THOMÄ, Nikolaus

Abt 1492 - 1546  (54 years)

• Name	THOMÄ, Nikolaus  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1492	Siegelsbach, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Education	14 Apr 1510	Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany   [1]
  	Entered the University
  Education	1512	Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany   [1]
  	Baccularate of Arts
  Life Event	Between 1512 and 1515	Flinsbach, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany   [1]
  	Pastor
  Education	1515	Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany   [1]
  	Masters Degree
  Life Event	Between 1524 and 1534	Bergzabern, Sudliche Weinstrasse, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany   [1]
  	Teacher
  Life Event	Between 1534 and 1546	Bergzabern, Sudliche Weinstrasse, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany   [1]
  	Lutheran Pastor and Superintendent
  Death	15 Aug 1546	Bergzabern, Sudliche Weinstrasse, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany   [1]
  Person ID	I30984	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Children	1. THOMÄ, Johannes,   b. 25 Dec 1536, Bergzabern, Sudliche Weinstrasse, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. 9 Sep 1602, Zweibrücken, Zweibrucken, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (Age 65 years)  [natural]   2. THOMÄ, N.N.,   b. UNKNOWN, Bergzabern, Sudliche Weinstrasse, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. DECEASED, Germany  [natural]
  Family ID	F11815	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1492 - Siegelsbach, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Education - Entered the University - 14 Apr 1510 - Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Education - Baccularate of Arts - 1512 - Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Life Event - Pastor - Between 1512 and 1515 - Flinsbach, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Education - Masters Degree - 1515 - Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Life Event - Teacher - Between 1524 and 1534 - Bergzabern, Sudliche Weinstrasse, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Life Event - Lutheran Pastor and Superintendent - Between 1534 and 1546 - Bergzabern, Sudliche Weinstrasse, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Death - 15 Aug 1546 - Bergzabern, Sudliche Weinstrasse, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Nikolaus Thomae (c. 1492-c. 1546) studied at Heidelberg (BA, 1512; MA, 1520). In 1520, he became a parish priest in Flinsbach, close to his hometown of Sie- gelspach. In 1525, he was working as a pastor in Bergzabern in the Palatinate, where, along with Peter Hescher, he helped introduce the Reformation. He was a close friend of Oecolampadius in Basel and Johannes Bader in Landau. He engaged in a debate with Hans Denck, and wrote a detailed report about this encounter in a letter to Oecolampadius on 1 April 1527 (BrOek 2:51-5, Ep. 479). He spent a week in Strasbourg and discussed sixteen difficult points, especially the matter of baptism, with Capito and Bucer. He had frequent contacts with Anabaptists, with whom he associated on a friendly basis, as is attested by the many letters to his fellow countrymen, Conrad Hubert. Thoma, Nikolaus, Protestant theologian, * 1492, Siegels- bach; ¢ 1546, (Bad) Bergzabern. Thoma studied in Heidelberg from 1510 onwards and became a master of arts as parish priest of Flinsbach in 1519. From 1524 onwards he taught at the grammar school in Bergz- abern, where he was also pastor and superintendent until the end of his life. He engaged in a disputation on child baptism with the Anabaptist Hans — Denck in 1527. T. had close links with Johannes —» Bader in Landau, supported Kaspar von — Schwenckfeld and rejected -» Luther’s doc- trine of the Eucharist. His surviving correspondence contains information about his life in Bergzabern. co RGG

  
  

• Sources

  [S2049] GERMANY: RHEINLAND-PFALZ: Die evangelischen Geistlichen der Pfalz seit der Reformation by Biundo. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Die_evangelischen_Geistlichen_der_Pfalz/u4tmAAAAMAAJ?hl=en