BUGENHAGEN, JOHANN, often called POME RANDS, from the name of his native district, was born at Wollen, 24th June 1485, and died at Wit tenberg, 2Ist Mar. 1558. He studied at Greifs. wald, and became rector of the school of Treptow. Whilst there he became acquainted with the writ ings of Luther, and soon after he joined the ranks of the. reformers. Having settled at Wittenberg as pastor and professor of theology there, he be came one of the most zealous and able of Luther's coadjutors in the work of Reformation. He gave valuable aid especially in organizing the educa tional machinery of the Protestant Church in Ger many, and such was the sense entertained of the value of his services that he was offered by Chris tian II. of Denmark the rich bishopric of Schles wig, which he declined. He aided Luther also in his translation of the Bible, and he gave a version of that work in Low German, for the benefit of those by whom that dialect was used. He wrote
an Explicatio Psalmorum, of which Luther speaks in the strongest terms of commendation, declar ing, ' csse hunt Pomeranum primum in orbe qui Psalterii interpres did mcreatur.' We have also from him Aelnotationes in Epp. ad Gal., Epics., Colors., Thess., Tim., Tit., Pkilem., et flebrecos, Svo, Argent. 1524, Bas. 1527. A work also professing to be his was published in 1531, under the title Ponzeraiii, in D. Pauli ad I Rom. hnerpretatio doctissinta multisque locis locuplclata,' but this is his only in so far as it was taken down from his prelections, and was revised by him. In the prefatory note he complains of his lectures on Job having been given to the public in the same way, but without his consent. These notes are very brief, but they contain often felici tous explanations of the meaning of the Apostle, and are always clear and to the point.—NV. L. A.