Johann Funck
Johann Funck (also: radio, Funccius ) ( born February 7, 1518 Wöhrd at Nuremberg; † October 28, 1566 in Königsberg, Prussia Duchy ) was a German Protestant theologian.
Life
The son of a fisherman had matriculated at the University of Wittenberg in the winter semester 1536/37. The Wittenberg Academy was at that time one of the largest universities in Germany. Here he first completed a study of philosophical and theological sciences. This was in accordance with those times, first a philosophical foundation course. The most important representative of the philosophical faculty at Wittenberg was Philipp Melanchthon. Next to him was diminished mainly by teachers as Balthazar Fabricius in Poetics, Veit Winsheim as a Greek language teacher and teacher of rhetoric, Matthew Aurogallus as a Hebrew teacher, Georg Joachim Rheticus and Reinhold Erasmus as professors of mathematics and Veit Amerbach as a professor of physics.
On April 28, 1538, he earned the lowest academic degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He had acquired ability to pass on his knowledge itself and to earn some extra money so. Had he so sure his living in Wittenberg, he was also able to visit more lectures. For example, at the theological faculty at Wittenberg, which had been the major figurehead of the university. Here acted Martin Luther, Johannes Bugenhagen, Justus Jonas and Caspar the Elder Cruciger the Elder. To what extent these promoted a direct training with him, can not be ascertained with reference to the certificate location. Without question, however, have left a lasting impression on him these people.
For after he had acquired the philosophical master's degree on February 11, 1539 he was ordained on January 12, 1541 in Wittenberg as a deacon for Seyda. Funck he joined in 1541 as a deacon by Oschatz 1543 and returned to his hometown as a pastor back. In Wöhrd he published a continuation of Cronicons of Johannes Carion of Melanchthon, which had brought him much recognition. 1547, in the wake of the Protestant counter-movements of the Smalcald War, moved the imperial army in Wöhrd so that the City Council exhorted him to act more reserved in his sermons.
There, however, never came. Shortly before the quartering of the Spanish troops fled from the expected hardships against evangelical preachers. Rejecting a disciplinary transfer, he was released on May 2, 1547 from his parish in Wöhrd. He initially remained in Nuremberg, where he married and got a recommendation to the court of Albrecht of Prussia by Veit Dietrich. On October 28, 1547 he arrived in Königsberg, was working for Albrecht in Lithuania Minor, and accompanied him in 1548 on a trip to Poland. Back in Königsberg he was parish administrator and finally pastor at the Old Town Church. In January 1549 Albrecht called him to his court chaplain and Councilor.
In that position, he was an avid follower of the doctrine of justification Andreas Osiander, whose daughter Agnes he married in 1560.
As part of the dispute Osiandrian many opponents of the position were removed from their posts. After the death of Osiander these contentions did increase. Finally, he succumbed to the growing pressure that was exerted on him; he had his " heresies " in 1556 revoked. However, this defeat did not withdraw him the favor of the Grand Master Albrecht. Nevertheless, the criticisms of the reinforced.
It made him responsible for the church-political conditions in the Duchy. Even after 1563, demonstrated with four sermons to append no longer the Osiandrian doctrine, a Polish commission was set up at the instigation of the estates in 1566, which should see the condition. The Commission came to the conclusion that Funck had endangered the public peace by his attitude in Osiandrian dispute. This was the Commission a high betrayal and he was sentenced to the ducal councilors Matthias Horst and John Quick to a Beheading, which took place on October 28, 1566 at the market of Kneiphof.