Thomas Naogeorgus

Thomas Naogeorg (us), and Thomas Kirch Meyer, Kirchmair, Neubauer ( born December 21, 1508 Straubing, † December 29 1563 in Wiesloch ) was a German neo-Latin playwright, Protestant theologian, reformer and pamphleteer.

Life

With its dramatic poems he has been an influence in the Reformation period. Naogeorg comes from a middle-class, who had first entered the Dominican convent of Regensburg. This he left in 1526 to connect the Reformation. He had a thorough classical education, it has developed in Tübingen with a master's degree. Of himself we only hear that he owed ​​the great realization of his life Martin Luther, and had been determined by him to fight. But In terms of teaching, he was also later as free and independent, so that the Wittenberg teachers were not always agree with him.

1533 to 1535 he was pastor in Mühltroff, then he moved in Sulza and 1541/42 through to Kahla. When he wanted to publish his interpretation of the first Epistle of John, refused to Wittenberg reformers Luther and Melanchthon imprimatur. This took offense at his teaching, the elect retained in spite of their sin the Holy Spirit. At court he was well regarded for its seals and put the pressure of his work by, it was even in 1544 taken as a preacher to the Diet of Speyer. After Luther's death he came once again under suspicion in the doctrine of the Eucharist not right to lehren.Caspar Aquila turned against him. Under interrogation in Weimar he could justify himself as to the Abendsmahlslehre, regarding the sinlessness of the elect, he was rejected.

Since he left Kahla and went to Augsburg, which wanted him earlier as a preacher. But in the confusion of the Augsburg Interim he was able to gain a foothold in Kaufbeuren, Kempten, Basel and Stuttgart, nowhere. In Esslingen am Neckar he could not stay because he too exposed in a witch trial. He became famous by his dramas, which were not only Germanized, but translated into other languages. Stark is his polemic against the papacy. His poems have been created in the main, during his restless wanderings until he died as a priest in Wiesloch of the plague. In tribute to his work, the Evangelical Church of St. Thomas the Wiesloch - Naogeorgus Prize awarded annually for outstanding achievements in the Protestant religious instruction.

Works

  • Pammachius, 1538
  • Mercator seu judicium, tragedy, 1540
  • Incendia seu Pyrgopolinices, Drama, 1541
  • Hamanus, tragedy, 1543
  • Carmen de bello Germanico, poems, 1548
  • Epitome ecclesiasticorum dogmatum, 1548
  • Agricultura sacra, 1550
  • Hieremias, tragedy, 1551
  • Judas Iscariotes, Drama, 1552
  • Satyrarum libri quinque, 1555
  • Regnum papisticum, 1555
  • Thomas Naogeorg: Complete Works, ed. Hans -Gert Roloff, Berlin 1975 f ( de Gruyter).
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