Johannes Wolf
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Johannes Wolf was a Swiss Reformed theologian .
in 1551. In 1565 He became theology professor at the Zurich Carolinum, 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
he intervened unsuccessfully on behalf of Thomas Erastus
and the general Zwinglian conception of church-state relations in the Palatine church discipline controversy of the late 1560s.
Wolf's colleague Johann Wilhelm Stucki composed a biography of him upon his death.
Life
Johannes Wolf was born in Zurich around the year 1521. He became the chaplain of the Zurich hospital in 1544. He received a ministerial position of at the Zurich FraumünsterFraumünster
The Fraumünster abbey in Zurich was founded in 853 by Louis the German for his daughter Hildegard. He endowed the Benedictine convent with the lands of Zurich, Uri, and the Albis forest, and granted the convent immunity, placing it under his direct authority.- History :In 1045, King Henry III...
in 1551. In 1565 He became theology professor at the Zurich Carolinum, also known as the Zurich Academy or Lectorium. He died in 1572.
Wolf was an important acolyte of Heinrich Bullinger
Heinrich Bullinger
Heinrich Bullinger was a Swiss reformer, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Zurich church and pastor at Grossmünster...
in the 1550s and 1560s. With Bullinger and Rudolf Gwalther
Rudolf Gwalther
Rudolf Gwalther was a Reformed Protestant pastor at 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 assumed responsibility for Gwalther's upbringing...
he intervened unsuccessfully on behalf of Thomas Erastus
Thomas Erastus
Thomas Erastus was a Swiss physician and theologian best known for a posthumously published work in which he argued that the sins of Christians should be punished by the state, and not by the church withholding the sacraments...
and the general Zwinglian conception of church-state relations in the Palatine church discipline controversy of the late 1560s.
Wolf's colleague Johann Wilhelm Stucki composed a biography of him upon his death.
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
External links
- http://rester.us/prdl/author_view.php?a_id=95Links to Wolf's works at the Post-Reformation Digital LibraryPost-Reformation Digital LibraryThe Post-Reformation Digital Library represents a database of digitized books from the early modern era. The collected titles are directly linked to full-text versions of the works in question...
] - http://www.digital-collections.de/index.html?c=autoren_index&l=en&ab=Wolf%2C+JohannWorks of Johann Wolf at the Munich Digitization CenterMunich Digitization CenterMunich Digitization Center is an institution dedicated to digitalization, Online publication and the long-term archival preservation of the holdings of the Bavarian State Library and other cultural heritage institutions. It was founded in 1997 under the leadership of Mark Brantl...
] - http://www.e-rara.ch/search?operation=searchRetrieve&query=dc.creator%3D%28Johann+Wolf%29+and+vl.domain%3Derara+sortBy+dc.title%2Fasc&startRecord=1&maximumRecords=10&truncate=onWorks of Johann Wolf at the e-rara.chE-rara.che-rara.ch is a Swiss digital library dedicated to providing free online access to rare antique Swiss books and prints. It opened to the public in March 2010, and aims to make more than 10,000 works available by the end of 2011.-Project:...
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