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OSIANDER, ANDREAS (1498–1552)

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OSIANDER, ANDREAS (1498–1552) , See also:German reformer, was See also:born at Gunzenhausen, near See also:Nuremberg, on the 19th of See also:December 1498. His German name was Heiligmann, or, according to others, Hosemann. After studying at See also:Leipzig, See also:Altenburg and See also:Ingolstadt, he was ordained See also:priest in 1520 and appointed See also:Hebrew See also:tutor in the Augustinian See also:convent at Nuremberg. Two years afterwards he was appointed preacher in the St Lorenz Kirche, and about the same See also:time he publicly joined the Lutheran party, taking a prominent See also:part in the discussion which ultimately led to the See also:adoption of the See also:Reformation by the See also:city. He married in 1525. He was See also:present at the See also:Marburg See also:conference in 1529, at the See also:Augsburg See also:diet in 1530 and at the See also:signing of the Schmalkald articles in 1537, and took part in other public transactions of importance in the See also:history of the Reformation; that he had an exceptionally large number of See also:personal enemies was due to his vehemence, coarseness and arrogance in controversy. The introduction of the Augsburg See also:Interim in 1548 necessitated his departure from Nuremberg; he went first to See also:Breslau, and afterwards settled at See also:Konigsberg as See also:professor in its new university at the See also:call of See also:Duke See also:Albert of See also:Prussia. Here in 1550 he published two disputations, the one De loge et evangelio and the other De justificatione, which aroused a controversy still unclosed at his See also:death on the 17th of See also:October 1552. While he was fundamentally at one with See also:Luther in opposing both Romanism and Calvinism, his See also:mysticism led him to interpret See also:justification by faith as not an imputation but an infusion of the essential righteousness or divine nature of See also:Christ. His party was after-wards led by his son-in-See also:law Johann Funck, but disappeared after the latter's See also:execution for high See also:treason in 1566. Osiander's son Lukas (1534–1604), and grandsons Andreas (1562–1617) and Lukas (1571–1638), were well-known theologians. Osiander, besides a number of controversial writings, published a corrected edition of the See also:Vulgate, with notes, in 1522, and a See also:Harmony of the Gospels—the first See also:work of its See also:kind—in 1537.

The best-known work of his son Lukas was an See also:

Epitome of the See also:Magdeburg Centuries. Sec the See also:Life by W. Moller (See also:Elberfeld, 187o).

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