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