Tilemann Heshusius

Tilemann Hesshus (also: Heßhusen, Heshusius, Hess Husen, Heshusen; * November 3, 1527 in Wesel, † September 25, 1588 in Helmstedt ) was a Lutheran theologian.

Life

Hesshus comes from an influential family in Wesel. In Wittenberg he was Philipp Melanchthon students and stood close to him as such. During the time of the Augsburg Interim he lived in Oxford and Paris. In 1550, he earned the degree of Master of Arts, 1551 was included in the Senate of the faculty of philosophy and read about rhetoric and dogma. In 1553 he became superintendent in Goslar, acquired at the expense of the city on 19 May of the same year the doctoral degree in Wittenberg, but clashed with the city of Goslar in dispute and went in 1556 as a professor at the University of Rostock.

There, too, there was controversy because of Sunday weddings. Melanchthon gave him in 1557 the appointment as general superintendent of the Palatinate in Heidelberg. There were 1559 Eucharistic controversy. Elector Frederick III. deposed him, and Melanchthon proved him right. In Bremen, he appeared as " Gnesio-Lutherans against the" kryptocalvinistische " doctrine of the Eucharist Albert Hardenberg's on. From Magdeburg he wrote replies to his opponents and tried to impose the strictest Lutheranism. It came to a violent commotion, and Hesshus was reported.

Even his native city Wesel refused him asylum. Count Palatine Wolfgang gave him the post of superintendent in Neuburg an der Donau, after his death in 1565 Hesshus went to Jena as professor. There he argued that in addition to Word and Sacrament belong obedience to the Office of the marks of the church. Therefore, he fought Jacob Andreae, Victorin Striegel, Matthias Flacius and all those who operated the Lutheran Konkordienwerk.

When, after the death of Duke Johann Wilhelm I in 1573, the Saxon Elector Augustus took over the administration of Sachsen- Weimar, had to leave the country about 100 pastors. Hesshus and Johann Wigand went to Königsberg. There Hesshus was used in 1573 as Bishop of Sambia, but as Wigand turned against him, he was dismissed from office. Martin Chemnitz helped him to a professor in Helmstedt. On the Herzberger Convention in 1578, he was right against Wigand, after he had admitted to Concord.

Family

Hesshus married in 1553 in Goslar Anna Bert ( 1533-1564 ). She was the daughter of the mayor of Wesel Wessel by Bert († 1541). The couple had three sons and three daughters, including:

• Gottfried (1554-1625), court preacher and superintendent in Aurich, then in Minden ⚭ Speckhan Rebecca ( ​​daughter of Bremen Senator Erich Speckhan )
• Heinrich ( * 1556, † October 15, 1597 ), superintendent in Gräfentonna and Hildesheim ⚭ Gesa Hesichia († September 15, 1597 )
• Anna († April 10, 1600 ) ⚭ John OLEARIUS ( 1546-1623 ) Superintendent in hall

After her death he married on February 4, 1566 in Gera Barbara Musaeus (1550 - ), the daughter of the theologian Simon Musaeus and his wife Margarete noble houses. You probably had two sons:

• Theodor
• Tilemann