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The First Lutheran Congregation: 1566–1585 and Beyond The beginnings of any Lutheran church matter explains the Rev. Gijsbertus van Hattem in a paper The First Lutheran delivered at the 24th European Lutheran Conference, Antwerp, Congregation: 1566–1585 Belgium. and Beyond by Gijsbertus van Hattem n September 2, 1566, almost fifty years after the monastery in the neighborhood of the church of St. start of the Reformation on 31 October 1517, the Andrew. This monastery was founded in 1513 and had first Lutheran church was officially organized strong ties with Wittenberg. Jacob Praepositius, the prior, Oin Antwerp. The European Lutheran Conference (ELC) had been a student of Luther and came back to Antwerp in was held in Antwerp in honor of this 450th anniversary. 1521. Other well-known names are those of Hendrik van The scope of this paper cannot cover every detail of Zutphen, who also studied at Wittenberg; Hendrik Voes; the 450-year history, but only Jan van Essen as well as several some important points. After Already right after the others. They openly announced an historical introduction of the publication of Martin the Reformation ideas and spoke sixteenth century, the focus will against many wrong doctrines be mainly on the Wonderyear, Luther’s 95 Theses on and in the Roman Catholic Church. 1566–67, the years until 1585, the against indulgences, his Many citizens accepted the new aftermath, and conclude with the ideas came to Antwerp to ideas. And then of course there Lutheran church in our times. his order brothers at the were the German merchants who owned a big share of the trade Lutherans in Antwerp Augustinian monastery in in Antwerp and therefore also This doesn’t mean that there the neighborhood of the had a large influence in bring- weren’t Protestants or, more spe- church of St. Andrew. ing the Reformation to the Low cifically, Lutherans, in the city of Countries. This all contributed to Antwerp during these fifty years. a fairly large community of Lutherans in the beginning of Antwerp was a thriving city and in that time, after Paris, it the 1520s, although there are no numbers to prove it.2 was the largest European metropolis north of the Alps. By the middle of the sixteenth century, the population was Persecution and First Martyrs of the Reformation around 100,000 inhabitants. Antwerp was an important The reaction of the government came without delay. trade center and through its port, merchandise from all The so-called Low Countries, or the Netherlands, were over the world was distributed, like it is nowadays as well. Belonging to the Hanze, or Hanseatic League, a trade 2 Nicolaas Christiaan Kist, “De Pauselijke Aflaat-handel, ook in organization of cities in north and northwest Europe, it deszelfs invloed op de Kerk-Hervorming in Nederland,” Archief voor provided a residence for traders of many nationalities.1 Kerkelijke Geschiedenis 1 (Leyden 1829): 204. Nicolaas Christiaan Kist, “Nederlanders, in de XVIde Eeuw, aan de Hoogeschool te Wittenberg, Already right after the publication of Martin Luther’s in de Theologie gegradueerd,” Archief voor Kerkelijke Geschiedenis 5(16) 95 Theses on and against indulgences, his ideas came (Leyden 1845): 346. “Jacobus Proost of Iperenses/Sprenger,” Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme (DeeI to Antwerp to his order brothers at the Augustinian 1978): 263–264. Paul Estié, Het vluchtige bestaan van de eerste Nederlandse Lutherse gemeente. Antwerpen 1566–1567, (Amsterdam, 1986), 7–9. Johannes Wilhelm Pont, Geschiedenis van het Lutheranisme 1 Lodovico Guicciardini, Beschijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden; in de Nederlanden tot 1618, (Haarlem, 1911), 23–24. Martin Jhering, anderssins ghenoemt Nederder-Duytschlandt (Amsterdam, 1612), Wandlungen und Aufbrüche. Der Weg der Niederländische Gemeinde 49–104. Guido Marnef, Antwerpen in de tijd van de Reformatie. von Antwerpen nach Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt/M, 2014), 208. Ondergronds protestantisme in een handelsmetropool 1550–1577 Johannes Cristoffel Schultz Jacobi, Oud en nieuw uit de geschiedenis der (Antwerpen, 1996), 21–90. Nederlandsch-Luthersche Kerk, 5 dln. (Rotterdam, 1862), 20–77. Journal of Lutheran Mission | The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod 23 part of the Holy Roman Empire of Charles V, who was gaen, vermits deselve de ketterye smaeken, op de born in Ghent (Flandres) in 1500. Antwerp was part of confiscatie ende verbeurte van hunne goederen en Brabant, as Brussels was. Charles V, as we all know, was de nog personelyk te worden gestraft; geene famose not a friend of the new ideas. In April 1521, at the Diet libellen oft rondeelen en balladen te schryven, uyt in Worms, Luther was made an outlaw, and in Charles’s te geven en voor kerkdoren en poorten te slaen en whole empire actions against the Reformation were plekken tegens degene die geene Luthersadherent- undertaken. He issued some laws against the heretics, the en syn … .4 so-called ketterplakkaten, and fostered the Inquisition. The Antwerps Archievenblad also contains lists of all It did not take much time before the consequences the