Lazarus Spengler

Lazarus Spengler ( * March 13, 1479 in Nuremberg, † September 7, 1534 ibid ) was a councilor, a major supporter of the Reformation in Nuremberg.

Life

He was the son of a Nuremberg council clerk and entered after the death of his father, with which he broke off his studies in Leipzig in 1494 begun after only two years, in 1496, even in the Council Chambers of the city. In 1507 he became the " front " scribe, ie head of the firm, and was promoted from 1516 itself councilor in the " Greater Council ". Early on, he sympathized with the movement of Martin Luther and wrote pamphlets, through which he instilled in the people of the Reformation ideas. He belonged to the " Ursula Brotherhood " and the " Sodalitas Staupitziana " and defended the doctrine of Martin Luther in his treatise

Which was published in 1519 without his knowledge. That's why it hit in 1520 with Luther the papal ban, but this was lifted after a superficial submission Spengler 1521.

As representatives of the city of Nuremberg in 1521, he traveled to the Diet of Worms, where he encouraged the personal encounter with Luther in his attitude. He sat on for the Reformation and protected Andreas Osiander, a preacher of Lorenz Church. As representatives of the Protestant alliance policy Spengler negotiated in careful maneuvering with the episcopate of Bamberg against the threat of ecclesiastical and legal attacks.

1525 continued the Reformation in Nuremberg by final. In the same year the Schottenstift St. Egidien in the first Protestant school of Nuremberg was to Spengler's operation and in collaboration with Philipp Melanchthon converted (later Melanchthon -Gymnasium ). As a consultant, practiced Spengler 1526/28 impact on the reformation of the Frankish margravates Brandenburg Ansbach and Brandenburg Kulmbach from. He was a participant at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530 and made ​​important employees at the Brandenburg- Nürnbergischen Church Order of 1533 should get the role model and a model.

Works

His writings include the lyrics of hymns by Adam's fall is all corrupt human nature and nature (1520 ), and vain is all toil and fare, as well as:

• One Erbarn libhabers götlicher warheyt (1520 )
• Ermanung and Undterweysung to a tugenhaften Change ( 1520)
• Ain Kurtzer conceptual VND vnterrichtung Aine gantzen warhaffften Christians Lichen being ( 1522)
• Responsibility and resolution ( 1524)
• As a Christian himself shall comfort in tribulation and adversity ( 1529)
• Excerpt from the papal rights ( 1530)
• The complete confession of faith, which was published in 1535 with a personal preface of Luther.

Remembrance

7 September Protestant calendar name.