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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.
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 ...
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 T ü bingen, his philological erudition in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew was prodigious.
Learn about the life and work of Johannes Oekolampad, one of the first Reformers who brought the Protestant Reformation to Basel and Southern Germany. Find out his views on the Eucharist, his collaboration with Erasmus and Luther, and his influence on the Reform Movement.
Learn about Johannes Oecolampadius, a leading Hebrew scholar and evangelical pastor in Basel, who influenced the Reformed stream of the Reformation. Discover his views on worship, covenant, law and gospel, and his role in the Swiss Reformation.
HERMENEUTICS OF JOHANNES OECOLAMPADIUS Vern S. Poythress The commentary on Isaiah (1525) by Johannes Oecolampadius (1482– 1531), Reformer in Basel, participant in the Marburg colloquy, shows fascinating hermeneutical affinities to twentieth-century developments in Vosian biblical theology and in typological interpretation. In particular,
