Conrad Vetter

Conrad S. J. Vetter (* 1548 in Engen, † October 11, 1622 in Munich) was a Swabian Jesuit and writer of the Counter Reformation.

Life

Cousin attended school in his native gene and then served for several years despite his youth as a chaplain of the Ladies pin in Schwäbisch Hall. At the age of 28, he entered the Jesuit order in 1576 in Munich at. Even as a novice showed his brilliant rhetoric as well as his oratorical talent that predestined him for future propagandists of the Counter-Reformation outright. His monk Guido Maria Dreves S. J. designated in the 19th century cousin unusual talent as " well as fruit - awful ".

Cousin oratorical reputation spread rapidly, and in 1588 he was employed as a preacher in Regensburg, where he particularly excelled by conversion of many Protestants. However, his sharp polemical anti-Lutheran publications met with considerable criticism, even from within the ranks. Even the great Catholic historian Johannes Janssen attested him an almost " unedifying craftsmanship " in the German language.

Especially through the translations of the Counter-Reformation writings of Jakob Gretser SJ cousin became known quickly. To achieve the lowest classes, he used a folksy - pictorial, blustering - Bavarian sound that makes them stand out him out of the usual, drier controversial theological literature.

Works (selection)

  • Jacob Gretser and Conrad Vetter: Pvffer. This is Zerschmetterungen concerning Predicantischen Jesus cons mirror Philip Brunner's salvation. be with a lively description of his vnnd Zunfftgenossen Predicantischen Spirit, which is peeping - blasphemous - Lermen - Auffrhur Murder vnnd Blutgirigen spirit .... Angermair, Ingolstadt 1601 ( digitized, retrieved on March 23, 2013).
  • Conrad Vetter: The Zwogestalthaffte Luther. That is: Handle and justifiably, as Doctor Martin Luther wirdt can ... apologize to the excited fine by him ... Zanck and Zwyspalt, of necessity, the two figures in the H. Sacrament concerning the altar, on the last day. Eder, Ingolstadt 1602 ( digitized, retrieved on March 23, 2013).
  • Jacob Gretser and Conrad Vetter: Flaelavg. That is: A scharffer VND bitter, but heylsamer Laugenguß to säuberlicher Abzwagung concerning vngesunden Kopffs, vnnd unclean Niergrinds a vnbekandten vnnd vnbenanten fable Hansen, VND Novell assistants, which from that to which Christlichisten king in Franckreich VND Navarren, Henrico IV begangne ​​murder stucco VND manslaughter, otherwise also heymblich to seal the Iesvitern by offelichen Truck, VND VND verschlagner White, presume with good conscience Euangelischem vnnd assiduously. Sartorius, Ingolstadt 1610 ( digitized, retrieved on March 23, 2013).
  • Para Deiss bird ... Himmelische praise, ed. Gerhard Dünnhaupt. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1999 ( Ndr d ed 1613 ) ISBN 3-7772-9923-5
  • Jacob Gretser and Conrad Vetter: Schlaffhauß the breakaway Mammelucken. newlich of a vnbekanten, VND lying not schläfferigen, special merry Infamanten to shameful infringement of the namhafften VND weitberhümbten Mann, Ioannis D. Pistorii, & c. as well as others, so do VND Princely persons, high reputation, VND laudable Ruffs, auffgebawet. Angermair, Ingolstadt 1616 ( digitized, retrieved on March 23, 2013).

Literature (selection )

  • Dieter Breuer: Upper German literature from 1565 to 1650. Munich 1979
  • Bernard Duhr: History of the Jesuits in the lands German tongue. Freiburg 1907
  • Theodor Kurrus: " Conrad cousin ", in: Encyclopedia of Theology and Church, Vol 10 (Freiburg, 1965), pp. 758 f
  • Heinrich Thoelen: Menologium or life images from the history of the German Province of the Society of Jesus. Stomdrukkerij, Roermond 1901

Literature and catalog raisonné

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt: Conrad S. J. Vetter ( 1548-1622 ). In: Personal bibliographies on the printing of the Baroque, Bd.6. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7772-9305-9, pp. 4135-71
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