Michael Caelius

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Michael Caelius, also Michael Coelius (born September 7, 1492 in Döbeln , † December 13, 1559 in Mansfeld ) was a German Lutheran theologian and reformer.

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Caelius was born the son of a master baker in Döbeln. He enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1509 , where he became a Baccalaureus in 1510. In 1512 he took over a teaching position in his hometown and in 1516 was rector of the Latin school. In 1518 he was ordained as pastor in Grimma and Rochlitz .

After the Leipzig disputation he studied again, this time in Wittenberg and went to Pensau in Bohemia as a pastor . When he was expelled from there, Martin Luther recommended him to his sovereign. Caelius became castle preacher in Mansfeld in 1525 and became dean there in 1542.

Just as he had stood by Luther's father Hans in 1530, he was also a court preacher to the court and witnessed Luther's death in Eisleben . There he also gave him the funeral sermon. Together with Justus Jonas the Elder , he described Luther's last hours . In 1548 he became city pastor in Mansfeld .

Caelius was considered a mild and peaceful man. Only with Georg Witzel did he clash in questions of the Lord's Supper, penance and good works in 1534, and also wrote a pamphlet “New Irthum and enthusiasm including a number of lies, so Georg Witzel preached at Mansfeld Castle for the first mass” 1534. Against the Augsburg interim and the proverbial Gnesiolutheran was immune to any deviation from Luther's teaching . Most recently he worked with Erasmus Sarcerius . Cyriacus Spangenberg published his writings with a preface.

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SURNAME Caelius, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coelius, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Theologian, reformer
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1492
PLACE OF BIRTH Chub
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1559
Place of death Mansfeld