BUGENHAGEN, JOHANN, surnamed or Dr. POMM ( 1485 1558 ). A German reformer. He was born at %Vol lin, near Stettin. in Pomerania, June 24, 1485. lie studied at Oreifswald, and as early as 1504 heeame rector of the academy at Treptow ; became a priest in 1509, but did not give up his school, which greatly prospered under him. There he lived quietly, fulfilling the duties of his •)flice until 1520, when his religions views were changed by reading Luther's little book De Captiritale Bobyhmira. Bugenhagen was now seized, as it. were, by the zealous spirit of the Reformation, and to avoid the persecutions of the Old Church Party, he betook himself to Wittenberg, where he matriculated (1521), and where his talents procured for him in succession several high positions. Bugenhagen's remark able philological and exegetical powers were of great service to 'Luther in his translation of the Bible. In 1525 he opened the controversy be tween Luther and Zwingli by a treatise against the latter, to which Z•ingli ably replied. He
possessed a remarkable talent for organization, establishing churehes in Brunswick, Ilamburg,, Lubeck, and in Pomerania. In 15:37 lie was called to Denmark by Christian 111. to reform the ec clesiastical establishment of that country. He aeeomplished this so admirably that the Danes to this day consider him their own reformer. In 1542 he returned to Wittenberg, and continued his energetic efforts to extend the new theology throughout his native land. lie died there, April 20, 1558. His best work is his Interpre !alio in Librum Psalmorum (1523), but his works have not been collected. Letters of his were published by O. Vogt in Stettin, 1888; ad ditional ones in 1890; but many still exist 1111 printed. For his life, consult: C. A. T. Vogt (Elberfeld, ISI;;), with selections from his writ ings; and H. Hering (Halle, 1888).