Heinrich Heshusius (1556-97) became a leading church superintendent
and polemicist during the early age of Lutheran orthodoxy, and
played a major role in the reform and administration of several
German cities during the late Reformation. As well as offering an
introduction to Heshusius's writings and ideas, this volume
explores the wider world of late-sixteenth-century German
Lutheranism in which he lived and worked. In particular, it looks
at the important but inadequately understood network of Lutheran
clergymen in North Germany centred around universities such as
Rostock, Jena, KAnigsberg, and Helmstedt, and territories such as
Braunschweig-WolfenbA1/4ttel, in the years after the promulgation
of the Formula of Concord (1577). In 1579, Heshusius followed his
father Tilemann to the newly founded University of Helmstedt, where
Heinrich served as a professor on the philosophy faculty and
established lasting connections within the Gnesio-Lutheran party.
In the 1590s, Heshusius completed his doctoral degree in theology
and worked as a pastor and superintendent in Tonna and Hildesheim,
publishing over seventy sermons as well as a popular catechism
based on the Psalms and Luther's Small Catechism. As confessional
tensions mounted in Hildesheim, Heshusius worked as a polemicist
for the Lutheran cause, pressing for the conversion or expulsion of
local Jews. At the same time, Heshusius began to argue aggressively
for the expulsion of Jesuits, who had been increasing in number due
to the activities of the local bishop and administrator, Ernst II
of Bavaria. By discussing the connection between these two
expulsion efforts, and the practical activities Heshusius undertook
as a preacher, catechist, and administrator, this study portrays
Heshusius as a zealous protector of Lutheran traditions in the face
of confessional rivals. Understanding this zeal, and the policies,
piety, and propaganda that came as a result, is an important factor
in relating how Lutheran orthodoxy gained momentum within Germany
in the last decades of the sixteenth century. In all this book will
reveal the complex characteristics of an important (but virtually
unknown) Lutheran superintendent and theologian active during the
era of confessionalization, providing a useful resource for the
ongoing efforts of scholars hoping to understand the nature of
orthodoxy and its importance for early modern Europeans.f
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