Andreas Althamer
Andreas Althamer (also Andreas Altheimer, Althammer ;) (* 1500 in Brenz; † around 1539 in Ansbach ), was a German humanist and reformer.
Life and work
Althamer studied after visiting the school in Augsburg at the universities of Leipzig and Tübingen. After finishing his studies, he became a school teacher in Halle ( Saale), Schwäbisch Hall and Reutlingen. 1524 we find him but as a priest in Schwäbisch Gmünd, where he planned to introduce the Reformation. Here he came out especially with his first script, which treated his marriage. However, the company failed because of the resistance of the Gmünd Council.
In 1525 he was deposed because of his Lutheran convictions and went to the University of Wittenberg, in order to escape persecution by the Swabian League. In Wittenberg, he began his study of theology and became the pupil of Martin Luther. In the summer of 1526 we find him in Nuremberg, where he was mainly active as a writer. As a pastor in 1527 Althamer Eltersdorf was in the spring, he completed his " Diallage " in which he confronted the Baptist Hans Denck.
Changed as a deacon at the Church of St. Sebald in Nuremberg, in 1528 he took part in the Bernese colloquy. In May, he was appointed on the recommendation of Lazarus Spengler of the Margrave George the Pious to the town priest in Ansbach. Along with Johann Rurer he performed the visitation. At the same time appeared in this work his " Catechism ", which has remained on the contemporary catechetical and liturgical literature is not without influence. In organizational terms, it is of great importance for the Frankish territory; he established synods and led by the Brandenburg- Ansbachische Church Order of 1533.
Also at the Frankish confessions he had not inconsiderable proportion. How much he was appreciated as a church organizer and theological writer, is also evident from the fact that he was asked in 1537 by Margrave Hans of Kuestrin to carry out the Reformation in the Neumark. When this energetic and talented man, shortly before the Nuremberg Convention of 1539, at which he should participate as Frankish envoy died, lost the Reformation in Franconia prematurely their most ardent supporters.
Letters and Handwriting
An important source for life Althamers are Latin letters, which were printed in Andreae Althameri Vita by Johann Arnold Ballenstedt ( Wolfenbüttel 1740). The pressure was from the Göttingen Digitisation Centre as DigiWunschbuch, divided into several bibliographic units, digitized:
- Bias and biographical introduction
- Page 31 and the following
- Page 45 and the following
- Page 57 and the following
Ballenstedt template was the humanist manuscript collection Althamers in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel 17:32. Aug. 4 ° description.
For more letters, discovered Hermann Ehmer in a manuscript of the Bamberg State Archives.
Works
- From the hochwirtigen Sacrament. Augsburg 1526 online
- From the Erbsund. Nuremberg 1527 online
- " Diallage, hoc est conciliatio locorum scripturae qui prima facie inter se pugnare videntur ", 1527
- " Catechism. This is teaching the Christian faith, how to teach and attract the youth, questioned Weis and response ", 1528
- " Silva biblicorum nominum, qua virorum, mulierum, populorum, civitatum etc. propria Vocabula, quorum in sacris bibliis mentio explicantor ", 1630
- "Comment on Tacitus Germania ", 1529; an expanded second edition was published in 1536 in Nuremberg under the title " Commentaria Germaniae in P. Cornelii Taciti Equitis Rome. "
- Diallage, hoc est, conciliatio locorum Scripturae. ...; Conciliationes locorum scripturae, qui specie tenus inter se pugnare videntur, Nuremberg 1544 online
A catalog of his works provides the VD 16