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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, 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 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-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 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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