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Andreas Osiander ('''Andreas Hosemann''') ( Ansbach , Bavaria , 19 December , 1498 – 17 October 1552 in Königsberg , Prussia ) was a German Lutheran Theologian . CAREER Born Andreas Hosemann in the town of Ansbach, Osiander studied in Leipzig , Altenburg and Ingolstadt before being ordained as a priest in 1520 . In the same year he began work at an Augustinian convent in Nuremberg as a Hebrew tutor. In 1522 , he was appointed to the church of St. Lorenz in Nuremberg, and at the same time publicly declared himself to be a Lutheran. During the First Diet Of Nuremberg (1522), he met Albert Of Prussia , Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights , and played an important role in converting him to Lutheranism. He also played a prominent role in the debate which led to the city of Nuremberg's adoption of the Reformation in 1525 , and in the same year Osiander married. Osiander attended the Marburg Colloquy ( 1529 ), the Diet Of Augsburg ( 1530 ) and the signing of the Schmalkalden Articles ( 1531 ). The Augsburg Interim of 1548 made it necessary for him to leave Nuremberg, settling first at Breslau , then (in 1549 , at Königsberg as professor of the newly founded Königsberg University , appointed by Albert of Prussia. Osiander lived and worked in Königsberg until his death in 1552. Osiander's son Lukas (1534-1604), and grandsons Andreas (1562-1617) and Lukas (1571-1638) also worked as theologians. His niece married the future-Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer . WORKS Osiander published a corrected edition of the and Calvinism . These beliefs were maintained after his death by Johann Funck (his son-in-law) but disappeared after 1566 . NOTES REFERENCES |
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