Ludwig Rabus
Ludwig Rabus (also Rab or Günzer) (10 October 1523 – 22 July 1592) was a German
Life
He was born in Memmingen, in poor circumstances. He went to Strasbourg, where he was supported by the preacher Matthäus Zell and his wife Katharina. In 1538, Rabus became a student at University of Tübingen, and graduated M.A. in 1543.
In the years following, Rabus became Zell's assistant, established a reputation as a preacher, and in 1548 became Zell's successor. The
When the Strasbourg council favoured
In Ulm, Rabus standardised teaching, held inspections, introduced liturgical books, and supported Andreae in his efforts towards the Swabian Concord. He died there.
Works
Rabus began to work on a selective Protestant martyrology in the late 1540s, as the Interim began to affect churches in his region. A Latin version appeared in 1552.[2]
The German Historien der Heyligen appeared in six volumes (completed 1557), published at Strasbourg by Samuel Emmel. It is framed as a
References
Notes
- ^ Elsie Anne McKee, Church Mother: the writings of a Protestant reformer in sixteenth-century Germany (2006), p. 179; Google Books.
- ^ Robert Kolb, For All the Saints: changing perceptions of martyrdom and sainthood in the Lutheran Reformation (1987), p. 45–6.
- ^ John N. King, Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture (2006), p. 41; Google Books.
- ^ Kolb, p. 47; Google Books.
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