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• Johannes Aepinus
  Johannes Aepinus
  Johannes Aepinus was a German Protestant theologian, the first Lutheran superintendent of Hamburg.-Life:He was born at Ziesar or Ziegesar, north-east of Magdeburg, in the march of Brandenburg. He was under the instruction of Johannes Bugenhagen...
  
  
• Johann Agricola Eisleben
• Ludwig Agricola
• Mikael Agricola
  Mikael Agricola
  Mikael Agricola was a clergyman who became the de facto founder of written Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden . He is often called the "father of the Finnish written language". Agricola was consecrated as the bishop of Turku in 1554, without papal approval...
  
  
• Stephan Agricola
  Stephan Agricola
  Stephan Agricola was a Lutheran church reformer. Born in Abensberg, at a young age he joined the Augustinian order. As a monk, he studied Augustine deeply. As a student, he went to the universities in Bologna and Venice, where in 1519 he became a Doctor of Theology. He began to preach on whole...
  
  
• Erasmus Alber
• Matthäus Alber
• Alexander Alesius
• Symphorian Altbießer
• Andreas Althamer
  Andreas Althamer
  Andreas Althamer was a German humanist and reformer. He was born in Brenz. He studied at the universities of Leipzig and Tübingen. After completing his studies, he became a schoolteacher in Halle , Schwäbisch Hall and Reutlingen. In 1524, he was a priest in Schwäbisch Gmünd, where he tried to...
  
  
• Menso Alting
  Menso Alting
  Menso Alting was a Dutch preacher and reformer.Menso Alting was born in Eelde and was raised in a catholic family. After visiting several schools in the Netherlands and Germany, he studied theology at Cologne. In 1564 he was named vicar to Haren. A few months later he was named pastor of Sleen...
  
  
• Johannes Amandi
• Nikolaus von Amsdorf
• Jakob Andreae
  Jakob Andreae
  Jakob Andreae was a significant German Lutheran theologian, involved in the drafting of major documents.-Life:He was born in Waiblingen, in the Duchy of Württemberg. He studied at the University of Tübingen from 1541...
  
  
• Laurentius Andreae
  Laurentius Andreae
  Laurentius Andreae was a Swedish clergyman and scholar who is acknowledged as one of his country's preeminent intellectual figures during the first half of the 16th century...
  
  
• Georg Aportanus
• Caspar Aquila
  Caspar Aquila
  Caspar Aquila , also Kaspar Aquila, Caspari Aquilae, Gaspar Aquila, birth name Johann Kaspar Adler, was a German reformer, who was born at Augsburg. Educated at Augsburg and at Ulm , in Italy , at Bern , studied theology in Leipzig and Wittenberg...
  
  
• Benedictus Aretius
  Benedictus Aretius
  Benedictus Aretius was a Swiss Protestant theologian and natural philosopher.-Life:...
  
  
• James Arminius
• Jan Augusta
• Johannes Aurifaber (Vimariensis)
• Johannes Aurifaber (Vratislaviensis)

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• Johannes Bader
• Bartholomäus Bernhardi
• Louis de Berquin
  Louis de Berquin
  Louis de Berquin was a French lawyer, civil servant, linguist and reformer in the 16th century.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Jacob Beurlin
• Christian Beyer
  Christian Beyer
  .Christian Beyer , a Saxon Chancellor and international lawyer. In documents partially different names and spellings ....
  
  
• Hartmann Beyer
• Johann Bernhard
• Théodore de Bèze
• Theodor Bibliander
• Theobald Billicanus
• Ambrosius Blarer
  Ambrosius Blarer
  Ambrosius Blarer was an influential reformer in southern Germany and north-eastern Switzerland.-Early life:...
  
  
• Andreas Bodenstein
• Hermann Bonnus
• Caspar Borner
• Martin Borrhaus
• Johannes Brenz
  Johannes Brenz
  Johann Brenz was a German theologian and the Protestant Reformer of the Duchy of Württemberg.-Early Advocacy of the Reformation:...
  
  
• Guido de Bres
  Guido de Bres
  Guido de Bres was a Walloon pastor and theologian, a student of John Calvin and Theodore Beza in Geneva. He was born in Mons, County of Hainaut, Southern Netherlands, and martyred at Valenciennes, aged 45...
  
