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AQUILA, CASPAR [KASPAR See also:ADLER] (1488-1560) , See also:German reformer, was See also:born at See also:Augsburg on the 7th of See also:August 1488, educated there and at See also:Ulm (1502), in See also:Italy (he met See also:Erasmus in See also:Rome), at See also:Bern (1508), See also:Leipzig (1510) and See also:Wittenberg (1513)• According to his son, he entered• the See also:ministry in August 1514, at Bern. He was for some See also:time a military See also:chaplain. In 1516 he became pastor of Jenga, near Augsburg. Openly proclaiming his See also:adhesion to See also:Luther's See also:doctrine, he was imprisoned for parts of the See also:aqueduct are as follows: See also:half a See also:year (1520 or 1522) at See also:Dillingen, by See also:order of the See also:bishop of Augsburg; a See also:death See also:sentence was commuted to banishment through the See also:influence of See also:Isabella, wife of See also:Christian II. of Den-See also:mark and See also:sister of See also:Charles V. Returning to Wittenberg he met Luther, acted as See also:tutor to the sons of See also:Franz von See also:Sickingen at Ebernburg, taught See also:Hebrew at Wittenberg, and aided Luther in his version of the Old Testament. The See also:dates and particulars of his career are uncertain till 1527, when he became pastor at See also:Saalfeld, and in 1528, See also:superintendent. His vehement opposition to the Augsburg See also:Interim (1548) led him to take temporary shelter at See also:Rudolstadt with See also:Catherine, countess of Schwarzburg. In 1550 he was appointed See also:dean of the Collegiatstift in See also:Schmalkalden. Here he had a controversy with Andreas See also:Osiander. Restored to Saalfeld, not without opposition, in 1552, he remained there, still engaged in controversy, till his death on the 12th of See also:November 156o. He was twice married, and See also:left four sons. He published numerous sermons, a few Old Testament expositions and some controversial tracts.

See G. Kawerau, in A. Hauck's Realencyklopddie (1896); See also:

Adige-'mine deutsche Biog. (1875) ; Lives by J. See also:Avenarius (1718) ; J. G. }Effinger (1731); Chr. See also:Schlegel (1737); Fr. Gensler (1816).

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