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CASPAR [KASPAR ADLER] AQUILA (1488-1560)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 249 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASPAR [KASPAR See also:

ADLER] See also:AQUILA (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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