  
• Johann Briesmann
• Gregor Brück
• Leonhard Brunner
• Martin Bucer
  Martin Bucer
  Martin Bucer was a Protestant reformer based in Strasbourg who influenced Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican doctrines and practices. Bucer was originally a member of the Dominican Order, but after meeting and being influenced by Martin Luther in 1518 he arranged for his monastic vows to be annulled...
  
  
• Georg Buchholzer
• Johannes Bugenhagen
  Johannes Bugenhagen
  Johannes Bugenhagen , also called Doctor Pomeranus by Martin Luther, introduced the Protestant Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century. Among his major accomplishments was organization of Lutheran churches in Northern Germany and Scandinavia...
  
  
• Heinrich Bullinger
  Heinrich Bullinger
  Heinrich Bullinger was a Swiss reformer, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Zurich church and pastor at Grossmünster...
  
  
• Benedikt Burgauer
• Adrian Buxschott

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• Michael Caelius
• Johannes Calvin
• Wolfgang Capito
• Andreas Cellarius (Theologe)
• Michael Cellarius
• Martin Chemnitz
  Martin Chemnitz
  Martin Chemnitz was an eminent second-generation Lutheran theologian, reformer, churchman, and confessor...
  
  
• David Chyträus
• Adolf Clarenbach
  Adolf Clarenbach
  Adolf Clarenbach , burnt at the stake in Cologne, died as one of the first Protestant martyrs of the Reformation in the Lower Rhine region in Germany.- Life :...
  
  
• John Colet
  John Colet
  John Colet was an English churchman and educational pioneer.Colet was an English scholar, Renaissance humanist, theologian, and Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Colet wanted people to see the scripture as their guide through life. Furthermore, he wanted to restore theology and rejuvenate...
  
  
• Johannes Comander
• Konrad Cordatus
• Anton Corvinus
• Thomas Cranmer
  Thomas Cranmer
  Thomas Cranmer was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He helped build a favourable case for Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon which resulted in the separation of the English Church from...
  
  
• Caspar Cruciger der Jüngere
• Caspar Cruciger der Ältere
• Abraham Culvensis
• Valentin Curtius

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• Paul Eber
  Paul Eber
  Paul Eber , German Lutheran theologian, was born at Kitzingen in Franconia, and was educated at Nuremberg and Wittenberg, where he became the close friend of Philipp Melanchthon....
  
  
• Johann Eberlin von Günzburg
  Johann Eberlin von Günzburg
  Johann Eberlin von Günzburg was a German theologian who became prominent as the author of reformist flysheets and pamphlets.-Life:...
  
  
• Johannes Sylvius Egranus
• Paul von Eitzen
• Francisco de Enzinas
  Francisco de Enzinas
  Francisco de Enzinas , also known by the humanist name Francis Dryander , was a classical scholar, translator, author, and Protestant apologist of Spanish origin.-Family and Education:Francisco de Enzinas was born in Burgos, Spain, probably on 1 November 1518...
  
  
• Matthias Erb

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• Theodor Fabricius
• Paul Fagius
  Paul Fagius
  Paul Fagius was a Renaissance scholar of Biblical Hebrew.-Life:Fagius was born at Rheinzabern in 1504. His father was a teacher and council clerk. In 1515 he went to study at the University of Heidelberg and in 1518 was present at the Heidelberg Disputation...
  
  
• Guillaume Farel
• Matthias Flacius
  Matthias Flacius
  Matthias Flacius Illyricus was a Lutheran reformer.He was born in Carpano, a part of Albona in Istria, son of Andrea Vlacich alias Francovich and Jacobea Luciani, daughter of a wealthy and powerful Albonian family...
  
  
• Johann Forster
  Johann Forster
  Johann Forster Forsterus, Förster or Forstheim Johann Forster Forsterus, Förster or Forstheim Johann Forster Forsterus, Förster or Forstheim (Augsburg (10 July 1496 - 7 December 1558 in Wittenberg) was a Lutheran theologian and professor of Hebrew.-References:...
  
