Martin Luther, Widder das blind und toll verdamnis der siebenzehen Artikel, von der elenden schendlichen universitet zu Ingolstat ausgangen

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After the publication of the papal bull with the threat of excommunication "Exsurge domine" in October 1520, Martin Luther's (1483-1546) writings had been confiscated and burnt in Ingolstadt. In 1521, the university closed due to an outbreak of plague. When lecturing resumed in the spring of 1522, Lutheran teaching had already spread further in the city. On the foundation of the first Bavarian religious mandate from 5 March 1522, the university now took a more vigorous approach against supporters of the Reformation. This conduct also affected the son of a Munich citizen, Arsacius Seehofer (d. 1545), who had studied in Ingolstadt from 1518 and in Wittenberg from 1521/1522 where he heard lectures by Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560). In 1522, he returned to Ingolstadt and enrolled among the magisters in the Faculty of Arts after having sworn not to spread Lutheran teachings. Nevertheless, when he interpreted the Paulus letters in accordance with Melanchthon in his lecture, the university initiated proceedings against Seehofer in August 1523. On 7 September 1523, after an initial refusal, he revoked 17 articles which the Faculty of Theology had condemned as heretical. Seehofer was imprisoned in the Ettal monastery, but was able to flee and at first went to Wittenberg. The Seehofer case triggered a major public debate. The aristocrat Argula von Grumbach (around 1492-c.1554) publicly supported Seehofer and Martin Luther also attacked the university sharply in 1524 in the pamphlet shown here. Luther names the 17 articles with the reasons adopted in Ingolstadt for their conviction and appends his statement. Datum: 2016