HEINRICH

BULLINGER (1504-1575)  , Swiss reformer, son of Dean Heinrich Bullinger by his wife Anna (Wiederkehr), was born at Bremgarten, Aargau, on the 18th of July 1504 . He studied at Emmerich and Cologne, where the teaching of Peter Lombard led him, through Augustine and Chrysostom, to first-hand study of the Bible . Next the writings of Luther and Melanchthon appealed to him . Appointed teacher (1522) in the cloister school of Cappel, he lectured on Melanchthon's Loci Communes (1521) . He heard Zwingli at Zurich in 1527, and next year accompanied him to the disputation at Berne . He was made pastor of Bremgarten in 1529, and married Anna Adlischweiler, a nun, by whom he had eleven children . After the battle of Cappel (Irth of October 1531), in which Zwingli fell, he left Bremgarten . On the 9th of December 1531 he was chosen to succeed Zwingli as chief pastor of Zurich . A strong writer and thinker, his spirit was essentially unifying and sympathetic, in an age when these qualities won little sympathy . His controversies on the Lord's Supper with Luther, and his correspondence with Lelio Sozini (see SoelNus), exhibit, in different connexions, his admirable mixture of dignity and tenderness . With Calvin he concluded (1549) the Consensus Tigurinus on the Lord's Supper . The (second) Helvetic Confession (1566) adopted in Switzerland, Hungary, Bohemia and elsewhere, was his work .

The volumes of the Zurich Letters, published by the

Parker Society, testify to his influence on the English reformation in later stages . Many of his sermons were translated into English (reprinted, 4 vols., 1849) . His works, mainly expository and polemical, have not been collected . He died at Zurich on the 17th of September 1575 . See Carl Pestalozzi, Leben (1858); Raget Christoffel, H . Bullinger (1875); Justus Heer, in Hauck's Realencyklopadie (1897) . (A .