BUGENHAGEN, JOHANN (1485-1558), known as the DOCTOR POMERANUS, German Protestant reformer, was born at Wollin near Stettin June 24, 1485. In 1509 he was ordained priest, and became a vicar in the collegiate Marienkirche at Treptow; in 1517 he was appointed lecturer on the Bible and Church Fathers at the abbey school at Belbuck. In 1521 he went to Wittenberg, where he formed a close friendship with Luther and Melanchthon, and in 1522 he married. In 1528 he arranged the church affairs of Brunswick and Hamburg; in 1530 those of Lubeck and Pomerania. In 1537 he was invited to Denmark by Christian III., and remained five years there, organizing the church and schools. He passed the remainder of his life at Wittenberg. He died on April 20, Among his numerous works is a history of Pomerania, which remained unpublished till 1728. Perhaps his best book is the Interpretatio in Librum Psalmorum (1523). He helped Luther in his translation of the Bible and himself trans lated the Bible into Low German.
See Life by H. Hering (1888) ; Emil Gorigk, Bugenhagen and die Protestantisierung Pommerns (1895) . O. Vogt published a collection of Bugenhagen's correspondence in 1888, and a supplement in 189o.