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JACOB STURM VON STURMECK (1489-1553)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1054 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JACOB See also:STURM VON STURMECK (1489-1553)  , See also:German statesman and reformer, was See also:born at See also:Strassburg, where his See also:father, See also:Martin See also:Sturm, was a See also:person of some importance, on the loth of See also:August 1489., He was educated at the See also:universities of See also:Heidelberg and See also:Freiburg, and about 151,7 he entered the service of See also:Henry, See also:provost of Strassburg (d . 1552), a member of the See also:Wittelsbach See also:family . He soon became an adherent of the reformed doctrines, and leaving the service of the provost became a member of the governing See also:body of his native See also:city in 1524 . He was responsible for the policy of Strassburg during the Peasants' See also:War; represented the city at the See also:Diet of See also:Spires in 1526; and at subsequent Diets gained fame by his ardent championship of its interests . As an See also:advocate of See also:union among theProtestants he took See also:part in the See also:conference at See also:Marburg in 1529; but when the attempts to See also:close the See also:breach between See also:Lutherans and Zwinglia.ns failed, he presented the Confessio letrapolitana, a Zwinglian document, to the See also:Augsburg Diet of 1530 . As the representative of Strassburg Sturm signed the " protest " which was presented to the Diet of Spires in 1529, being thus one of the See also:original " Protestants." He was on friendly terms with See also:Philip, See also:land-See also:grave of See also:Hesse . Owing largely to his See also:influence Strassburg joined the See also:league of See also:Schmalkalden in 1531 . The troops of Strassburg took the See also:field when the league attacked See also:Charles V. in 1546; but in See also:February 1547 the citizens were compelled to submit, when Sturm succeeded in securing very favourable terms from the See also:emperor . He was also able to obtain for his native city some modification of the See also:Interim issued from Augsburg in May 1548 . Sturm is said to have been in the pay of See also:Francis I. of See also:France, but this seems very unlikely, He founded the Bibliothek and a gymnasium in Strassburg, where he died on the 3oth of See also:October 1553• See H . See also:Baumgarten, See also:Jakob Sturm (Strassburg, 1876) ; A . Baum, Magistrat and See also:Reformation in Strassburg bis 1529 (Strassburg, 1887) ; J .

Rathgeber, Strassburg See also:

im 16 Jahrhundert (See also:Stuttgart, 1871); O . See also:Winckelmann, " Jakob Sturm," in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, Bd. See also:xxxvii . (See also:Leipzig, 1894) ; and Johannes Sturm, Consolatio ad senatum argentinensem de morte .. See also:Jacobi Sturmii (Strassburg, 1553) .

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