The Reformer Bugenhagen

Johannes Bugenhagen

"Bugenhagen (or Pomeranus, as he was known using his Latinized

name) was born in 1485 in Wollin, Pomerania.

Bugenhagen devoted most of his intellectual energy to lecturing on Scripture.

He would publish a number of commentaries in subsequent years.
--His most famous, a 1524 commentary on the Psalms, grew out of his early lectures at Wittenberg and went through numerous printings.
His other commentaries included
--the minor letters of Paul (published 1525),
--Romans (1527),
--the Gospel of Matthew (1543),
--Jeremiah (1546),
--and Jonah (1550).

Two other contributions to the Protestant use of Scripture were notable.
--In 1524, Bugenhagen transposed Luther’s German New Testament into Low German—ahead of the publication of Luther’s own version—and his reading would become popular and widely printed.
--He also composed a harmony of the passion narrative drawn from the four Gospels.

On February 22, 1546,

Bugenhagen preached the funeral sermon for his longtime friend and ally in reform, Luther. 

 

Bugenhagen was the most important figure in the Protestant Reformation in Northern Germany and Scandinavia....earned him later the epithet second Apostle of the North.

He died April 20, 1558, in Wittenberg, and was buried under the altar at the Wittenberg city church where he had served for 35 years."
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His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant:
Matthew 25:21