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Johann Cochlaeus (Cochläus) (
1489 -
January 10,
1552) was a
German humanist and controversialist.
Originally
Johann Dobneck, he was born of poor parents at Wendelstein (near
Nuremberg), from which he obtained the punning surname Cochlaeus (spiral), for which he occasionally substituted
Wendelstinus. Educated at Nuremberg from the humanist
Heinrich Grieninger, he entered the
University of Cologne in
1504. In 1507 he graduated, and published under the name of Wendelstein his first piece,
In musicam exhort atorium. He left Cologne (May 1510) to become schoolmaster at Nuremberg, where he brought out several school manuals. In
1515 he was at
Bologna, hearing (with disgust)
Eck's famous disputation on the subject of
usury, and associating with
Ulrich von Hutten and humanists.
He took his doctor's degree at
Ferrara (1517), and spent some time in
Rome, where he was ordained priest. In
1520 he became dean of the Liebfrauenkirche at
Frankfurt, where he first entered the lists as a controversialist against the party of
Martin Luther, developing that bitter hatred to the
Reformation which animated his forceful but shallow ascription of the movement to the meanest motives, due to a quarrel between the
Dominicans and
Augustinians.
Luther wouldn't meet him in discussion at
Mainz in 1521. He was present at the
Diets of
Worms (1521),
Speyer (1526 and 1529),
Augsburg (1530) and
Regensburg (1541).
The peasants' war drove him from Frankfurt; he obtained (1526) a canonry at
Mainz; in 1529 he became secretary to Duke
George of Saxony, at
Dresden and
Meissen. The death of his patron (1539) compelled him to take flight. He became canon (September 1539) at
Breslau, where he died. He was a prolific writer, largely of overgrown pamphlets, harsh and furious. His more serious efforts retain no permanent value. With humanist convictions, he'd little of the humanist spirit. We owe to him one of the few contemporary notices of the young
Michael Servetus.
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