Wolfgang Capito
Wolfgang Fabricius Capito(alsoKoepfel) (c. 1478– November 1541) was aGermanProtestant reformerin theCalvinisttradition.
His life and revolutionary work
[edit]Capito was born circa 1478 to a smith atHagenauinAlsace.He attended the famousLatin school in Pforzheim,[1]: 111 where his friendPhilip Melanchthonstudied.[2]
He was educated for the medical profession but also studiedlaw.He received a doctorate in theology atFreiburg.[1]: 111 Having joined theBenedictines,taught for some time at Freiburg. He acted for three years as pastor inBruchsal.In 1516 he became cathedral preacher ofBasel Minster.[1]: 111 Here he made the acquaintance ofZwingliand began to correspond withLuther.[3]He persuadedJohann Frobento publish a collection of Luther's works in 1518.[1]: 111–112
In 1519, he removed toMainzat the request of Albrecht,archbishop of that city,who soon made him his chancellor. In 1523 he settled atStrasbourg,where he remained until his death in November 1541. He had found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the new religion with the old, and from 1524 was one of the leaders of the reformed faith in Strasbourg. He took a prominent part in the earlier ecclesiastical transactions of the 16th century, was present at the second conference ofZürichand at the conference ofMarburg,and along withMartin Bucerdrew up theConfessio Tetrapolitana.[3]
Capito was always more concerned for the "unity of the spirit" than for dogmatic formularies, and from his endeavours to conciliate theLutheranandZwinglianparties in regard to the sacraments, he seems to have incurred the suspicions of his own friends; while from his intimacy withMartin Cellariusand other divines of theSocinianschool he drew on himself the charge ofArianism.[3]
In 1532, Capito marriedWibrandis Rosenblatt,the widow of Oecolampadius. After Wolfgang Capito's death, she marriedMartin Bucer.
Capito died inStrasbourg.
Works
[edit]His principal works were:
- Institutionum Hebraicarum libri duo
- Enarrationes in Habacuc et Hoseam Prophetas
- a life ofOecolampadiusand an account of the synod of Bern (1532)[3]
- a Greek version of theIliadin which he refers to himself asvolfivs cephalaevsorwolfius cephalaeus
See also
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References
[edit]- ^abcdRummel, Erika (2000).The Confessionalization of Humanism in Reformation Germany.Oxford University Press.ISBN9780195350333.Archived fromthe originalon 2015-12-08.Retrieved2015-12-01.
- ^Kittelson, James M. (1975).Wolfgang Capito: From Humanist to Reformer.Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp.11-12.ISBN90-04-04312-8.
- ^abcdOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911). "Capito, Wolfgang".Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 282.
External links
[edit]- Works by Wolfgang CapitoatPost-Reformation Digital Library
- Wolfgang Capitoat theMathematics Genealogy Project
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