Johann Faber of Heilbronn

Johannes Fabri (* 1504 in Heilbronn, † February 27, 1558 in Augsburg, Johannes Faber and Johann Fabri ) was a Dominican friar and preacher from 1549 in Augsburg. He has emerged as a Catholic theologian and author of numerous controversial writings which opposed the Reformation.

Life

Fabri was born in 1520 in Heilbronn and entered the Dominican monastery in a Wimpfen. In 1534 he was preacher in Augsburg, but then came after the ban the Catholics sermons by the Augsburg magistrate to Cologne, where he studied and published from 1535 onwards first writings. In one of the documents, the attempted reformation is described in Wimpfen by Erhard Schnepff. Fabri returned from Cologne in the time being remaining altgläubig Wimpfen back, looked around then confronted there with the change of faith and turned in the spring of 1540 to Colmar. In 1544 he came as a preacher to Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1546 he became a preacher and prior in Schlettstadt. After happy for the Catholic side entrance to the Smalcald War, he was recalled in 1547 as preacher in the back become Catholic Augsburg.

In Augsburg he wrote most of his more than 20 often polemical writings, which turned partly in German, partly in Latin, especially against Baptist and Lutheran. Among his writings were also The Right Way ( 1553), The Spiritual Teaching ( 1556 ), a catechism ( 1551 ), a Beichtbüchlein ( 1550) and a prayer book. His main work is considered what the Mass is Protestant, thorough and Christian Anzeigungen from the scriptures and from the ancient holy Doctors of the Church ( 1555). The Lutheran theologian Flacius Illyricus published under whose diatribes against Fabri. After 1552, he earned his doctorate at the University of Ingolstadt under Peter Canisius as a doctor of theology, he taught at the Theological Faculty. He was buried in 1558 in Augsburg Dominican church.