JOHANNES One of the most eminent of the coadjutors of Zwingli in the Swiss Reformation. The name tEeolampadius is a Grawized form, after the .fashion of the time. His real name is variously given as Ileussgen, Hansel'. and Huisehke; at any rate it was not Hausschein, as has been inferred from the meaning of tEeolani paint's. Ile was born in 1482 at Weinsberg, Wurttemberg. lie first studied at Heilbronn. then at Heidelberg. where lie took his ILA. and ALA. (1501), and altered his name as many scholars of the age did. His father desiring him to study law, he repaired to Bologna to hear a certain famous professor, but, the climate not agreeing with hint, he returned in six mouths to Heidel berg mud studied theology, which was his per sonal preference. After a while he returned home, but, again in pursuit of knowledge, he went to Tubingen (1312) and studied Greek at Stuttgart under Benchlin, and Hebrew under the Spanish physician Matthew Adrian, at Heidel berg. In 1516 he began preaching at Basel, where he formed the acquaintance of Erasmus, who highly appreciated his classical attainments and secured his assistance in edition of the New Testament. in ISIS he was preaching at
Augsburg. and in 1520 entered the Brigittine convent at Alttniinster. near Basel. But publications exercised so great an influence on Trim that he left the convent in 1522 and became chaplain to Franz von Siekingen, after whose death he returned to Basel in November, 1522, and, in the capacity of preacher and professor of theology. rommeneed his career as a reformer. In the controversy concerning the Sup per, he gradually adopted more and more the views of Zwingli. and at last maintained them in 1525. in a treatise, to which the Swabian min isters replied in the Syngrum nut Mirrieum. lu 1529 he disputed with Luther at 31arburg. lie died at Basel. November 24. 1531. There is no collected edition of his writings. Consult his Life by Herzog (Basel. 1843). and by Hagenbach (Elberfeld. 1859).