Simon Sulzer

Simon Sulzer ( born September 23, 1508 Schattenhalb, † June 22, 1585 in Basel ) was a Reformed theologian, reformer and Antistes at Basler Munster.

Life

Sulzer was a priest child. He received his education in Bern and Lucerne. The sudden death of his father, the provost of Interlaken, prompted him to make by hand work, the upkeep. He worked as a barber in Strasbourg and used this time to listen to lectures by Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito. 1531 he went to Basel, where Simon took his Grynaeus. Here he worked as a proofreader in the printing of Johann army car and was next employed as a teacher. Since 1533 he worked in Bern in teaching and merits earned by the schools.

At the request of the Council of Bern, he studied further in 1537 and received his master's degree. As a friend of the Wittenberg Concord he was in Wittenberg in 1536 and was, as he told his friend Joachim von Watt himself, greatly impressed by Martin Luther. The disagreement with him was inflicted by the Swiss. Meanwhile in Bern the older Reformers Berchtold Haller and Franz Kolb had died, and a new direction was introduced by certain theologians of Strassburg, to which he also stayed. As a learned and eloquent man, he soon became the head of the Bernese clergy. Its effectiveness was one-sided and not always clear. He consumed himself in battle with the followers of Ulrich Zwingli, whom he had finally 1548 soft yet.

In 1549 he was included in Basel, first as pastor at St. Peter's Church, then as a professor ( 1552, he was rector of the University ) and in 1553 as Antistes the Basel Church. Here he proceeded more cautiously than in Bern. His church work went out on an agreement between Germans and Swiss, although he maintained the distance from the Zwinglian and Calvinistic direction. His Lutheran tendencies left him for the Formula Concordiae against the Helvetica posterior position to take, even for private confession, organ and full peal occur. Thus he came to a lopsided position on the Swiss churches and provoked an opposition. For Basel his work was a temporary episode.

When the Reformation was introduced in the Margraviate of Baden -Durlach, he had big hand in it. He ordained evangelical preacher for this area and led by 1556 church visitations. Without his Basler Office abandon, he served as Superintendent in Baden. Sulzer was a until the age of zeal and responsibility satisfied man, whom many revered among the clergy.