  
• Martin Frecht
• Sebastian Fröschel
• Johannes Frosch

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• Philipp Gallicius
• Nicolaus Gallus
  Nicolaus Gallus
  Nicolaus Gallus , was leader of the Lutheran Reformation in Regensburg....
  
  
• Thomas Gassner
• Johannes Garcreus
• Gerard Geldenhouwer
  Gerard Geldenhouwer
  Gerardus Geldenhouwer was a Dutch historian.Geldenhouwer descended from a patrician family from Nijmegen. His father, also named Gerard, was chamberservant at the court of Arnold of Egmond and Adolf of Egmond, dukes of Guelders. He followed an education at the Latin school in Deventer, before he...
  
  
• Johannes Gigas
• Johann Glandrop
• Nikolaus Glossenus
• Kaspar Gräter
• Johannes Gramann
• Daniel Greser
• Argula von Grumbach
  Argula von Grumbach
  Argula von Grumbach was a Bavarian noblewoman who, starting in the early 1520s, became involved in the Protestant Reformation debates going on in Germany. She became the first Protestant woman writer, publishing letters and poems promoting and defending Martin Luther as well as his co-worker...
  
  
• Simon Grynaeus
  Simon Grynaeus
  Simon Grynaeus , German scholar and theologian of the Reformation, son of Jacob Gryner, a Swabian peasant, was born at Veringendorf, in Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.He adopted the name Grynaeus from the epithet of Apollo in Virgil...
  
  
• Augustin Gschmus
• Rudolf Gualther
• Caspar Güttel

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• Johann Habermann
  Johann Habermann
  Johann Habermann, also Johannes Avenarius was a German Lutheran theologian.-Life:He was born at Eger on August 10, 1516. He went over to the Lutheran Church about 1540, studied theology, and filled a number of pastorates...
  
  
• Berchtold Haller
  Berchtold Haller
  Berchtold Haller was a German protestant reformer born at Aldingen in Württemberg. He was the reformer of the city of Bern, Switzerland....
  
  
• Patrick Hamilton (theologian)
• Albert Rizaeus Hardenberg
• Nicolaus Hausmann
• Gerhard Hecker
• Kaspar Hedio
• Jacob Herbrand
• Johannes Hefenträger
• Peter Hegemon
• Christoph Hegendorf
• Jacob Hegge also Jacob Finkenblock
• Kaspar Heidenreich
• Johann Hess also Johann Heß
  Johann Heß
  Johann Heß was a German Lutheran theologian and Protestant Reformer of Breslau .Heß was born in Nuremberg. He attended the universities of Leipzig and Wittenberg, where he was taught in jurisprudence and liberal arts...
  
  
• Tilemann Heßhusen
• Heinrich Himmel
• Sebastian Hofmeister
  Sebastian Hofmeister
  Sebastian Hofmeister , known in writing as Oeconomus or Oikonomos, was a Swiss monk and religious Reformer who was prominent in early debates of the Reformation....
  
  
• Johannes Honterus
• John Hooper
  John Hooper
  John Hooper, Johan Hoper, was an English churchman, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester. A Protestant Reformer, he was killed during the Marian Persecutions.-Biography:...
  
  
• Johann Horn
• Kasper Huberius
• Konrad Hubert
• Andreas Hyperius
  Andreas Hyperius
  Andreas Gerhard Hyperius , real name Andreas Gheeraerdts, was a Protestant theologian. He was Flemish, born at Ypres.-Life:He had a humanist education, and studied at Tournai and Paris. He was resident in England from 1536 to 1540, and in and in 1542 was appointed professor of theology at...
  
  

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• Hartmann Ibach
• Christoph Irenäus
• Franz Irenicus
• Johann Isenmann also Johann Isenmenger

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• Matthias von Jagow
  Matthias von Jagow
  Matthias von Jagow was a Bishop of Brandenburg and reformer in Brandenburg.- Life and work :He was a member of the old noble von Jagow family from the Altmark. He studied theology and law and was for a while, Dean of the nunnery at Spandau...
  
  
• Justus Jonas der Ältere
• George Joye
  George Joye
  George Joye was a 16th-century Bible translator who produced the first printed translation of several books of the Old Testament into English , as well as the first English Primer .-Education:...
  
