super plurimas sessions ad Concilium cum libris II De republica Christiana.
  • Oratio de bone litteris. 1550
  • Synod Patrum contra Osiandrum. 1553
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