. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). ^1 John Bugenhagen (Jean Bugenhage, Aleman) JOHN BUGENHAGEN was born in theyear 1485. His birthplace was in Pome-rania, a province of Prussia, on the shores ofthe Baltic, and it was owing to that circum-stance that in after-life he was styled He received his university educationat Greifswald, and, when twenty years of age, wasmade Rector of the School at Treptow, a walledtown on the river Rega. At an
. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). ^1 John Bugenhagen (Jean Bugenhage, Aleman) JOHN BUGENHAGEN was born in theyear 1485. His birthplace was in Pome-rania, a province of Prussia, on the shores ofthe Baltic, and it was owing to that circum-stance that in after-life he was styled He received his university educationat Greifswald, and, when twenty years of age, wasmade Rector of the School at Treptow, a walledtown on the river Rega. At an early period of life Bugenhagen formedacquaintance with the writings of Erasmus, andthereafter with Luthers great treatise, The BabylonianCaptivity of the Church (1520), in which the funda-mental Protestant principle is laid down that every-thing must be brought to the one test of theauthority of Gods Word. That led to a diligentstudy of the Scriptures and of other writings of the 68. JOHN BUGENHAGEN. John Bugenhagen Reformer, with the result that Bugenhagen becamea convinced and earnest Protestant. By this timehe had been appointed a preacher, one upon whoseministrations people of all ranks in Treptow bishop of the diocese became alarmed when hefound that worshippers were leaving the celebrationof mass by the priests, and were attending theservices of the Lutheran lecturer. He made thingsso uncomfortable for the evangelical minister ofTreptow that the latter found it prudent to removeto Wittenberg. There he became associated withLuther and Melanchthon, and so approved himselfto the Senate of the University and the townspeoplethat he was chosen by both to be pastor of theChurch—an office which he held for the remainingyears of his life. Bugenhagen had a special gift for organising, andhis activity in framing constitutions and equippingChurches and schools extended over a wide , in 1528 he arranged the Church affairs ofBrunswick and Bamburg ; t
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