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Johannes Oecolompadius

Johannes Oecolampadius

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Johannes Oecolampadius , 1482–1531, German Protestant reformer, associate of Huldreich Zwingli in the Reformation in Switzerland. He was in 1516 a preacher at Basel, where he worked with Erasmus on his New Testament. In 1520 he preached in Augsburg, then for a time was in a convent at Altmünster. Martin Luther's teachings won his interest, and in 1522 he acted as chaplain among reformers under Franz von Sickingen at Ebernburg and then returned to Basel to devote himself to the work of the Reformation. He agreed with the views of Zwingli on the nature of the Eucharist, defending this position against Luther in the Colloquy of Marburg, 1529, while Zwingli disputed the question with Melanchthon.

Bibliography: See biographies by J. J. Herzog (1843) and K. R. Hagenbach (1859); W. Walker, The Reformation (1900).

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Oecolompadius, Johannes (1482–1531), Reformer. In 1515 he helped J. Froben with the printing of Erasmus' Greek-Latin NT (1516) and wrote the notes at the end of it. He entered a monastery in 1520 but left it in 1522 to throw in his lot with the Reformers. On his return to Basle his influence led to the adoption by the city of Reformation principles, which were accepted by the Canton of Berne in 1528. He is thought to be the first Reformer to have advocated lay participation in Church government.
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