Johann Gramann
Johann Gramann ( or gray man named John Poli Ander by Gräzisierung from πολιός Polios, gray ' and ἀνήρ Aner, man ' with the root word ἀνδρ - andr -, born July 5, 1487 Dietersheim, † April 29, 1541 in Königsberg ) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor, theologian, educator, humanist, reformer and hymn writer. He was the rector of the St. Thomas School in Leipzig.
Life and work
Gramann comes from a resident in the Rhine -Main area artisan family. From 1503 he studied at the University of Leipzig and from 1519, inter alia, with Philipp Melanchthon and Martin Luther at the University of Wittenberg. In 1507 he received a bachelor and master's degree in philosophy in 1516. In 1520 he earned his bachelor of theology in Leipzig and lectured on Scripture. He became a teacher in 1516 and 1520 rector of the St. Thomas School in Leipzig. During his tenure, his Überwürfnis coincided with the Roman Catholic Church.
At the Leipzig disputation from June 27 to July 16, 1519 on the Pleissenburg between Martin Luther and Andreas Bodenstein and Johannes Eck, he took as his amanuensis, because of his friendship with the humanist Petrus Mosellanus and his beautiful handwriting the task Ecks speeches in writing resign. However, he then turned to the Reformation and became the opponent of Duke George of Saxony. From 1522 to 1525 he worked as a preacher and follower of Paul Speratus at Wurzburg Cathedral, and as a canon at the collegiate Neumünster, where he could not enforce the Reformation. In Würzburg he turned vehemently against the veneration of saints. The German Peasants' War drove him around at this time and he left the city 1525.
After a stopover in Wittenberg, where he made copies of Luther sermons, he was in the same year pastor at the Church of St. Clare in Nuremberg. On the recommendation of Luther Duke Albrecht of Prussia appointed him in 1526 to Königsberg. On his journey he preached in Eisleben and met Melanchthon and Luther in Wittenberg.
He served as pastor and successor of John Amandi at the Altstädtischer church. Especially with the advent of the radical Reformation movement the Baptist, he had to deal. In Rastenburger colloquy he stood by Martin Luther and urged the Baptist to Kaspar Schwenckfeld back.
Gramann advised the Duke particularly in the organization of the school system and founded the school itself, from the 1544 forerunner of the University of Konigsberg.
Together with Paul Speratus and Johann Briesmann he is one of the most important reformers in Prussia. Luther gave them the honorary title Prussorum Evangelistae.
As a song writer Gramann was the text to chant praise Well, my ' soul ' that men (EC 289, verses 1-4 ) is known, the Duke Albrecht was commissioned based on Psalm 103 and admission to the Psaltervertonung of Sigmund Hemmel found. The conductor Hans ball man set to music the work. Probably Gramann is also the author of the song Cheerful I have to sing.
Poli Ander bequeathed his private library Königsberg, which laid the foundation for the city library Königsberg.
Works (selection)
- A urteyl about the book Dr. Martin Luther hard against the aufrurenden pauren.
Remembrance
April 28 in the Protestant calendar name.