  
• Leo Jud
  Leo Jud
  Leo Jud , known to his contemporaries as Meister Leu, Swiss reformer, was born in Guémar, Alsace....
  
  
• Matthäus Judex
• Franciscus Junius (the elder)
  Franciscus Junius (the elder)
  Franciscus Junius , also known as Francis Junius, Franz Junius, and François du Jon, was a Huguenot scholar and theologian, and the father of Franciscus Junius the younger.-Life:...
  
  , also Franz Junius or François du Jon

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• Abraomas Kulvietis
  Abraomas Kulvietis
  Abraomas Kulvietis was a jurist and a professor at Königsberg Albertina University, as well as a reformer of the church....
  
  
• Leonhard Kaiser also Leonhard Käser, Leonhard Kaysser
• Kaspar Kantz
• Georg Parsimonius also Karg
• Stefan Kempe
• Johann Kessler also Johann Keßler
• Heinrich von Kettenbach
• Thomas Kirchmeyer
• Timotheus Kirchner
  Timotheus Kirchner
  Timotheus Kirchner was a Lutheran theologian, pastor, professor of Theology and superintendent in Weimar.- Life :Kirchner was the son of a teacher...
  
  
• Jacob Knade
• Johannes Knipstro
• Andreas Knöpken
• John Knox
  John Knox
  John Knox was a Scottish clergyman and a leader of the Protestant Reformation who brought reformation to the church in Scotland. He was educated at the University of St Andrews or possibly the University of Glasgow and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1536...
  
  
• Franz Kolb (Theologe)
• Adam Krafft 1493-1558
• Nikolaus Krage
• Gottschalk Kruse
• Johannes Kymaeus

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• Johann Lachmann
• Franz Lambert von Avignon
• Johann Lange (Theologe) thüringischer Reformator
• Johannes Langer
• Johannes á Lasco
• Hugh Latimer
  Hugh Latimer
  Hugh Latimer was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, Bishop of Worcester before the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. In 1555, under Queen Mary, he was burnt at the stake, becoming one of the three Oxford Martyrs of Anglicanism.-Life:Latimer was born into a...
  
  
• Anton Lauterbach
• Johannes Lening
• Johannes Lingarius also Johannes Bender
• Konrad Limmer
• Wenzeslaus Linck
• Kaspar Löner
• Johannes Lonicer
• Johann Lüdecke also Johann Ludecus
• Martin Luther
  Martin Luther
  Martin Luther was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517...
  
  
• Johannes Lycaula

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• Martynas Mažvydas
  Martynas Mažvydas
  Martynas Mažvydas Martynas Mažvydas Martynas Mažvydas (1510 near Žemaičių Naumiestis (now in Šilutė district municipality) - May 21, 1563 in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) was the author and the editor of the first printed book in the Lithuanian language....
  
  
• Georg Major
  Georg Major
  George Major was a Lutheran theologian of the Protestant Reformation. He was born in Nuremberg and died at Wittenberg.-Life:...
  
  
• Johann Mantel
• Johannes Marbacher
• Johannes Matthesius
• Hermann Marsow
• Nikolaus Medler
• Kapar Megander
• Philipp Melanchthon
  Philipp Melanchthon
  Philipp Melanchthon , born Philipp Schwartzerdt, was a German reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems...
  
  
• Dionysius Melander
• Justus Menius
  Justus Menius
  Justus Menius was a German Lutheran theologian, whose name is Latinized from Jost or Just Menig.-Early life:...
  
  
• Angelus Merula also Engel von Merlen
• Michael Meurer also Michael Haenlein, Michael a Muris Galliculus
• Sebastian Meyer
• Joachim Mörlin
  Joachim Mörlin
  Joachim Mörlin was a Lutheran theologian and an important figure in the controversies following Martin Luther's death.-Early life:...
  
