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BRENZ, JOHANN (14991570)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 497 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRENZ, JOHANN (14991570) , Lutheran divine, eldest son of Martin Brenz, was born at Weil, Wurttemberg, on the 24th of June 1499. In 1514 he entered the university of
Heidelberg
 , where
Oecolampadius
  was one of his teachers, and where in 1518 he heard Luther discuss. Ordained priest in 1520, and appointed preacher (1522) at
Hall
  in Swabia, he gave himself to biblical exposition. He ceased to celebrate mass in 1523, and re-organized his church in 1524. Successful in resisting the peasant insurrection (1525), his fortunes were affected by the Schmalkaldic War. From
Hall
 , when taken by the imperial forces, he fled on his birthday in 1548. Protected by Duke Ulrich of Wurttemberg, he was appointed (January 1553) provost of the collegiate church of
Stuttgart
 . As organizer of the reformation in Wurttemberg he did much fruitful
work
 . A strong advocate of Lutheran
doctrine
 , and author of the Syngramma Suevicum (October 21, 1525), which set forth Luther's
doctrine
  of the Eucharist, he was free from the persecuting tendencies of the age. He is praised and quoted (as Joannes Witlingius) for his judgment against applying the death penalty to
anabaptists
  or other heretics in the De Haereticis, an sint persequendi (1554), issued by Sebastian Castellio under the pseudonym of Martinus Bellius. An incomplete edition of his works (largely expository) appeared at Tubingen, 15761590. Several of his sermons were reproduced in contemporary English versions. A volume of Anecdote Brentiana was edited by Pressel in 1868. He died on the 11th of September 1570, and was buried in his church at
Stuttgart
 ; his grave was subsequently violated. He was twice married, and his eldest son, Johann Brenz, was appointed (1562) professor of theology in Tubingen at the early age of twenty-two.
See Hartmann and J5ger, Johann Brenz (184o1842) ; Bossert, in Hauck's Realencyklop. (1897). (A. Go.*)


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