sympathy from any side. Though he himself was Catholic, his humanist ideas raised the suspicion of many Catholics, and his polemical writings won him the hatred of the Reformers. He published under the name of Wendelstein his first piece, Musica (1507). His first theological works were De Utroque Sacerdotio (1520) and some smaller writings published in rapid succession. In During the following years he wrote tracts against Luther's principal theses on the doctrine of justification, on the freedom of the will, and on Catholic teaching in De Gratia Sacramentorum, 1522; De Baptismo parvulorum, 1523; A commentary on 154 Articles and others. Luther engaged with Cochlæus only in a single work, Adversus Armatum Virum Cocleum. In his Colloqium Cochlaei cum Luthero, Cochlaeus reported on his discussion with Luther on April 24, 1521, about issues, such as the origin of Luther's doctrine of predestination, the Eucharist, and the authority of the Bible. After writing a series of pamphlets discussing the main themes of Luther's theology, Cochlaeus became convinced that any further argumentation with Luther was futile. Accordingly, instead of convincing Luther, Cochlaeus attempted to come to an agreement with Melanchthon at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530, but without much success. His historical biography of Luther was popular and influential. It became a model and source for later polemics, and the view expounded in it that the Protestant Reformation was nothing but an incidental jealousy between the Dominican and Augustinian orders had a wide circulation. He left one of the few contemporary notices of the young Michael Servetus as well as notes on Tyndale's abortive attempt to print his New Testament at Cologne in 1525. Notes External links Johann Cochlaeus. Adversus cucullatum minotaurum wittenbergensem: De sacramentorum gratia iterum, (1523), Joseph Schweizer, ed., Munster in Westfalen, (1920), Corpus Catholicorum, vol. 3. Luther's Lives includes a translation of Cochlaeus's biography of Luther Musica. Colonie, Johannes Landen, 1507. From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress Attribution Canons of Wrocław 1479 births 1552 deaths 16th-century German Roman Catholic priests German Renaissance humanists German music theorists Clergy from Nuremberg