Nicolaus von Amsdorf (3 December 1483 – 14 May 1565) was a German theologian and Protestant reformer.
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Biography
He was built-in in Torgau, on the Elbe.
He was accomplished at Leipzig, and again at Wittenberg, area he was one of the aboriginal who matriculated (1502) in the afresh founded university. He anon acquired assorted bookish honours, and became assistant of canon in 1511.
Like Andreas Karlstadt, he was at aboriginal a arch backer of the earlier blazon of bookish theology, but beneath the access of Luther alone his Aristotelian positions for a canon based on the Augustinian article of grace. Throughout his activity he remained one of Luther's best bent supporters; he was with him at the Leipzig appointment (1519), and the Diet of Worms (1521); and was in the abstruse of his Wartburg seclusion. He assisted the aboriginal efforts of the Reformation at Magdeburg (1524), at Goslar (1531) and at Einbeck (1534); took an alive allotment in the debates at Schmalkalden (1537), area he dedicated the use of the commemoration by the unbelieving; and (1539) batten out acerb adjoin the bigamy of the Landgrave of Hesse.
After the afterlife of Philip of the Palatinate, abbey of Naumburg-Zeitz, he was installed there on 20 January 1542, admitting in action to the chapter, by the Prince-elector of Saxony and Luther. His position was a aching one, and he longed to get aback to Magdeburg, but was abiding by Luther to stay. After Luther's afterlife (1546) and the Battle of Muhlberg (1547) he had to crop to his rival, Julius von Pflug, and retire to the aegis of the adolescent battle of Weimar. Here he took allotment in founding Jena University (1548); against the "Augsburg Interim" (1548); superintended the advertisement of the Jena copy of Luther's works; and debated on the abandon of the will, aboriginal sin, and, added noticeably, on the Christian amount of acceptable works, in attention to which he captivated that they were not alone useless, but prejudicial. He apprenticed the break of the High Lutheran affair from Melanchthon (1557), got the Saxon dukes to argue the Frankfurt Recess (1558) and connected to action for the abstention of Lutheran doctrine.
He died at Eisenach in 1565, and was active in the abbey of St. Georg there, area his figure shows a well-knit anatomy and assured features.
He was accomplished at Leipzig, and again at Wittenberg, area he was one of the aboriginal who matriculated (1502) in the afresh founded university. He anon acquired assorted bookish honours, and became assistant of canon in 1511.
Like Andreas Karlstadt, he was at aboriginal a arch backer of the earlier blazon of bookish theology, but beneath the access of Luther alone his Aristotelian positions for a canon based on the Augustinian article of grace. Throughout his activity he remained one of Luther's best bent supporters; he was with him at the Leipzig appointment (1519), and the Diet of Worms (1521); and was in the abstruse of his Wartburg seclusion. He assisted the aboriginal efforts of the Reformation at Magdeburg (1524), at Goslar (1531) and at Einbeck (1534); took an alive allotment in the debates at Schmalkalden (1537), area he dedicated the use of the commemoration by the unbelieving; and (1539) batten out acerb adjoin the bigamy of the Landgrave of Hesse.
After the afterlife of Philip of the Palatinate, abbey of Naumburg-Zeitz, he was installed there on 20 January 1542, admitting in action to the chapter, by the Prince-elector of Saxony and Luther. His position was a aching one, and he longed to get aback to Magdeburg, but was abiding by Luther to stay. After Luther's afterlife (1546) and the Battle of Muhlberg (1547) he had to crop to his rival, Julius von Pflug, and retire to the aegis of the adolescent battle of Weimar. Here he took allotment in founding Jena University (1548); against the "Augsburg Interim" (1548); superintended the advertisement of the Jena copy of Luther's works; and debated on the abandon of the will, aboriginal sin, and, added noticeably, on the Christian amount of acceptable works, in attention to which he captivated that they were not alone useless, but prejudicial. He apprenticed the break of the High Lutheran affair from Melanchthon (1557), got the Saxon dukes to argue the Frankfurt Recess (1558) and connected to action for the abstention of Lutheran doctrine.
He died at Eisenach in 1565, and was active in the abbey of St. Georg there, area his figure shows a well-knit anatomy and assured features.
Italy
The Reformation advance to the Italian states in the 1520s, and bound burst at the alpha of the 17th century. Its development was hindered by the Inquisition and additionally accepted disdain.25 In Italy the Reformation exerted about no abiding influence, except for deepening the Roman Catholic Church, clashing the capital appulse it had on added European countries (Switzerland, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, and Transylvania amid others).citation needed Many Italians were outstanding activists of the European Reformation, mainly in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (e.g. Giorgio Biandrata, Bernardino Ochino, Giovanni Alciato, Giovanni Battista Cetis, Fausto Sozzini, Francesco Stancaro and Giovanni Valentino Gentile) who broadcast Nontrinitarianism there and were arch instigators of the movement of Polish Brethren.citation n
Assessment
He was a man of able will, of abundant bent for controversy, and ample learning, and appropriately acclimatized a absitively access on the Reformation. Many belletrist and added abbreviate productions of his pen are actual in manuscript, abnormally bristles blubbery volumes of Amsdorfiana, in the Weimar library. They are a admired antecedent for our ability of Luther. A baby sect, which adopted his assessment on acceptable works, was alleged afterwards him; but it is now of bald actual interest.
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