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BUCER (or BuTZER), MARTIN (1491-1551)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 713 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUCER (or BuTZER), See also:MARTIN (1491-1551)  , See also:German See also:Protestant reformer, was See also:born in 1491 at See also:Schlettstadt in See also:Alsace . In 15o6 he entered the Dominican See also:order, and was sent to study at See also:Heidelberg . There he became acquainted with the See also:works of See also:Erasmus and See also:Luther, and was See also:present at a disputation of the latter with some of the Romanist doctors . He became a convert to the reformed opinions, abandoned his order by papal See also:dispensation in 1521, and soon afterwards married a See also:nun . In 1522 he was pastor at Landstuhl in the See also:palatinate, and travelled hither and thither propagating the reformed See also:doctrine . After his ex-communication in 1523 he made his headquarters at See also:Strassburg, where he succeeded See also:Matthew Zell . See also:Henry VIII. of See also:England asked his See also:advice in connexion with the See also:divorce from See also:Catherine of See also:Aragon . On the question of the See also:sacrament of the See also:Lord's Supper, See also:Bucer's opinions were decidedly Zwinglian, but he was anxious to maintain See also:church unity with the Lutheran party, and constantly endeavoured, especially after See also:Zwingli's See also:death, to formulate a statement of belief that would unite Lutheran, See also:south German and Swiss reformers . Hence the See also:charge of See also:ambiguity and obscurity which has been laid against him . In 1548 he was sent for to See also:Augsburg to sign the agreement, called the See also:Interim, between the Catholics and Protestants . His stout opposition to this project exposed him to many difficulties, and he was glad to accept See also:Cranmer's invitation to make his See also:home in England . On his arrival in 1549 he was appointed regius See also:professor of divinity at See also:Cambridge .

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Edward VI. and the See also:protector See also:Somerset showed him much favour and he was See also:con-suited as to the revision of the See also:Book of See also:Common See also:Prayer . But on the 27th of See also:February 1551 he died, and was buried in the university church, with See also:great See also:state . In 1557, by See also:Mary's commissioners, his See also:body was dug up and burnt, and his See also:tomb demolished; it was subsequently reconstructed by order of See also:Elizabeth . Bucer is said to have written ninety-six See also:treatises, among them a See also:translation and exposition of the See also:Psalms and a See also:work De regno Christi . His name is See also:familiar in See also:English literature from the use made of his doctrines by See also:Milton in his divorce treatises . A collected edition of his writings has never been published . A See also:volume known as the Tomus Anglicanus (See also:Basel, 1577) contains those written in England . See J . W . Baum, Capita and Butzer (Strassburg, 186o) ; A . Erichson, • See also:Martin .Butzer (1891) ; and the articles in the See also:Diet . Nat .

Biog . (by A . W . See also:

Ward), and in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie (by See also:Paul Griinberg) .

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