German translation of Henry VIII's Assertio Septem Sacramentorum contra Lutherum, and criticized Luther's New Testament. He also entered into a controversy with Zwingli. He took an active part in organizing a reformed Roman Catholic Church in Germany, and in 1527 published a German version of the New Testament as a counterblast to Luther's. He died on the 8th of November in that year and was buried at Dresden. Emser was a vigorous controversialist, and next to Eck the most eminent of the German divines who stood by the old church. But he was hardly a great scholar; the errors he detected in Luther's New Testament were for the most part legitimate variations from the Vulgate, and his own version is merely Luther's adapted to Vulgate requirements. Emser's crest was a goat's head and Luther delighted in calling him "Bock-Emser" and "Ægoceros" New International Encyclopedia Works De disputatione Lipsicensi, quantum ad Boemos obiter deflexa est, (1519) - Corpus Catholicorum, Vol. 4, Dr. Franz Xaver Thurnhofer, ed., Munster in Westfalen, 1921 - HathiTrust. A Venatione Luteriana Aegocerotis Assertio, (1519) - Corpus Catholicorum, Vol. 4. Bibliography Bagchi, David V. N. Luther's Earliest Opponents: Catholic Controversialists, 1518-1525. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991. passim. Collins, David. "Bursfelders, Humanists, and the Rhetoric of Sainthood: The Late Medieval vitae of Saint Benno." Revue Bénédictine 111 (2001): 508-556. Waldau, Nachricht von Hieronymus Emsers Leben und Schriften (Anspach, 1783) Kawerau, Hieronymus Emser (Halle, 1898) Enders, Luther und Emser (Halle, 1890–92) Akten und Briefe zur Kirchenpolitik Herzog Georgs von Sachsen (Leipzig, 1905) Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, vi. 96-98 (1877) All histories of the Reformation in Germany contain notices of Emser; see especially Friedensburg, Beiträge zum Briefwechsel der hat holischen Gelehrten Deutschlands im Reformations zeitaller. References 1477 births 1527 deaths