JOHANN See also: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
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At the university of Greifswald he gained much distinction as a humanist, and in 1504 was appointed by the See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of the Praemonstratensian monastery at Belbuck See also:rector of the See also:town school at Treptow
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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
- 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 Fathers at the See also:abbey school at Belbuck
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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
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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
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He preached 'and lectured in the university, but his zeal and organizing skill soon spread his reforminginfluence far beyond its limits
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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
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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
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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
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He died on the loth of See also:April 1558
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Among his numerous See also:works is a See also:history of Pomerania, which remained unpublished till 1728
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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
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See Life by H
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Hering (See also:Halle, 1888) ; Emil Gorigk, See also:Bugenhagen and See also:die Protestantisierung Pommerns (1895)
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See also:Vogt published a collection of Bugenhagen's See also:correspondence in 1888, and a supplement in 189o
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