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Johannes Oecolampadius (also Œcolampadius, in German also Oekolampadius, Oekolampad; 1482 – 24 November 1531) was a German Protestant reformer in the Calvinist tradition from the Electoral Palatinate.
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Mar 29, 2024 · Johann Oecolampadius (born 1482, Weinsberg, Württemberg [Germany]—died November 23, 1531, Basel, Switzerland) was a German humanist, preacher, and patristic scholar who, as a close friend of the Swiss reformer Huldrych Zwingli, led the Reformation in Basel.
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Johannes Oecolampadius occupied an important place in the Reformation at the intersection of northern humanism, Protestant theology, and the Reformed tradition. As a young humanist, he was an expert in the biblical languages and a colleague with the most prominent German humanists of his day, including Erasmus, Johannes Reuchlin, Jakob ...
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OECOLAMPADIUS, JOHANNES Originally Husschyn, Hussgen, or Heussgen, theologian and reformer of Basel; b. Weinsberg in the Palatinate, 1482; d. Basel, Nov. 24, 1531. By 1515, when he first came to Basel after years of education in Bologna, Heidelberg, Stuttgart, and Tübingen, his philological erudition in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew was prodigious.
Johannes Oecolampadius was used of the Lord to establish some important doctrinal positions of his day. His study of the Scriptures and his reading and translation of the Church Fathers formulated for the Church the doctrine of the spiritual presence of Christ at the sacrament of the Lord’s Table.
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Musée protestant > The 16th century > Johannes Oekolampad (1482-1531) Oekolampad was one of the first Reformers. He brought the Protestant Reformation to Basel and then spread it in Southern Germany. Like Zwingli, he belonged to the Reform Movement.
Johannes Oecolampadius (pronounced ök?lämpä`d?oos or ?k'àl?mp?`d?às ) (1482–1531), a 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.
