Ludwig Lavater
Encyclopedia
Ludwig Lavater was a Swiss Reformed theologian working in the circle of his father-in-law, Heinrich Bullinger
. He served as Archdeacon at the Grossmünster
in Zurich and briefly Antistes
of the Zurich church as the successor of Rudolf Gwalther
.
Lavater was a prolific author, composing homilies, commentaries, a survey of the liturgical practices of the Zurich church, a history of the Lord's Supper controversy, as well as biographies of Bullinger and Konrad Pellikan. His work on ghosts (De spectris ...) was one of the most frequently printed demonological works of the early modern period, going into at least nineteen early modern editions in German, Latin, French, English and Italian.
Heinrich Bullinger
Heinrich Bullinger was a Swiss reformer, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Zurich church and pastor at Grossmünster...
. He served as Archdeacon at the Grossmünster
Grossmünster
The Grossmünster is a Romanesque-style church in Zurich, Switzerland. It is one of the three major churches in the city . The core of the present building near the banks of the Limmat River was constructed on the site of a Carolingian church, which was, according to legend, originally commissioned...
in Zurich and briefly Antistes
Antistes
Antistes was from the 16th to the 19th century the title of the head of the church in the Reformed Churches in Switzerland...
of the Zurich church as the successor of Rudolf Gwalther
Rudolf Gwalther
Rudolf Gwalther was a Reformed Protestant pastor at who succeeded Heinrich Bullinger as Antistes of the Zurich church.- Life :Gwalther was born the son of a carpenter, who died when he was young. Heinrich Bullinger assumed responsibility for Gwalther's upbringing...
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Lavater was a prolific author, composing homilies, commentaries, a survey of the liturgical practices of the Zurich church, a history of the Lord's Supper controversy, as well as biographies of Bullinger and Konrad Pellikan. His work on ghosts (De spectris ...) was one of the most frequently printed demonological works of the early modern period, going into at least nineteen early modern editions in German, Latin, French, English and Italian.
Works
- De ritibus et institutis ecclesiae Tigurinae. 1559 (Modern edition: Die Gebräuche und Einrichtungen der Zürcher Kirche. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 1987. ISBN 3-290-11590-9
- Historia de origine et progressu controversiae Sacramentariae de Coena Domini, ab anno nativitatis Christi MDXXIIII. usque ad annum MDLXIII. Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1563.
- spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus.. Leiden, 1569.
- Von Gespänsten ..., kurtzer und einfaltiger bericht. Zürich, 1569 (VD 16VD 16The Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts , abbreviated VD 16, is a project to make a retrospective German national bibliography for the sixteenth century. The project was compiled during the period 1969-1999...
L 834). - Von Gespänsten, in Theatrum de Veneficis. Frankfurt, 1586.
External links
- Katrin Moeller, Lavater, Ludwig., in Lexikon zur Geschichte der Hexenverfolgung. ed. Gudrun Gersmann, Katrin Moeller and Jürgen-Michael Schmidt, in historicum.net
- http://www.digital-collections.de/index.html?c=autoren_index&l=en&ab=Lavater%2C+LudwigWorks of Ludwig Lavater in the Munich Digitization CenterMunich Digitization CenterMunich Digitization Center is an institution dedicated to digitalization, Online publication and the long-term archival preservation of the holdings of the Bavarian State Library and other cultural heritage institutions. It was founded in 1997 under the leadership of Mark Brantl...
] - http://www.prdl.org/author_view.php?a_id=387Works of Lavater at the Post-Reformation Digital LibraryPost-Reformation Digital LibraryThe Post-Reformation Digital Library represents a database of digitized books from the early modern era. The collected titles are directly linked to full-text versions of the works in question...
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