Johannes Wolf (1521–1572) was a
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theologian.
Life
Johannes Wolf was born in Zurich in the year 1521. He became the chaplain of the Zurich hospital in 1544. He received a ministerial position of at the
Fraumünster in 1551. In 1565 he became theology professor at the
''Carolinum'' in Zürich, also known as the ''Zurich Academy'' or ''Lectorium''. He died in 1572.
Wolf was an important acolyte of
Heinrich Bullinger in the 1550s and 1560s. With Bullinger and
Rudolf Gwalther
Rudolf Gwalther (1519–1586) was a Reformed pastor and Protestant reformer who succeeded Heinrich Bullinger as Antistes of the Zurich church.
Life
Gwalther was born the son of a carpenter, who died when he was young. Heinrich Bullinger assum ...
he intervened unsuccessfully on behalf of
Thomas Erastus
Thomas Erastus (original surname Lüber, Lieber, or Liebler; 7 September 152431 December 1583) was a Swiss physician and Calvinist theologian. He wrote 100 theses (later reduced to 75) in which he argued that the sins committed by Christians shou ...
and the general
Zwinglian conception of church-state relations in the
Electorate of the Palatinate
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church discipline controversy of the late 1560s.
Wolf's colleague
Johann Wilhelm Stucki composed a biography of him upon his death.
[Backus (2008). ''Life writing in Reformation Europe.'' p. 106-111]
Works
* ''Tabulae chronologicae in Nehemiam et Esdram'' (Zürich 1570)
* ''Considerationes in aliquot libros veteris testamenti''
* ''Fundamentum Lutheranae doctrinae de ubiquitate corporis Christi''
* ''Index graecorum nominum, quae ad geographiam pertinent''
* ''De conferendis bibliorum translationibus''
* ''De conficiendis succinctis commentariis in biblia''
* ''De christiana perseverantia, commentat. consolatoriae ad fratres captivos'' (Zürich 1578)
* ''In Esrae Librum prim. Commentarior. Libri III'' (Zürich 1584)
* ''In Deuteronomium Sermonum Libri IV'' (Zürich 1585)
* ''In historiam Josuae de occupatione et divisione Terrae Sanctae Liber'' (Zürich 1592)
* ''Responsio ad Andr. Dudithii quaestionem: ubi vera et catholica ecclesia invenienda sit''
* ''de ecclesia militante''
* ''de constitutione scholae Tigurinae''
* ''Gebetbuch vom Reich Messiä''
* ''Der Christen Sabbath''
* ''Petri Glaube''
* ''de petra salutis''
Further reading
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External links
Links to Wolf's worksat the
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Works of Johann Wolfat the
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References
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1521 births
1572 deaths
Swiss Protestants
Swiss Calvinist and Reformed theologians
16th-century Swiss people
16th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians
Academic staff of Carolinum, Zürich