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CAPITO (or KOPFEL), WOLFGANG [FABRIC1us] (1478-1541)  , See also:German reformer, was See also:born of humble parentage at See also:Hagenau in See also:Alsace . He was educated for the medical profession, but also studied See also:law, and applied himself so earnestly to See also:theology that he received the doctorate in that See also:faculty also, and, having joined the See also:Benedictines, taught for some See also:time at See also:Freiburg . He acted for three years as pastor in See also:Bruchsal, and was then called to the See also:cathedral See also:church of See also:Basel (1515) . Here he made the acquaintance of See also:Zwingli and began to correspond with See also:Luther . In 1519 he removed to See also:Mainz at the See also:request of Albrecht, See also:arch-See also:bishop of that See also:city, who soon made him his See also:chancellor . In 1523 he settled at See also:Strassburg, where he remained till his See also:death in See also:November 1541 . He had found it increasingly difficult to -reconcile the new See also:religion with the old, and from 1524 was one of the leaders of the reformed faith in Strassburg . He took a prominent See also:part in the earlier ecclesiastical transactions of the 16th See also:century, was See also:present at the second See also:conference of See also:Zurich and at the conference of See also:Marburg, and along with See also:Martin See also:Bucer See also:drew up the Confessio Tetrapolitana . See also:Capito was always more concerned for the " unity of the spirit " than for dogmatic formularies, and from his endeavours to conciliate the Lutheran and Zwinglian parties in regard to the sacraments, he seems to have incurred the suspicions of his own See also:friends; while from his intimacy with Martin Cellarius and other divines of the Socinian school he drew on himself the See also:charge of Arianism . His See also:principal See also:works were:—Institutionum Hebraicarum libri duo; Enarrationes in Habacuc et Hoseam Prophetas; a See also:life of See also:Oecolampadius and an See also:account of the See also:synod of Berne (1532) .

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