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JOHANN COCHLAEUS (1479-1552)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 622 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COCHLAEUS (1479-1552)  , See also:German humanist and controversialist, whose See also:family name was Dobneck, was See also:born of poor parents in 1479 at Wendelstein (near See also:Nuremberg), whence his See also:friends gave him the punning surname See also:Cochlaeus (See also:spiral), for which he occasionally substituted Wendelstinus . Having received some See also:education at Nuremberg from the humanist Heinrich Grieninger, he entered (1504) the university of See also:Cologne . In 1507 he graduated, and published under the name of Wendel-See also:stein his first piece, In musicam exhortatorium . He See also:left Cologne (May 151o) to become schoolmaster at Nuremberg, where he brought out several school manuals . In 1515 he was at See also:Bologna, See also:hearing (with disgust) See also:Eck's famous disputation against See also:usury, and associating with See also:Ulrich von See also:Hutten and humanists . He took his See also:doctor's degree at See also:Ferrara (1517), and spent some See also:time in See also:Rome, where he was ordained See also:priest . In 1520 he became See also:dean of the Liebfrauenkirche at See also:Frankfort, where he first entered the lists as a controversialist against the party of See also:Luther, developing that See also:bitter hatred to the See also:Reformation which animated his forceful but shallow ascription of the See also:movement to the meanest motives, due to a See also:quarrel between the See also:Dominicans and See also:Augustinians . Luther would not meet him in discussion at See also:Mainz in 1521 . He was See also:present at the diets of See also:Worms, See also:Regensburg, See also:Spires and See also:Augsburg . The peasants' See also:war drove him from Frankfort; he obtained (1526) a canonry at Mainz; in 1529 he became secretary to See also:Duke See also:George of See also:Saxony, at See also:Dresden and See also:Meissen . The See also:death of his See also:patron (1539) compelled him to take See also:flight . He became See also:canon (See also:September 1539) at See also:Breslau, where he died on the loth of See also:January 1552 .

He was a prolific writer, largely of overgrown See also:

pamphlets, harsh and furious . His more serious efforts retain no permanent value . With humanist convictions, he had little of the humanist spirit . We owe to him one of the few contemporary notices of the See also:young See also:Servetus . See C . See also:Otto, Johannes Cochlaeus, der Humanist (1874) ; Haas, in I . Goschler's Dirt. encycloped. de la theol. cath . (1858); Brecher, in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (1876); T . Kolde, in A . Hauck's Realencyklopadie See also:fur Prot . Theol. u . Kirche (1898) .

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