Štefan Pilárik (1615 – 1693), slovenský evanjelický kňaz, básnik a spisovateľ obdobia baroka, bol počas svojho života viackrát vystavený tlaku násilnej konverzie zo strany jezuitov, v roku 1663 bol ...zajatý Tatármi a Turkami a v čase prenasledovania evanjelických kňazov v Uhorsku bol nútený opustiť krajinu. Prežité utrpenia stvárnil v troch svojich latinsky nazvaných dielach: v epicko-reflexívnej básni v slovakizovanej češtine Sors Pilarikiana (1666) a v prózach písaných po nemecky Currus Jehovae mirabilis (1678) a Turcico-Tartarica crudelitas (1684). Tieto autobiografické príbehy sú vzácnymi príkladmi ranonovovekých autobiografických ego-dokumentov v Uhorskom kráľovstve. Formou aj obsahom nasledovali protestantskú kazateľskú prax 17. storočia, konkrétne rétorické a homiletické postupy vytvárania textov kázňovej literatúry. Invenčné, dispozičné a elokučné postupy luteránskej homiletiky a exegézy, ako ich formovali protestantskí teológovia Philipp Melanchthon (1497 – 1560) a Andreas Gerhard Hyperius (1511 – 1564), sa stali pre kazateľa Š. Pilárika prvkami pojmového, systematizujúceho, interpretačného a výrazového súboru, ktoré použil aj vo svojich literárnej tvorbe.
The speech Philip Melanchthon gave on 29 August 1518 at the University of Wittenberg to initiate his professorship is an impressive piece of humanist idealism. Already its title, De corrigendis ...adolescentiae studiis (On the reform of the studies for the young) reveals his earnest ambitions in introducing reform. Not incidentally, thus, the speech received a lot of attention immediately after its delivery and enjoyed a remarkable popularity even decades after. The speech marks, however, not only an interesting object of study in terms of its content but also in terms of its generic form. Usually labelled as a declamation, this study will revaluate this generic attribution, for the first time, by arguing that the declamation as an academic genre was only introduced into the German academic landscape after Melanchthon's debut in Wittenberg and that De corrigendis adolescentiae studiis does not convincingly fit the standards of declamatory speech in many other respects. It will be shown that the category more apt for talking about Melanchthon's speech is that of the inaugural oration – a genre yet highly underappreciated in modern research on early modern academic oratory.
The old book collection of the University Library of Cluj -Napoca contains items of mixed origins: The library of the Transylvanian Museum Association, the book collection of the university, the ...library of the Reformed College of Orăștie (Szászváros) etc. The goal of this paper is to present a segment of this diverse collection: We have selected fifteen protestant theologians, so-called "protestant reformers," who were active during the 16th century: Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Georg Major, Johann Brenz, David Chyträus, John Calvin, Thédore de Béze, Pietro Martire Vermigli, Heinrich Bullinger, Rudolf Gwalther, Ludwig Lavater, Johannes Oekolampad, Wolfgang Musculus, Benedictus Aretius and Girolamo Zanchi. I have examined a total of 97 prints from this theologians. Nearly half of these volumes were in the Carpathian Basin before 1600. Among the owners of that time, there is a similar number of Transylvanian Saxons and Hungarians from the Partium and Transylvania, the former in slightly larger proportions. Throughout the 17th century, these were the most important groups of owners as well, but now the group of the Transylvanian Reformed Hungarians is the largest.
The purpose of the collective volume "Der Philosoph Melanchthon" edited by Gunter Frank and Felix Mundt is to move the famous Reformer Philipp Melanchthon in the focus of research qua philosopher. ...The philosophical aspects of Melanchthon's work and thought have been almost entirely passed over by scholars of philosophy and intellectual history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is commonly accepted among Reformation scholars that the theologian Melanchthon can only be properly understood in his influential role as Lutheran Reformer when set against his philological and philosophical educational background. Nevertheless, the unprecedented approach that regards Melanchthon primarily as an important and independent character of the history of philosophy leads, as this volume endorses, to partially new and surprising insights into the philosophical premises of his humanistic and theological achievements. Therefore, the authors that contributed to this groundbreaking volume try to illustrate the numerous fields of interest that make up Melanchthon's extensive work, by tackling the relevance of ethics and philosophy for the Wittenberg Reformer and addressing topics such as anthropology, philosophy of law and free-will debates, all taken up and dealt with in various parts of his oeuvre.
The Magdeburg Centuries (1559–74) constituted the first attempt at a comprehensive Lutheran church history. Written as a collaborative project and starting its account in the Apostolic age, the ...Centuries aimed also to describe the theological changes of their own century, although the printed version extended only to the thirteenth century. In its development, the project was closely connected to the so‐called Chancery of God, a propaganda office of strict Lutheran theologians in Magdeburg which worked against the emperor, the Catholic Church and confessional opponents in Wittenberg. Written during a time of political threats, the work was driven by apocalyptic thinking and a certain scepticism about authorities. The search for historical testimonies of religious truth, the critical methods of a humanist education, the deconstruction of myths, and the writing for specific confessional goals intermingled and formed the compilation of excerpts from historical sources. The authors of the Magdeburg Centuries used these different techniques according to their needs.
This article argues that humanist training was all‐encompassing, not just for Philip Melanchthon but also for Martin Luther. By reexamining the relationship between the two reformers in this area, ...the article shows how their substantial, overarching agreements, especially in matters of pedagogy, led to a single‐minded reform of Wittenberg's curriculum. Finally, it argues that their revolutionary approach to seminary training also addresses its collapse in our own day.
