Person or Institution #283
Ioannes POLIANDER
Ioannes Poliander (Johann Gramann, Johann Graumann) (*1487 – †1541), doctor of theology, Protestant preacher, and hymn-writer. In 1519 during the dispute between Martin Luther and Eck, he served on the Catholic side, but was impressed by Luther’s argumentation. In 1525 he accepted an invitation from Duke Albrecht von Hohenzollern to Königsberg, where he organised the new Protestant schools in Prussia. In 1531 he took part in the Colloquy of Rastenburg (HASE). Poliander’s and Dantiscus’ epitaphs for Reyneck were published by Szymon Starowolski in his Monumenta Sarmatarum but with no author’s name given (Monumenta Sarmatarum, p. 367-368; SKOLIMOWSKA 2012, p. 195); 1520-1522 Rector at the Thomasschule in Leipzig; 1522 cathedral preacher in Würzburg; before 1525 preacher in Nuremberg and in Mansfeld; ca. 1525 preacher in the Altstädt church in Königsberg (GÜNTHER 1907; ADB, Bd. 26, p. 388-389) | |||||||||
Correspondence between Dantiscus and Ioannes POLIANDER Results found: 2 preserved: 1 + lost: 1 Texts where mentioned Ioannes POLIANDER Results found: 3 IDL, 0 IDP, 0 IDT
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