Ludwig Agricola

Ludwig Agricola , also Ludwig Bauer (* around 1508 in Kulmbach ; † after 1540 there ) was a German theologian and reformer.

Life

Agricola emerged from the Augustinian monastery in Kulmbach. In 1525 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg together with Andreas Althamer . Under Philipp Melanchthon he was particularly concerned with the Hebrew language. On Martin Luther's recommendation, Margrave Georg the Pious of Brandenburg-Ansbach installed him as a preacher in the Kulmbach monastery. During this time he worked on the “advice of the clergy of Kulmbach”.

When he was expelled from his pastor, he returned to Wittenberg and was entertained there for a year. At the request of the margrave, he then returned to Kulmbach, although the monks there were reluctant to see him again. In 1528 he signed the advice "against the Anabaptists" together with Kasper Löner and Tielemann Schnabel . In the following year he took part in the Franconian visitations. When he was accused by the Old Believers of having committed fornication, he was able to suppress these accusations as unfounded and continued his work on the introduction of a church order in Kulmbach.

Valentin Wanner, who had also been an Augustinian in Maulbronn, followed him in his ministerial office in 1532. There is no further information about his official effectiveness, but he is still mentioned as a pastor after 1540.

literature

• WLB Vollrath: (Contributions to Bavarian Church History, Volume 2, page 72)
• Th. LB Kolde: (ZKG 13, 1892/93), 321 ff. Gußmann, Wilhelm. Sources and research on the history of the Augsburg creed. 1, 2. Leipzig 1911, 334ff.
• Robert Stupperich: "Reformatorenlexikon". Max Mohn Verlag, Gütersloh 1984, ISBN 3-579-00123-X