  
• Maximilian Mörlin
• Ambrosius Moibanus
  Ambrosius Moibanus
  Ambrosius Moibanus was a German Lutheran theologian and reformer, and first Lutheran pastor at St Elisabeth's church in Breslau .He was active in Silesia. He was an opponent of the Anabaptists, and pressed for their persecution....
  
   also Andreas Moyben
• Jacob Montanus
• Antonius Musa
  Antonius Musa
  Antonius Musa was a botanist and the Roman emperor Augustus's physician. In the year 23 BC, when Augustus was seriously ill, Musa cured the illness with cold compresses and became immediately famous....
  
   also Andreas West, Andreas Wilsch
• Simon Musaeus also Simon Meusel
• Andreas Musculus
  Andreas Musculus
  Andreas Musculus was a German Lutheran theologian. The name Musculus is a Latinized form of Meusel.Musculus was born in Schneeberg, Saxony, "generally called only Musculus" and educated in Leipzig and Wittenberg. He became professor in university of Frankfurt an der Oder...
  
   also Andreas Meusel
• Wolfgang Musculus
  Wolfgang Musculus
  Wolfgang Musculus, born "Müslin" or "Mauslein", was a Protestant theologian of the Reformation.-Life:...
  
  
• Friedrich Myconius
  Friedrich Myconius
  Friedrich Myconius was a German Lutheran theologian. He was a colleague of Martin Luther....
  
  
• Oswald Myconius
  Oswald Myconius
  Oswald Myconius was a follower of Huldrych Zwingli.He was born at Lucerne, Switzerland. His family name was Geisshüsler, and his father was a miller; hence he was also called Molitoris...
  
  

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• Bernardino Ochino
  Bernardino Ochino
  Bernardino Ochino was an Italian Reformer.-Biography:Bernardino Ochino was born in Siena son of the barber Domenico Ochino, and at the age of 7 or 8 around 1504 was entrusted to the Minorite order of Franciscan Friars, then from 1510 he studied medicine at Perugia.-1534, transfer to the...
  
  
• Johannes Oekolampad aka Oecolampadius
• Georg Oemler also Aemelius
• Konrad Öttinger
• Kaspar Olevianus
  Kaspar Olevianus
  Kaspar Olevianus was a significant German Reformed theologian during the Protestant Reformation and along with Zacharius Ursinus was said to be co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism...
  
  
• Gerd Omeken
• Andreas Osiander
  Andreas Osiander
  Andreas Osiander was a German Lutheran theologian.- Career :Born at Gunzenhausen in Franconia, Osiander studied at the University of Ingolstadt before being ordained as a priest in 1520. In the same year he began work at an Augustinian convent in Nuremberg as a Hebrew tutor. In 1522, he was...
  
  
• Jacob Other also Jacob Otter

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• Peder Palladius
• Johannes Pappus
• Matthew Parker
  Matthew Parker
  Matthew Parker was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder of Anglican theological thought....
  
  
• Konrad Pelikan
• Laurentius Petri
  Laurentius Petri
  Laurentius Petri Nericius was a Swedish clergyman and the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden. He and his brother Olaus Petri are, together with the King Gustav Vasa, regarded as the main Protestant reformers of Sweden...
  
  
• Olaus Petri
  Olaus Petri
  Olof Persson , better known under the Latin form of his name, Olaus Petri , was a clergyman, writer, and a major contributor to the Protestant Reformation in Sweden...
  
  
• Johann Pfeffinger
  Johann Pfeffinger
  Johann Pfeffinger was a significant theologian and Protestant Reformer.-His life and work:...
  
  
• Paul Phrygio also Paul Sidensticker, Paul Kostentzer
• Johann Pistoris also Becker, Niddanus
• Tilemann Plettener also Tilemann Platner
• Andreas Poach
  Andreas Poach
  Andreas Poach was a German Lutheran theologian and Reformer.In 1530 he was admitted to the University of Wittenberg. In 1538, he obtained his Master's and remained until 1541 at the University of Wittenberg...
  
  
• Georg von Polentz, also Georg von Polenz
• Johann Pollius also Johann Polhen, Johann Polhenne
• Abdias Prätorius
• Stephan Prätorius
• Jacobus Probst
• Nikolaus Prugener

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• Ludwig Rabus
  Ludwig Rabus
  Ludwig Rabus was a German Lutheran theologian.-Life:He was born in Memmingen, in poor circumstances. He went to Strassburg, where he was supported by the preacher Matthäus Zell and his wife Katharina. In 1538 Rabus became a student at Tübingen University, and graduated M.A...
  
