repeatedly held the rectorate of the university. He lived long enough to experience the first overthrow of Crypto-Calvinism in the Electorate of Saxony, and Paul Crell, his son-in-law, signed for him at Torgau in May 1574 the articles which repudiated Calvinism and acknowledged the unity of Luther and Melanchthon. He died at Wittenberg in 1574. Works His significant writings include: A text edition of Justini ex Trogo Pompejo historia (Hagenau, 1526); an edition of Luther's smaller catechism in Latin and Low German (Magdeburg, 1531); Sententiae veterum poetarum (1534); Quaestiones rhetoricae (1535); Vita Patrum (Wittenberg, 1544); Psalterium Davidis juxta translationem veterem repurgatum (1547); De origine et auctoritate verbi Dei (1550); Commonefactio ad ecclesiam catholicam, orthodoxam, de fugiendis ... blasphemiis Samosatenicis (1569). He also wrote commentaries on the Pauline epistles and homilies on the pericopes. References 1502 births 1574 deaths German Lutheran theologians Philippists Clergy from Nuremberg University of Wittenberg alumni Academic staff of the University of Wittenberg 16th-century German Protestant theologians German male non-fiction writers 16th-century German male writers 16th-century Lutheran theologians