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Johann Wolf Joannes Wolfius (10 August 1537 in
Johann Wolf Joannes Wolfius (10 August 1537 in Bergzabern
Bad Bergzabern () is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district, on the German Wine Route in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated near the border with France, on the south-eastern edge of the Palatinate forest, approximately ...
– 23 May 1600 in Mundelsheim
Mundelsheim is a municipality in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. It is located in the Ludwigsburg district, about 30 km north of Stuttgart and 20 km south of Heilbronn, on the Neckar river. It belongs to the Stuttgart Met ...
) was a German jurist
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...
who corresponded with Lelio Sozzini
Lelio Francesco Maria Sozzini, or simply Lelio Sozzini (Latin: ''Laelius Socinus''; 29 January 1525 – 4 May 1562), was an Italian Renaissance humanist and theologian and, alongside his nephew Fausto Sozzini, founder of the Non-trinitarian Chri ...
on the sacrament 1555. He was also a diplomat, translator, historian and theologian.
He married in 1572 Maria Magdalena Achtsynit, she died in 1581. The next year he married Christina von Bühel, she died in 1591. In 1592 he married the widow Barbara Schaiblin.
From these wives he had five daughters and two sons.
Works
*''Lectiones memorabiles et reconditae'' 1600.full title ''Lectionum memorabilium et reconditarum centenarii XVI Habet hic lector doctorum ecclesiae, vatum, politicorum, philosophorum, historicum, aliorumq esapientum & eruditorum pia, gravia, mira, arcana, & stupenda; iucunda simul & utilia, dicta, scripta, atq efacta; Vaticinia item vota, omnia, mysteria, hieroglyphica, miracula, visiones, antiquitates, monumenta, testimonia, exempla virtutu vitiorum, abusuum; typos insuper, picturas, atq eimagines: Sed et ipsius coeli ac naturae horrenda signa, ostenta, monstra, atq eportenta: His interiuncti sunt quoq eomnes sacri prophaniq eordines'' *''Artis historicae penus : octodecim scriptorum tam veterum quam recentiorum monumentis.'' Basileae : Ex officina Petri Pernae, 1579.References
Further reading
* Sabine Schmolinsky, "Im Angesicht der Endzeit? Positionen in den Lectiones memorabiles des Johannes Wolff (1600)," in Hg. Brandes, Wolfram / Schmieder, Felicitas, ''Endzeiten. Eschatologie in den monotheistischen Weltreligionen'' (Berlin, de Gruyter, 2008) (Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies / Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. / Studies in the Culture and History of the First Millennium C.E., 16), 369–418. Jurists from Rhineland-Palatinate 1537 births 1600 deaths {{Germany-law-bio-stub