Tilemann Heshusius
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Tilemann Heshusius (also Hesshus, Heßhusen, Hess Husen, Heshusen) (3 November 1527 in
Protestant reformer
.
Life
Heshusius came from an influential family in Wesel. He was a student of
Superintendent in Goslar and acquired his doctoral degree in Wittenberg on 19 May that year at the expense of the city. However, he soon came into conflict with Goslar and left in 1556 to take a post at the University of Rostock
.
There too he became involved in a dispute over Sunday weddings and the participation of Protestants in Roman Catholic celebrations. After attempting to excommunicate two leading city officials, he was expelled from the town. Melanchthon was able to arrange his appointment as general superintendent of the church of the
Electorate of the Palatinate in Heidelberg. In 1559 a controversy broke out in Heidelberg over the Lord's Supper between Heshusius and his deacon Wilhelm Klebitz. To restore peace, Elector Frederick released both clerics from their posts—a decision later approved by Melanchthon. He became involved in another controversy over the Lord’s Supper in Bremen, which did not redound to his glory, opposing Albert Hardenberg and Jacob Probst. Heshusius himself resigned and went from there to Magdeburg, where he received the pastorate at the Church of St. John in 1560 and the position of superintendent in 1561. But he would not refrain from publicly testifying against the Crypto-Calvinists, Synergists, and others, and he felt compelled to pronounce the ban on the city council.[1] After continuing to preach in spite of the prohibition he had received, the border warden and 30 to 40 armed citizens invaded and occupied his parsonage property at 3 a.m., with 500 armed citizens stationed at the gate, and he and his "very pregnant wife" were forcibly conducted out of the city on 21 October 1562.[2]
Even his hometown Wesel refused him asylum.
Jacob Andreae, Victorinus Strigel, Matthias Flacius
and all those who pursued the cause of Lutheran unity.
In 1573, when the Elector
Samland in 1573, but when Wigand turned against him, he was dismissed from his post. Martin Chemnitz helped him secure an influential position on the theology faculty at the newly established University of Helmstedt
. In 1578 his claims against Wigand were vindicated at the Herzberger Konvent.
Though he had earlier opposed the union efforts of Andreae, he was finally persuaded to sign the
Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
, also opposed the Formula, so that it was not accepted in his country, and thus lost much of its general authority.
Tilemann's sons, Gottfried Heshusius (1554-1625) and Heinrich Heshusius (1556-1597) followed him into the ministry and became Lutheran pastors and superintendents in the German lands, generally allied with Gnesio-Lutheran causes and universities.[3]
Translations
- Raising Wings Like the Eagles: Overview of Isaiah 40 and Commentary on Isaiah 40:30-31, translated by Nathaniel J. Biebert (Red Brick Parsonage, 2016).
- An Arduous Business: Overview of 1 Timothy, translated by Nathaniel J. Biebert (Red Brick Parsonage, 2016).
Further reading
- Peter F. Barton. Um Luthers Erbe: Studien und Texte zur Spätreformation Tilemann Heshusius (1527-1559). Witten, 1972.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1990). "HESSHUS (Heßhusen), Tilemann". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 2. Hamm: Bautz. cols. 789–791. ISBN 3-88309-032-8.
- Michael J. Halvorson. Heinrich Heshusius and Confessional Polemic in Early Lutheran Orthodoxy. Farnham, Eng.: Ashgate, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7546-6470-3.
- Robert Dollinger (1972), "Hesshus(en), Tilemann", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 9, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 24–25
- Wilhelm Gaß (1880), "Hesshusen, Tilemann", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 12, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 314–316
- K. v. Helmolt. Tilemann Hesshus und seine sieben exilia Leipzig 1859.
- Wolfgang Klose. Das Wittenberger Gelehrtenstammbuch: das Stammbuch von Abraham Ulrich (1549-1577) und David Ulrich (1580-1623), Mitteldt. Verl., Halle, 1999, ISBN 3-932776-76-3
- Thilo Krüger. Empfangene Allmacht: die Christologie Tilemann Heshusens (1527-1588) (Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte ) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010).
- Realenzyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche, vol. 8 p. 8
- Rosin, Robert. "Tilemann Hesshus." Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. (Oxford, 1996). vol. 2. pp. 237–8.
- Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, vol. 5, pp. 255–6.
- Heinz Scheible. Melanchthons Briefwechsel Personen 12. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2005. ISBN 3-7728-2258-4
- David Steinmetz. “Calvin and his Lutheran Critics,” in Calvin in Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. pp. 172–86
- Cornelius August Wilkens. Tilemann Hesshusius: Ein Streittheolog der Lutherskirche vornehmlich nach handschriftlichen Quellen. Leipzig 1860.
References
- ^ Life of Tilemann Heshusius, translated by Nathaniel J. Biebert (Red Brick Parsonage, 2016).
- ^ Johann Georg Leuckfeld, Historia Heshusiana oder Historische Nachricht von dem Leben, Bedienungen und Schrifften Tilemanni Heßhusii (Quedlinburg and Aschersleben, 1716), p. 33.
- OCLC 694147960.
External links
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls.
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