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JOHANN BUGENHAGEN (1485-1558)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 759 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUGENHAGEN (1485-1558)  , surnamed POMERANIIS, See also:German See also:Protestant reformer, was See also:born at See also:Wollin near See also:Stettin on the 24th of See also:June 1485 . At the university of Greifswald he gained much distinction as a humanist, and in 1504 was appointed by the See also:abbot of the Praemonstratensian monastery at Belbuck See also:rector of the See also:town school at Treptow . In 1509 he was ordained See also:priest and became a See also:vicar in the collegiate Marienkirche at Treptow; in 1517 he was appointed lecturer on the See also:Bible and See also:Church Fathers at the See also:abbey school at Belbuck . In 1520 See also:Luther's De Captivitate Babylonica converted him into a zealous supporter of the Reformer's views, to which he won over the abbot among others . In 1521 he went to See also:Wittenberg, where he formed a See also:close friendship with Luther and See also:Melanchthon, and in 1522 he married . He preached 'and lectured in the university, but his zeal and organizing skill soon spread his reforminginfluence far beyond its limits . In 1528 he arranged the church affairs of See also:Brunswick and See also:Hamburg; in 1530 those of See also:Lubeck and See also:Pomerania . In 1537 he was invited to See also:Denmark by See also:Christian III., and remained five years in that See also:country, organizing the church (though only a See also:presbyter, he consecrated the new Danish bishops) and See also:schools . He passed the See also:remainder of his See also:life at Wittenberg, braving the perils of See also:war and persecution rather than See also:desert the See also:place dear to him as the See also:home of the See also:Reformation . He died on the loth of See also:April 1558 . Among his numerous See also:works is a See also:history of Pomerania, which remained unpublished till 1728 . Perhaps his best See also:book is the Interpretatio in Librum Psalmorum (1523), and he is also remembered as having helped Luther in his See also:translation of the Bible .

See Life by H . Hering (See also:

Halle, 1888) ; Emil Gorigk, See also:Bugenhagen and See also:die Protestantisierung Pommerns (1895) . O . See also:Vogt published a collection of Bugenhagen's See also:correspondence in 1888, and a supplement in 189o .

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