Leonhard Hutter

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Leonhard Hutter

Leonhard Hutter (also Hütter, Latinized as Hutterus; 19 January 1563 – 23 October 1616) was a German

Lutheran theologian
.

Life

He was born at

Wittenberg, where he died twenty years later.[1]

Works

Hutter was a stern champion of Lutheran orthodoxy, as set down in the confessions and embodied in his own Compendium locorum theologicorum (1610; reprinted 1863), being so faithful to his master as to win the title of "Luther redonatus."[1]

In reply to

Calvinism; his Calvinista aulico-politicus (1610) was written against the "damnable Calvinism" which was becoming prevalent in Holstein and Brandenburg. Another work, based on the Formula of Concord, was entitled Loci communes theologici.[1]

Notes

References

  • New International Encyclopedia
    (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hutter, Leonhard". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 15.