Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck

Jacob Sturm of Sturmeck (also Jacob Sturm of Sturmeck, Jaques de storm Sturmeck; * August 10, 1489 in Strasbourg, † October 30, 1553 ) was a reformed mayor of Strasbourg.

Life

Coming from the old patrician family of Sturmeck storm, he was educated at the universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg to lawyers, before joining in 1517 as a librarian and secretary in the service of the Count Palatine Henry.

In 1523 he turned Reformed circles, gave its previous position, and had himself elected in the Strasbourg city council. The following year he became a member of the responsible for the constitution and administration of Fifteen college, but also exerted influence on the politics of the city in the German Peasants' War from, who had in 1525 extended to the Alsace.

In 1526 he became a member of the foreign policy -determining Thirteeners College and took as an envoy of his city at the Reichstag in Speyer, where he distinguished himself as a representative of the cities rights.

At his instigation, Strasbourg joined Confederation in 1531 the Smalcald, in his meetings he also represented the city from 1532 to 1546 mostly.

1537 he convened the unrelated with him humanist Johannes Sturm in the city, founded the library in 1538 and that Protestant school, which was finally converted in 1567 by Emperor Maximilian II to the Academy in 1621 and charged by Emperor Ferdinand II to the university.

In 1538 he gave 1500 French Protestants in Strasbourg asylum. After the defeat of the Smalcald League in the Smalcald War he kept Strasbourg both the political as well as religious freedom.

His hometown honors him with a larger than life statue on the facade of the erected to Wilhelmine times "little Boucherie ". His evangelical feast day is October 30.