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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.
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 ...
Johannes Husschin, or Huszgen, called Oekolampad, was born in 1482, to a wealthy bourgeois family in Weinsberg, Swabia. He studied law in Bologna and then theology in Heidelberg. In 1510 he was ordained as a priest and became a preacher in his home-town.
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.
Within a month, two of its leaders were dead: the rugged and charismatic Huldrych Zwingli, reformer of Zurich, slain on the battlefield at the age of 47; and the gentler, more scholarly Johannes Oecolampadius, leading pastor in the city of Basel, who had sickened and died at 49.
A less explored element of the development of this first published Greek New Testament is the role of the Old Testament editor, Johannes Oecolampadius (1482–1531). This study focuses on the contributions of Oecolampadius with particular attention given to the Annotations on Romans.
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.
Jun 19, 2017 · Thus, while such an attempt at a reconstructed study encounters unavoidable hermeneutical difficulties, one must confer on Jeff Fisher the merit of offering a convincing case for the essential contribution of Johannes Oecolampadius to the development of early modern Reformed Scriptural exegesis.
German Protestant reformer, born in Weinsberg (now in Württemberg but then in the Palatinate); his baptismal name was Johann Hussgen, but he later changed his name to Hausschein (‘house-torch’) ... From: Oecolampadius, Johannes in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance ».
