Peter Michael Brillmacher

Peter Michael Brill artist ( * 1542 in Cologne, † August 25, 1595 in Mainz, actually Peter Michael ) was a German Jesuit.

Life

Peter Michael Brill maker was in Cologne in 1542, the son of Marcus Michaels, called Brill -maker, was born. Peter Brill makers came in 1558 in the Society of Jesus, in the following year, the University of Cologne gave him the baccalaureate and another year later he became a master of arts. 1561 he joined the College in Trier. 1566 or 1567 he was ordained priest; in 1567 he held his first Mass in Mainz. At the university he learned the Greek and the Hebrew language. He then worked as a preacher. Since May 1567, he studied the Oriental languages ​​then at the University of Paris, came back in 1568 as preacher to Mainz, where he became taught Hebrew. From the autumn of 1569 he preached in the cathedral of Speyer. After he became in 1570 vice-rector at the Jesuit College ibid., he soon moved on to the Rector and left the College 1579. Subsequently he preached in Cologne, in 1585 as a preacher and advisor to the Duke of Jülich -Cleves -Berg in Kleve and Dusseldorf and had the place on an ad two years as a result of an intrigue. Then again it is detectable as a preacher in Cologne. There was a fight with Stephan Isaac, who had converted from Judaism to Calvinism. 1588 he came as rector of the Jesuit College of Münster, at the same time he was also headmaster of the grammar school Paulinum. Both places he held until his death on August 25, 1595 in Mainz held.

Works

• Controversiarum de Eucharistiae augustissimo Sacramento Dialogi quinque ( three volumes; Cologne 1584)
• Catechism (Cologne 1586)
• Evidiotheca, Brillenkästlein ( 1593)