Victorinus Strigel (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Viktorin/Victorinus Strigel (16 or 26 December 1524 in Kaufbeuren-26 June 1569 in Heidelberg) was a Philippist Lutheran Theologian. Victorinus Strigel was born 1524 in Kaufbeuren the son of the physician Ivo Strigel. He attended the University of Freiburg in October 1542 and went to the University of Wittenberg to study philosophy and theology. There he became a follower of Philipp Melanchthon in 1544, earned a Master of Arts, and gave his own lectures. Due to the Schmalkaldic War, he fled with Melanchthon at first to Magdeburg and went to the University of Erfurt, where he also taught. From Erfurt, he was recommended to Jena, where he took part in the founding of the Gymnasium's academicum and from 20 March gave lectures on philosophy, history, and later on Melanchthon's Loci Communes.