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BRENZ, JOHANN (1499–1570)

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BRENZ, JOHANN (1499–1570) , Lutheran divine, eldest son of See also:Martin Brenz, was See also:born at Weil, See also:Wurttemberg, on the 24th of See also:June 1499. In 1514 he entered the university of See also:Heidelberg, where See also:Oecolampadius was one of his teachers, and where in 1518 he heard See also:Luther discuss. Ordained See also:priest in 1520, and appointed preacher (1522) at See also:Hall in See also:Swabia, he gave himself to biblical exposition. He ceased to celebrate See also:mass in 1523, and re-organized his See also:church in 1524. Successful in resisting the See also:peasant insurrection (1525), his fortunes were affected by the Schmalkaldic See also:War. From Hall, when taken by the imperial forces, he fled on his birthday in 1548. Protected by See also:Duke See also:Ulrich of Wurttemberg, he was appointed (See also:January 1553) See also:provost of the collegiate church of See also:Stuttgart. As organizer of the See also:reformation in Wurttemberg he did much fruitful See also:work. A strong See also:advocate of Lutheran See also:doctrine, and author of the Syngramma Suevicum (See also:October 21, 1525), which set forth Luther's doctrine of the See also:Eucharist, he was See also:free from the persecuting tendencies of the See also:age. He is praised and quoted (as Joannes Witlingius) for his See also:judgment against applying the See also:death See also:penalty to See also:anabaptists or other heretics in the De Haereticis, an sint persequendi (1554), issued by See also:Sebastian Castellio under the See also:pseudonym of Martinus Bellius. An incomplete edition of his See also:works (largely expository) appeared at See also:Tubingen, 1576–1590. Several of his sermons were reproduced in contemporary See also:English versions.

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volume of See also:Anecdote Brentiana was edited by Pressel in 1868. He died on the 11th of See also:September 1570, and was buried in his church at Stuttgart; his See also:grave was subsequently violated. He was twice married, and his eldest son, Johann Brenz, was appointed (1562) See also:professor of See also:theology in Tubingen at the See also:early age of twenty-two. See See also:Hartmann and J5ger, Johann Brenz (184o–1842) ; Bossert, in Hauck's Realencyklop. (1897). (A.

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