Hieronymus Dungersheim or Dungersheym von Ochsenfart(1465,

Ochsenfurt Ochsenfurt () is a town in the district of Würzburg, in Bavaria, Germany. Ochsenfurt is located on the left bank of the River Main and has around 11,000 inhabitants. This makes it the largest town in Würzburg district. Name Like Oxford, the t ...

– 1540) was a German Catholic theologian and controversialist (skeptic). A professor of the

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, he was an early opponent of the

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s there. Catholic Encyclopedia

Among the many scholars of the town who energetically opposed the new movement by word and writing, particular mention must be made of the Dominican

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, Professor Dungersheim of the university, the Franciscan

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, and later

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Works

*''De modo discendi et docendi ad populum sacra seu de modo prædicandi'' (1513) *''Schriften Gegen Luther Theorismata Duodecim Contra Lutherum, Articuli Sive Libelli Triginta'', modern edition by Theobald Freudenberger (1987) /

References

* Theobald Freudenberger (1988), ''Hieronymus Dungersheim von Ochsenfurt an Main, 1465-1540, Theologieprofessor in Leipzig: Leben und Schriften''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dungersheim, Hieronymus 1465 births 1540 deaths People from Ochsenfurt 16th-century German Catholic theologians German male non-fiction writers 16th-century German male writers