Erasmus Sarcerius
German theologian
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- Bachelors Theology Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
- Masters Theology Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Erasmus Sarcerius was a German Protestant Gnesio-Lutheran theologian and reformer. He was the father of Lutheran philosopher Wilhelm Sarcerius. Life Sarcerius was the son of a burgher who became wealthy through metal trading in the Annaberg town mines. He is said to have gone to school in Freiberg with Friedrich Myconius and attended the University of Leipzig. After the death of his humanist teacher, Petrus Mosellanus, he moved to Wittenberg in 1524 and worked with fellow Lutheran reformers Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon. Later in his life, he worked at Protestant theology schools in Austria and Rostock. Between 1531 and 1536, he worked as the first subrector at Katharineum, a Latin humanist school in Lübeck. He was said to have been close to the rector, , who would become the later superintendent at Lübeck. By the time that he became a teacher, he had already rose to prominence through his writings on Protestantism.
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