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COCHLAEUS, JOHANN (1479-1552)

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COCHLAEUS, JOHANN (1479-1552) , See also:German humanist and controversialist, whose See also:family name was Dobneck, was See also:born of poor parents in 1479 at Wendelstein (near See also:Nuremberg), whence his See also:friends gave him the punning surname Cochlaeus (See also:spiral), for which he occasionally substituted Wendelstinus. Having received some See also:education at Nuremberg from the humanist Heinrich Grieninger, he entered (1504) the university of See also:Cologne. In 1507 he graduated, and published under the name of Wendel-See also:stein his first piece, In musicam exhortatorium. He See also:left Cologne (May 151o) to become schoolmaster at Nuremberg, where he brought out several school manuals. In 1515 he was at See also:Bologna, See also:hearing (with disgust) See also:Eck's famous disputation against See also:usury, and associating with See also:Ulrich von See also:Hutten and humanists. He took his See also:doctor's degree at See also:Ferrara (1517), and spent some See also:time in See also:Rome, where he was ordained See also:priest. In 1520 he became See also:dean of the Liebfrauenkirche at See also:Frankfort, where he first entered the lists as a controversialist against the party of See also:Luther, developing that See also:bitter hatred to the See also:Reformation which animated his forceful but shallow ascription of the See also:movement to the meanest motives, due to a See also:quarrel between the See also:Dominicans and See also:Augustinians. Luther would not meet him in discussion at See also:Mainz in 1521. He was See also:present at the diets of See also:Worms, See also:Regensburg, See also:Spires and See also:Augsburg. The peasants' See also:war drove him from Frankfort; he obtained (1526) a canonry at Mainz; in 1529 he became secretary to See also:Duke See also:George of See also:Saxony, at See also:Dresden and See also:Meissen. The See also:death of his See also:patron (1539) compelled him to take See also:flight. He became See also:canon (See also:September 1539) at See also:Breslau, where he died on the loth of See also:January 1552.

He was a prolific writer, largely of overgrown See also:

pamphlets, harsh and furious. His more serious efforts retain no permanent value. With humanist convictions, he had little of the humanist spirit. We owe to him one of the few contemporary notices of the See also:young See also:Servetus. See C. See also:Otto, Johannes Cochlaeus, der Humanist (1874) ; Haas, in I. Goschler's Dirt. encycloped. de la theol. cath. (1858); Brecher, in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (1876); T. Kolde, in A. Hauck's Realencyklopadie See also:fur Prot. Theol. u. Kirche (1898).

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