Jakob Beurlin

Jacob Beurlin (* 1520 in Dornstetten, † October 28th 1561 in Paris) was a German Protestant theologian and reformer.

Life and work

Beurlin was born as the son of the mayor in Dornstetten, where he continued his education at first enjoyed in his hometown and in Horb in the old faith. In November 1533 he enrolled at the University of Tübingen. First, he remained faithful to the old faith and graduated in 1541 a humanistic education with the academic degree of Master of Arts from.

Strongly influenced Johann Forster, Paul Phrygios and especially Erhard Schnepfs he gradually changed its position to the Protestant faith and convinced his parents of the same. In 1546 he married the daughter of Matthew Alber at the same time and took over the parish Derendingen (Tübingen). When he in 1551 acquired the academic degree of doctor of theology, he was appointed professor in Tübingen.

In 1551 he traveled on behalf of Duke Christoph of Württemberg to Langensalza to Joachim Camerarius the Confessio Virtembergica that should be passed at the Council of Trent, to compare with the Confessio Saxonica of Philipp Melanchthon. As theological adviser of the Württemberg Messenger Beurlin stayed from November 1551 to January 1552 in Trent, but had to Brenz, among others in March 1552 again to Trent, to defend the meantime the council passed Confessio Virtembergica. However, they returned without result because they were denied a statement. In the next few years he devoted himself entirely to his academic office, held exegetical and dogmatic lectures and worked with success in academic administration.

In 1554 he was selected as a mediator in the dispute Osiandrian by Christoph von Württemberg and sent to Königsberg. His mediation attempts failed, however. After initial successes, the mission ultimately proved fruitless. Duke Albrecht would have gladly held the superior, learned man in the land and offered him a Bt at which beat out the Schwabe, however, because he did not like the theological position there. Of course, he kept the dispute no longer a word bickering as it wanted to know construed Brenz, and moved away gradually from this. Therefore, Jacob Andreae it was preferred in the home now, who took over the political missions in the following years.

So Beurlin was also at the synod in Stuttgart in 1559 and defended with Brenz the Confessio Wirtembergica against the attacks of the Dominican Peter de Soto. Duke Christoph appointed him in 1561 to the provost and chancellor of the University of Tübingen and sent him with Jacob Andreae and Balthasar Biden stream in October 1561 to the colloquy to Poissy. When the conversation in Poissy was canceled, he died of the plague in Paris.

The funeral oration on Beurlin in the academic memorial service held in Tübingen Dietrich Schnepf ( 1525-1586 ). Hans Schickhardt created in 1564 at the expense of the University of Tübingen in the collegiate church of Tübingen Gedächtnismal.

Swell

• Dietrich Schnepf: D. Iacobus Beurlinus Redivivus & Immortalis. Hoc est Oratio funebris De vita pia, & lugubri obitu Theological ..., Dn. D. Jacobi Bevrlini Dornstettensis ... Qui ad Colloquium Possiacenum in Galliam ablegatus, Lutetie Parisiorum 28 Octobris Peste peremtus in Festo DD. Apostolorum Simonis & Iudae Ann 61 in coemetario Templi p Trinity, matri terrae redditus, a ... Dn. D. Theodorico Schnepfio ..., Tübingen: Dietrich Werlin Elder. 1613