Johannes Wolf


Johannes Wolf was a Swiss Reformed theologian.

Life

Johannes Wolf was born in Zurich in the year 1521. He became the chaplain of the Zurich hospital in 1544. He received a ministerial position of at the Fraumünster in 1551. In 1565 he became theology professor at the Carolinum in Zürich, also known as the Zurich Academy or Lectorium. He died in 1572.
Wolf was an important acolyte of Heinrich Bullinger in the 1550s and 1560s. With Bullinger and Rudolf Gwalther he intervened unsuccessfully on behalf of Thomas Erastus and the general Zwinglian conception of church-state relations in the Electorate of the Palatinate church discipline controversy of the late 1560s.
Wolf's colleague Johann Wilhelm Stucki composed a biography of him upon his death.

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