persons that because of their “heretic” faith were per- were felt in Antwerp. In 1522, Prior Praepositius was secuted, imprisoned, and/or executed. This is a valuable imprisoned and recanted, but changed his mind again, and indispensable source for sixteenth century Antwerp and managed to get out of the city to become a pastor history. in Bremen until his death in 1562. The same happened These volumes show that the repression of the to Van Zutphen, the new prior and he was also able to so-called “heretics” was taken seriously. This also marked escape. Not so with Hendrik Voes and Jan van Essen. They the atmosphere for the coming years and decades when were imprisoned, refused to recant, and on July 1, 1523, many were persecuted and executed. People met secretly. were executed at the Grote Markt in Brussels, burned at Lutherans had questions about these hidden meetings the stake for their adherence to the Reformation doctrine. and asked Luther for advice. Luther disapproved such They are considered the first two meetings and suggested creating Lutheran martyrs, making this a house church for the household a date to certainly remember in By 1540, another or to emigrate to a place where it seven years from now. The mon- reformation movement was allowed to publicly profess the astery of the Augustinians was inspired by Jean Calvin Lutheran doctrine. This inspired already demolished in October many to do so.5 1522. When Luther heard about had gained strength in the the execution, he wrote a com- Low Countries and was by Other Protestants forting letter to the Christians far more militant than the By 1540, another reformation in the Low Countries and com- Lutheran Reformation. movement inspired by Jean Calvin posed a hymn, “Ein neues Lied (b. 1509, France) had gained wir heben an.”3 strength in the Low Countries and In the nineteenth century, the secretary and archivist was by far more militant than the Lutheran Reformation. of Antwerp at the time started the endeavor of publish- Luther himself actually did not engage with Calvinists ing the official documents of the city. The first volume as much as many think. He had more to do with the fol- was published in 1864 from a first series that would lowers of Ulrich Zwingli (b. 1484), the Swiss reformer. have thirty volumes, twenty of which were by him, and And then there was a third, much smaller group, the that are now known as the Antwerps Archievenblad (AA, Anabaptists, who were followers of Menno Simons (b. Antwerp Archives Bulletin). The series starts with and 1496, Friesland). They actually played a minor role in the covers mainly the sixteenth century and much important events of the years to come, but were severely persecuted.6 information can be found about the Reformation and the reaction against it. In connection to the above described 4 Antwerps Archievenblad, I (22 Feb 1522), 172. Casper Christiaan we read for example about the prohibition to read and to Gerrit Visser, Luther’s Geschriften in de Nederlanden tot 1546 (Assen, 1969). sell writings of Luther: 5 Victoria Christman, Pragmatic Toleration: The Politics of Religious Boeken gemaekt door eenen geheeten broeder Lu- Heterodoxy in Early Reformation Antwerp, 1515–1555 (Rochester, 2015), 36ff. Ferdinand Jacob Domela Nieuwenhuis, “Bijdragen tot de therus niet te lesen, verkoopen of daermede om te Geschiedenis der ‘Huijskercken’,” Godgeleerde Bijdragen 30 (Amsterdam 1855): 404–405. Estié, Nederlandse Lutherse, 14–15. E.M. Braekman, 3 Schultz Jacobi, Nederlandsch-Luthersche Kerk, 34. WA 12, 73–80, “A “Het Lutheranisme in Antwerpen,” Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis 70 New Song Here Shall Be Begun,” AE 53, 212–216. Jos E. Vercruysse, (1987): 24–25. “De Antwerpse Augustijnen en de lutherse Reformatie, 1513–1523,” 6 Estié, Nederlandse Lutherse, 36, note 61. Robert Van Roosbroeck, Trajecta 16 (2007): 203. Het Wonderjaar te Antwerpen 1566–1567. Inleiding tot de studie der 24 Journal of Lutheran Mission | The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod The Antwerp Calvinists organized themselves and had Margaret seemed to be approachable and the lower established an unofficial congregation by 1550. By then nobility seized the opportunity. They made a covenant, the Antwerp city government had developed a more con- and on April 6, 1566, they offered a petition to Margaret. descending behavior against the Protestants. Trade was They demanded that the Inquisition cease and that the more important, but not everything that the Protestants ketterplakkaten be nullified. She did not give in right desired would be possible. But it allowed a certain free- away, but desired a softer approach in combating the her- dom for the Protestants, as long they kept a low profile, etics. In reality, it was a victory for the Geuzen, as one of and so they did, holding their meetings still in secret.7 Margaret’s advisors named them after they presented their Another important aspect that needs to be mentioned petition and he tried to minimize it for her, saying: “Ce ne is that Antwerp developed itself in an important print- sont que des gueux” (French for “They are just beggars”).
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