Luther's seventeen Swabian articles, the "Christlichen Unterricht gegen die Bekanntnus M. Luthers". Wimpina was commissioned to confute the "Confessio Augustana" (Augsburg Confession), and took part in the disputation about reunion. Afterwards, he accompanied the Elector to Cologne for the election of King Ferdinand. He then retired to Baden. Works His first publication, "Ars epistolandi" (1486), and a poem in praise of the university and city of Leipzig (1488) are of little importance. In 1493 Wimpina claimed in the "Tractatus de erroribus philosophorum" that Aristotle was wrong in various propositions which disagreed with dogma. As rector he delivered several orations that show wide reading. He also wrote a series of treatises and held disputations against Luther's doctrine. His polemics are combined in the "Anacephalaeosis" (1528), one of the most complete refutations offered of Lutheranism. References Attribution The entry cites: Wimpina, Farrago miscellaneorum, ed. HOST (Cologne, 1531); MITTERMULLER, Wimpina in Katholik (1869), I, 641-81; II, 1-20, 129-65, 257-85, 385-403; NEGWER, Wimpina (Breslau, 1909) 1465 births 1531 deaths People from Buchen Academic staff of Leipzig University Rectors of Leipzig University 16th-century German Catholic theologians German male non-fiction writers 15th-century German writers 16th-century German male writers