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BUGENHAGEN, JOHANN (1485-1558)

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BUGENHAGEN, JOHANN (1485-1558) , surnamed POMERANIIS, See also:German See also:Protestant reformer, was See also:born at See also:Wollin near See also:Stettin on the 24th of See also:June 1485. At the university of Greifswald he gained much distinction as a humanist, and in 1504 was appointed by the See also:abbot of the Praemonstratensian monastery at Belbuck See also:rector of the See also:town school at Treptow. In 1509 he was ordained See also:priest and became a See also:vicar in the collegiate Marienkirche at Treptow; in 1517 he was appointed lecturer on the See also:Bible and See also:Church Fathers at the See also:abbey school at Belbuck. In 1520 See also:Luther's De Captivitate Babylonica converted him into a zealous supporter of the Reformer's views, to which he won over the abbot among others. In 1521 he went to See also:Wittenberg, where he formed a See also:close friendship with Luther and See also:Melanchthon, and in 1522 he married. He preached 'and lectured in the university, but his zeal and organizing skill soon spread his reforminginfluence far beyond its limits. In 1528 he arranged the church affairs of See also:Brunswick and See also:Hamburg; in 1530 those of See also:Lubeck and See also:Pomerania. In 1537 he was invited to See also:Denmark by See also:Christian III., and remained five years in that See also:country, organizing the church (though only a See also:presbyter, he consecrated the new Danish bishops) and See also:schools. He passed the See also:remainder of his See also:life at Wittenberg, braving the perils of See also:war and persecution rather than See also:desert the See also:place dear to him as the See also:home of the See also:Reformation. He died on the loth of See also:April 1558. Among his numerous See also:works is a See also:history of Pomerania, which remained unpublished till 1728. Perhaps his best See also:book is the Interpretatio in Librum Psalmorum (1523), and he is also remembered as having helped Luther in his See also:translation of the Bible.

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Halle, 1888) ; Emil Gorigk, Bugenhagen and See also:die Protestantisierung Pommerns (1895). O. See also:Vogt published a collection of Bugenhagen's See also:correspondence in 1888, and a supplement in 189o.

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