  
• Balthasar Raid also Balthasar Reith
• Stanislaus Rapagelanus
• Urbanus Rhegius
  Urbanus Rhegius
  Urbanus Henricus Rhegius or Urban Rieger was Protestant Reformer who was active both in Northern and Southern Germany in order to promote Lutheran unity in the Holy Roman Empire.- Life :...
  
  
• Stephan Riccius
• Johann Reibling
• Bartholomaeus Rieseberg
• Erasmus Ritter
• Paul vom Rode
• Patroklus Römeling
• Georg Rörer
  Georg Rörer
  Georg Rörer was a Lutheran reformer and pastor from Bavaria. He was one of the first clergymen ordained by Martin Luther himself in 1525. His office was deacon. He assisted in Luther's work of translating the Bible and served as Luther's secretary beginning in 1537...
  
  
• Bartholomäus Rosinus
• Jacob Runge
• Johann Rurer

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• Heinrich Salmuth
• Konrad Sam
• Erasmus Sarcerius
• Martin Schalling the Elder
• Martin Schalling the Younger
• Christoph Schappeler
  Christoph Schappeler
  Christoph Schappeler was a German religious figure, the preacher at St. Martin's in Memmingen during the early 16th century, during the Protestant Reformation and the German Peasants' War. He tended to side with the poor, causing the senate to regulate his sermons in 1516. However, by 1521 the...
  
  
• Georg Scharnekau
• Jacob Schenck
• Johann Schlaginhaufen also Johann Schlainhauffen, Johann Turbicida
• Johann Schnabel
• Tilemann Schnabel
• Simon Schneeweiß
• Erhard Schnepf
  Erhard Schnepf
  Erhard Schnepf was a German Lutheran Theologian, Pastor, and Reformer.- Life :...
  
  
• Johannes Schradin
• Gervasius Schuler
• Theobald Schwarz also Theobald Nigri, Theobald Niger
• Kaspar Schwenckfeld
• Abraham Scultetus
  Abraham Scultetus
  Abraham Scultetus was a German professor of theology, and the court preacher for the Elector of the Palatinate Frederick V.- Early life :...
  
  
• Jan Seklycian
• Nikolaus Selnecker
  Nikolaus Selnecker
  Nikolaus Selnecker was a German musician and theologian. He is now known mainly as a hymn writer. He is also known as one of the principal authors of the Formula of Concord along with Jakob Andreä and Martin Chemnitz.At a young age he was an organist in Nuremberg...
  
  
• Dominicus Sleupner also Dominicus Schleupner
• Joachim Slüter also Jochim Slyter, Jochim Dutzo
• Georg Spalatin
• Cyriakus Spangenberg
• Johann Spangenberg
• Paul Speratus
  Paul Speratus
  Paul Speratus was a Catholic priest who became a Protestant preacher and song-writer. In 1523, he helped Martin Luther to create the First Lutheran hymnal, published in 1524 and called Achtliederbuch.-Early life:...
  
  
• Johann Stammel
• Michael Stiefel
• Johann Stössel
  Johann Stössel
  Johann Stössel was a Lutheran Theologian and Reformer.-Life:...
  
  
• Johannes Spreter
• Johann Stoltz
• Jacob Stratner
• Jacob Strauß
• Victorinus Strigel
  Victorinus Strigel
  Viktorin/Victorinus Strigel was a Philippist Lutheran Theologian.-Life:...
  
  
• Bartholomaeus Suawe
• Simon Sulzer
  Simon Sulzer
  Simon Sulzer was a Reformed theologian, Reformer, and Antistes of the Basel church.- Life :Sulzer was born in Schattenhalb, the child of a priest. He was educated in Bern and Lucerne. The sudden death of his father, the provost of Interlaken, forced him to turn to manual labor to support himself...
  
  
• Johann Sutel

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• Hans Tausen
  Hans Tausen
  Hans Tausen , the protagonist of the Danish Reformation, was born at Birkende on Funen in 1494 and died in Ribe in 1561.- Life :...
  
