See also:AURIFABER (the latinized See also:form of See also:Goldschmidt)
, a surname
See also:borne by three prominent men of the See also:Reformation See also:period in See also:Germany
.
1
.
ANDREAS (1514–1559) was a physician of some repute, but through his See also:influence with See also:Albert of See also:Brandenburg, last See also:grand-
See also:master of the See also:Teutonic See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, and first See also:Protestant See also:duke of See also:Prussia, became an outstanding figure in the controversy
associated with Andreas See also:Osiander (q.v.) whose daughter he had married
.
2
.
JOANNES (Vratislaviensis ; 1517–1568), the younger See also:brother of Andreas, was See also:born at See also:Breslau on the 3oth of See also:January 1517, and educated at See also:Wittenberg, where he formed a See also:close and lasting friendship with See also:Melanchthon
.
After graduating in 1538 he spent twelve years as docent at the university, and having then received his doctorate of divinity, was appointed See also:professor of divinity and pastor of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Nicholas at See also:Rostock
.
He distinguished himself by his conciliatory disposition, earned the See also:special confidence of Duke See also:John Albert of See also:Mecklenburg, and took a leading See also:part in 1552 in See also:drawing up the constitution of the Mecklenburg church
.
He also settled some religious disputes in the See also:town of See also:Lubeck
.
In 1553 Duke Albert of Prussia, anxious to heal the See also:differences in the Prussian church caused by the discussion of Osiander's doctrines, invited him to See also:Konigsberg, and in the following See also:year appointed him professor of divinity and See also:president of the See also:Samland See also:diocese
.
Joannes, however, found it impossible to conciliate all parties, and in 1565 returned to Breslau, where, in 1567, he became pastor in the church of
St See also:Elizabeth and inspector of the Lutheran churches and See also:schools
.
He died on the 19th of See also:October 1568
.
3
.
JOANNES (Vinariensis; 1519–1575), was born in the See also:county of Mansfeldt in 1519
.
He studied at Wittenberg where he heard the lectures of See also:Luther, and afterwards became See also:tutor
to See also:Count Mansfeldt
.
In the See also:war of 1544–45 he accompanied the See also:army as See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-preacher, and then lived with Luther as his famulus
or private secretary, being See also:present at his See also:death in 1546
.
In the following year he spent six months in See also:prison with John See also:Frederick, elector of See also:Saxony, who had been captured by the See also:emperor, See also:Charles V
.
He held for some years the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:court-preacher
at See also:Weimar, but owing to theological disputes was compelled to resign this office in 1561
.
In 1566 he was appointed to the
Lutheran church at See also:Erfurt, and there remained till his death
926
in See also:November 1575
.
Besides taking a See also:share in the first collected or See also:Jena edition of Luther's See also:works (1556), See also:Aurifaber sought out and published at See also:Eisleben in 1564–1565 several writings not included in that edition
.
He also published Luther's Letters (1556, 1565), and Table Talk (1566)
.
This popular See also:work, which has given him most of his fame, is unfortunately but a second or third See also:hand compilation
.
See G
.
Kawerau's See also:art. in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyk, See also:fur prot
.
Theologie, and the literature there cited
.
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