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FABER (or LEFEVRE), JOHANN (1478-1541)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 112 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FABER (or LEFEVRE), JOHANN (1478-1541)  , See also:German theologian, styled from the See also:title of one of his See also:works " Malleus Haereticorum," son of one Heigerlin, a See also:smith (See also:faber), was See also:born at Leutkirch, in See also:Swabia, in 1478 . His See also:early See also:life is obscure; the tradition that he joined the See also:Dominicans is untenable . He studied See also:theology and See also:canon See also:law at See also:Tubingen and at See also:Freiburg See also:im See also:Breisgau, where he matriculated on the 26th of See also:July 1509, and graduated M.A. and See also:doctor of canon law . He was soon appointed See also:vicar of See also:Lindau and Leutkirch, and shortly afterwards canon of See also:Basel . In 1518 See also:Hugo von Landenberg, See also:bishop of See also:Constance, made him one of his vicars-See also:general, and See also:Pope See also:Leo X. appointed him papal protonotary . He was an See also:advocate of reforms, in sympathy with See also:Erasmus, and corresponded (1519–1520) with See also:Zwingli . While he defended See also:Luther against See also:Eck, he was as little inclined to adopt the position of Luther as of See also:Carlstadt . His See also:journey to See also:Rome in the autumn of 1521 had the result of estranging him from the views of the See also:Protestant leaders . He published See also:Opus adversus nova quaedam dogmata Lutheri (1522), and appeared as a disputant against Zwingli at See also:Zurich (r523) . Then followed his Malleus in haeresin Lutheranam (1524) . Among his efforts to See also:stem the See also:tide of Protestant innovation was the See also:establishment of a training-See also:house for the See also:maintenance and instruction of popular preachers, See also:drawn from the See also:lower ranks, to compete with the orators of reform . In 1526 he became See also:court preacher to the See also:emperor See also:Ferdinand, and in 1527 and 1528 was sent by him as See also:envoy to See also:Spain and See also:England .

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death by burning of Balthasar Hubmeier, the Baptist, at See also:Vienna on the loth of See also:March 1528 . In 1531 he was consecrated bishop of Vienna, and combined with this (till 1538) the See also:administration of the See also:diocese of See also:Neustadt . He died at Vienna on the 21st of May 1541 . His works were collected in three volumes, 1537, 1539 and 1541 . See C . E . Kettner, See also:Diss. de J . Fabri Vita Scriptisque (1737) ; Wagenmann and Egli in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie (1898) . (A .

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