  
• Sylvester Tegetmeier
• Johann Timann
• Pierre Toussaint
  Pierre Toussaint
  The Venerable Pierre Toussaint was an immigrant to the United States and a successful hairdresser in New York City during the Federal Period. Due to his devout and exemplary life, the Roman Catholic Church has been investigating his life for possible canonization.-Life:Pierre Toussaint was born as...
  
  
• Primož Trubar
  Primož Trubar
  Primož Trubar or Primož Truber was a Slovene Protestant reformer, the founder and the first superintendent of the Protestant Church of the Slovene Lands, a consolidator of the Slovene language and the author of the first Slovene-language printed book...
  
  
• Hermann Tulich
• William Tyndale
  William Tyndale
  William Tyndale was an English scholar and translator who became a leading figure in Protestant reformism towards the end of his life. He was influenced by the work of Desiderius Erasmus, who made the Greek New Testament available in Europe, and by Martin Luther...
  
  

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• Juan de Valdés
  Juan de Valdés
  Juan de Valdés was a Spanish religious writer.He was the younger of twin sons of Fernando de Valdés, hereditary regidor of Cuenca in Castile, where Valdés was born. He has been confused with his twin brother Alfonso...
  
  
• Thomas Venatorius
• Georg von Venediger
• Pier Paolo Vergerio
  Pier Paolo Vergerio
  Pier Paolo Vergerio was an Italian religious reformer.-Life:He was born at Capodistria , then part of the Venetian Republic and studied jurisprudence in Padua, where he delivered lectures in 1522. He also practiced law in Verona, Padua, and Venice...
  
  
• Pietro Martire Vermigli
  Pietro Martire Vermigli
  Peter Martyr Vermigli , sometimes simply Peter Martyr, was an Italian theologian of the Reformation period.-Life:...
  
   (Peter Martyr)
• Pierre Viret
  Pierre Viret
  Pierre Viret was a Swiss Reformed theologian.- Early life :Pierre Viret was born to a devout middle class Roman Catholic family in Orbe, a small town now in Switzerland. He was a close friend of John Calvin....
  
  

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• Burkhard Waldis
• Joachim von Watt
• Adam Weiß
• Michael Weiße
• Hieronymus Weller
• Johann Westermann (Theologe)
• Joachim Westphal
  Joachim Westphal (of Hamburg)
  Joachim Westphal was a German "Gnesio-Lutheran" theologian....
  
  
• Johann Wigand
• Heinrich Winkel also Heinrich Winckel
• George Wishart
  George Wishart
  George Wishart was a Scottish religious reformer and Protestant martyr.He belonged to a younger branch of the Wisharts of Pitarrow near Montrose. He may have graduated M.A., probably at King's College, Aberdeen, and was certainly a student at the University of Leuven, from which he graduated in 1531...
  
  
• Bonifatius Wolfart
• John Wycliffe
  John Wycliffe
  John Wycliffe was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. His followers were known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached...
  
  
• Thomas Wyttenbach

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• Girolamo Zanchi
• Katharina Zell
  Katharina Zell
  Katharina Zell née Schütz was a German Protestant writer during the Reformation. She was wife of Matthias Zell/Matthäus Zell, one of the first priests to marry, and be excommunicated for marrying. After his death she continued his work...
  
   also Katharina Schütz
• Matthäus Zell
  Matthäus Zell
  Matthäus Zell was a Lutheran theologian and reformer based in Strasbourg. His widow was Katharina Zell.- Life :...
  
  
• Heinrich von Zütphen
• Johannes Zwick
  Johannes Zwick
  Johannes Zwick was a German Reformer and hymnwriter. He briefly hosted the Anabaptist Johannes Bünderlin in 1529. He died of the plague.-References:...
  
  
• Gabriel Zwilling
  Gabriel Zwilling
  Gabriel Zwilling was a German Lutheran and Protestant Reformer born near Annaberg, Electorate of Saxony. He was educated in Wittenberg and Erfurt...
  
  
• Huldrych Zwingli
  Huldrych Zwingli
  Ulrich Zwingli was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. Born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system, he attended the University of Vienna and the University of Basel, a scholarly centre of humanism...