Augustine of Alfeld
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Augustine of Alfeld (1480 – c. 1535) was a teacher and Minister Provincial of the Franciscan Order in Saxony, who was opposed to Martin Luther on the question of papal authority.
Life
He was born in Alfeld, near Hildesheim, and was a professor of Scripture at Leipzig in 1520.
Adolf of Anhalt, the Bishop of Merseburg, in 1520 called on him to dispute the Lutherans preachers. On 20 January 1521 he presided at the public theological disputation held at Weimar, between Johann Lange, Aegidius Mechler, and the Franciscans, on the merit of monastic vows and life; it called forth a satirical poem at the time. In 1523 he became Guardian of the friary at Halle.[1]
Augustine served as a guardian for noble minors in (1524); and was the Minister Provincial for the Franciscan order in Saxony (1529-1532). He died before 1535.
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