Matthew of Janow

Matthias of Janov ( Czech Matěj z Janova; * 1350-1355 in Janov, † November 30, 1393 in Prague) was Czech priest, writer and philosopher and reformer.

Life

The son of the knight Wenzel of Janov and pupil of Johann Militsch of Kremsier, whom he honored later in Život ctihodného Kneze milice studied, with the support of his fellow countryman Vojtěch RANKOV z Ježová first in Prague, from 1373 in Sorbonne, where he is the examination of the Master liberal arts stores. Matthias is dedicated to the theology doctorate in 1380, attended the 1381 Pope Urban VI. in Rome and asks for a Prebend. About Nuremberg, he returns as a pauper philosophans back to Prague is by the Archbishop John of Jenstejn to the canon of the Prague chapter and confessor in St. Vitus Cathedral. Later he receives a pension Prebend in Neudorf b. Rischkau, but lives on in Prague and is dedicated to studying the Bible and literature. His sermons he holds in Latin. In warning against the worship of images and saints, and invited the faithful to daily if possible take the Lord's Supper. He also advocated the use by laymen. His views eventually led to conflicts with the Prague consistory. 1388 he was transferred to the provincial parish Michel village.

Work

Matthias wrote a series of Latin writings, which he published in 1392 in a five -volume work, said of the Palacky: "It is a valuable work and one of the best writings, which was written from a bohemian spring for centuries ... ". However, the work was a short time later forgotten, because it went too far for Catholics in his principles and the Reformers not go far enough. It was not about Matthias separation from the Catholic Church. He was looking for a new path to the original faith of Christ and his apostles, it is divided into twelve rules one of the first and most important thing says that only Jesus Christ is the standard, raising the bar of Christian life. His opponents finally got him that he in 1389 and again later appear before the archbishop's court, had to have to face the suspicion of heresy and eventually recanted some of his views.

Works

  • Regulae veteris et novi testamenti (5 volumes, 1387 ), which are also considered to be theoretical, theological and radical works of the Bohemian Reformation, build the representatives of the Hussites to the later, such as Jakobellus of Mies.
  • Kazani
  • Tractatus de præcepti Domini
  • Super passione Cristi
  • De decem preceptis
  • Život ctihodného Kneze milice
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