Johann Stössel

Johann ram ( born June 23, 1524 Kitzingen, † March 18, 1576 in Senftenberg ) was a Protestant theologian and reformer.

Life

With 15 years of ram had come to Wittenberg, where he was master after 10 years. So he stayed away from the Philippists, Duke Johann Friedrich appointed him as the Middle Hofprediger to Weimar. Here he became a zealous Gnesio-Lutherans. As such, he participated in the introduction of the Reformation in the Margraviate of Baden -Durlach. Schroff as he was, he wanted to make there the church order with anathemas against all dissenters.

In the colloquy in Worms in 1557 and in the drafting of Konfutationsbuches he showed otherwise. His attitude he defended in a special apology. When he accompanied his Duke to Heidelberg, he tried to influence the Elector Frederick the Pious in his senses. There he disputed with Pierre Boquin about the sacrament. In the following years continued in him a change of heart.

When he began to sound a note of reconciliation with other directions, the break with the Gnesiolutheranern had come. Matthias Flacius and Johann Wigand sued him in court, but were even removed from office. Ram was appointed professor in Jena. Because of the Declaration Nicholas Selnecker and others returned to Jena, but soon left again the university. Ram was left as the only theologian. During this time he received his doctorate Paul Eber as the first doctor in Jena.

1567 had to ram the change of government the Gnesiolutheranern soft. A short time he was superintendent in Mühlhausen / Thuringia and then in Pirna, even rose in the favor of the Elector Augustus so much that he became confessor of the sovereign. But then came his rapid fall. Ram occurred for unknown reasons for Dresdner crypto Calvinists, was denounced to the Elector and brought to the fort, where he died after a brief illness.