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Johann Horn [also Johannes Horn; Czech: Jan Roh; Latin: Johannes Cornu], was a bishop of the Böhmischen Brüder (Bohemian Brothers) one of the leaders of the brotherhood. He received his education in the schools of the Bohemian brothers and learned the craft of linen weaving. Although he had received no theological training, he was ordained priest of the brotherhood on August 15, 1518 in Leitomischlhe and became head of the Brüdergemeinde in Weißwasser. In the early 1520's he lived again in Leitomischl, where he met Michael Weisse, who had to leave because of his Lutheran spirit Wroclaw. Johann Horn also dealt with the writings of Martin Luther, whose writing on the worship of the sacrament he translated into Czech. In May 1522 and another time in 1524, together with Michael Weisse, he traveled to Wittenberg to meet Martin Luther in person.
After the death of Bishop Lukas of Prague in 1528, Johann Horn was elected on the Brüdersynode (Brother Synod) in 1529 in Brandeis to one of the four bishops (seniors), where he was assigned the seat Jungbunzlau. At the Brandeiser Synode of 1532, on which Jan Augusta was selected as one of the four bishops, Johann Horn received the judicial office. Thus he rose to the leading bishop of the brotherhood. Together with Jan Augusta he sat down for the connection to the German Reformation. In 1534, at his request, rebaptism was abolished. In 1535 he wrote together with Jan Augusta a modified Confessio, which summarizes the doctrine of the brotherhood in twenty articles. It comes in the doctrine of justification Martin Luther, who wrote the preface.
In 1544, Johann Horn and two other brothers took over the publication of the second edition of the Deutschen Gesangbuchs der Böhmischen Brüder (German Hymnal of the Bohemian Brothers), the first edition of which was published in 1531 by Michael Weiße in Jungbunzlau. The second edition was published in in Nuremberg under the title "Gesangbuch Der Brüder in Behemen vnd Merherrn, die man auß haß vnd neid Pickharden, Waldenses [et]c. nennet: Von jnen auff ein neues (sonderlich vom Sacrament des Nachtmals) gebessert, vnd etliche schöne neue Geseng hinzu gethan" (The hymn-book of the brethren in Behemen and Merherrn, whom they hate and envy Pickharden, Waldenses [et]c. Naming: From now on a new one (especially from the sacrament of the night) has been improved, and several beautiful new Geseng added). Of the 181 hymns, 149 came from the first edition. The authorship of the newly recorded 32 songs could not be determined so far. Horn may have been the author or at least the translator of many of the 32 new hymns in this volume. It is also possible that they came from Michael Thamm, who had taken over the leadership of the Brüdergemeinden Landskron and Fulnek from Michael Weisse. On the other hand, the hymnologist Martin Rößler points out that Horn considered his poetic abilities as inferior with those of Michael Weisse. Rößler is of the opinion that some of the new texts may have come from the estate of Michael Weisse who died in 1534, in whose personal style they fit seamlessly.
At the Synod of Jungbunzlau in 1546 the brotherhood returned to the doctrine of her late Bishop Lukas of Prague. Even Johann Horn is said to have regretted that he had not realized by reading German books, what a high spiritual good the brothers' literature contained. A year later he died Jungbunzlau. Jan Augusta followed him In the office of judge. |
