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He was educated for the medical profession, but also studied law, and applied himself so earnestly to theology that he received the doctorate in that faculty also, and, having joined the Benedictines, taught for some time at Freiburg. He acted for three years as pastor in Bruchsal, and was then called to the cathedral church of Basel (1515). Here he made the acquaintance of Zwingli and began to correspond with Luther.
In 1519 he removed to Mainz at the request of Albrecht, archbishop of that city, who soon made him his chancellor. In 1523Events April Battle of Villalors Forces loyal to Emperor Charles V defeat the Comuneros, a league of urban bourgeois rebelling against Charles in Spain. June 6 Gustav Vasa becomes King of Sweden, establishing finally its full independence from Denmark. he settled at Strassburg, where he remained till his death in November 1541. He had found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the new religion with the old, and from 1524 was one of the leaders of the reformed faith in Strassburg. He took a prominent part in the earlier ecclesiastical transactions of the 16th century15th century 16th century 17th century more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. Events Beginning of the " Little Ice Age" a cooling period that resulted in lower crop yi, was present at the second conference of ZürichZurich IPA [ˈtsyːrɪç] (in English often Zurich which is also the standard French form of the name) is the largest city in Switzerland (population 364,558 in 2002; as agglomeration 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zurich. and at the conference of MarburgMarburg is a town in Hesse, Germany, on the Lahn river. It is the capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf county. Population 78. 117 (actual urban center 48. 923) (2002), geographical location 50° 48' 36" North, 8° 46' 15" East. Universitatsstadt Marburg Histor, and along with Martin BucerMartin Bucer (or Butzer ( 1491 1551) was a German Protestant reformer. He was born in 1491 at Schlettstadt in Alsace (today Selestat, in France). In 1506 he entered the Dominican order, and was sent to study at Heidelberg. There he became acquainted with drew up the Confessio Tetrapolitana.
Capito was always more concerned for the "unity of the spirit" than for dogmatic formularies, and from his endeavours to conciliate the Lutheran and Zwinglian parties in regard to the sacraments, he seems to have incurred the suspicions of his own friends; while from his intimacy with Martin Cellarius and other divines of the Socinian school he drew on himself the charge of ArianismThis article is about the theological doctrine of Arius. See Aryan, Aryan race for the ethnic concept. Arianism was a Christological view held by followers of Arius in the early Christian Church, claiming that Jesus Christ and God the Father were not of t.
1532 married Capito Wibrandis Rosenblatt , the widow of Oecolampadius, who after his death married Martin BucerMartin Bucer (or Butzer ( 1491 1551) was a German Protestant reformer. He was born in 1491 at Schlettstadt in Alsace (today Selestat, in France). In 1506 he entered the Dominican order, and was sent to study at Heidelberg. There he became acquainted with.
His principal works were:
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. additional info: Wolfgang Fabricius Capito published a greek version of the Iliad in which he refers to himself as "volfivs cephalaevs" or "wolfius cephalaeus"
Capito, Wolfgang Fabricius