Christoph Pezel

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Christoph Pezel (5 March 1539 – 24 February 1604) was an influential

Pezel then definitely accepted Calvinism, and the Church in Dillenburg was united to the Calvinistic body. In 1578 he became pastor at Herborn, and in 1580 was permitted by Count John to go for a few weeks to Bremen to try to reconcile the Church difficulties between the Calvinists and Lutherans. His task was difficult, however, since the Lutheran Jodocus Glanaeus refused to meet him in open debate. The civil authorities, construing this as contumacy, deposed Glanaeus, and Pezel preached in his place. He soon returned to Nassau, but in 1581 was permanently appointed the successor of Glanaeus at Bremen, where, four years later, he was made superintendent of the churches and schools. At the same time he became pastor of the Liebfrauenkirche, though he also retained his pastorate at the Ansgariikirche till 1598. He took an active part in improving and extending the work at the Bremen gymnasium, where he was professor of theology, moral philosophy, and history, being also the leader in all the theological controversies in which the Bremen church became involved. Pezel did away with Luther's Catechism, substituting for it his own Bremen catechism, which remained in force until the eighteenth century, removed images and pictures from the churches, formed a ministerium which united the clergy, and, by his Consensus ministerii Bremensis ecclesiæ of 1595, prepared the way for the complete acceptance of Calvinistic doctrine. Pezel died in Bremen, aged 64.

Works

Pezel was the editor Of many theological writings, of which the most important were the Loci theologici of his teacher,

• This article incorporates the article on Christoph Pezel by G. Kawerau from the
  Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
  , a publication now in the public domain.
• Cuno (1887), "Pezel, Christoph", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 25, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 575–577
• Harm Klueting (2001), "Pezel, Christoph", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 20, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 287–288
• Helmar Junghans, Verzeichnis der Rektoren, Prorektoren, Dekane, Professoren und Schloßkirchenprediger der Leucorea vom Sommersemester 1536 bis zum Wintersemester 1574/75. In Irene Dingel and Günther Wartenberg, Georg Major (1502-1574) - Ein Theologe der Wittenberger Reformation.
  ISBN 3-374-02332-0
• Heinz Kathe, Die Wittenberger Philosophische Fakultät 1501–1817. Böhlau, Köln 2002
  ISBN 3-412-04402-4
• Walter Friedensburg, Geschichte der Universität Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• "Entry". Zedlers Universallexikon. Vol. 27. p. 607.

External links

• Publications by or about Christoph Pezel at VD 17
• "Christoph Pezel". Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German).
• Ulrike Ludwig, Christoph Pezel. In Sächsische Biographie. 2005