Martin Bucer

A German-born Protestant Reformer and theologian. Based primarily in Strasbourg, he sought doctrinal unity among various Protestant factions while mediating disputes between Lutherans and Reformed traditions. After meeting Martin Luther at the Heidelberg Disputation in 1518, he embraced reformist thought and later led the Reformation in Strasbourg. He compiled the "Tetrapolitan Confession" separately from the Augsburg Confession and contributed to the Wittenberg Concord of 1536, which aimed to unify Lutherans and the Reformed. Forced to sign the Augsburg Interim in 1548, he was expelled from Strasbourg and fled to England. Serving as a Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, he influenced the theology and liturgy of Lutherans, the Reformed, and later the Church of England.

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Year	Martin Bucer
1491	Birth of Martin Bucer (Period: November 11, 1491, Location: Sélestat (formerly Schlettstadt, present-day Alsace, France))
1506	Entry into the Dominican Order (Filippo Bruno, Age: 14 years old, Period: 1565, Location: Naples, Italy)
1518	Heidelberg Disputation (Martin Bucer, Age: 26 years old, Period: April 26, 1518, Location: Heidelberg)
1521	Release from Dominican Monastic Vows (Martin Bucer, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1521, Location: Around Worms, Rhineland region) Accompanying to the Diet of Worms (Martin Bucer, Age: 29 years old, Period: April 1521, Location: Worms)
1522	Reformation Activities in Wissembourg and Excommunication (Martin Bucer, Age: 30 years old, Period: 1522–1523, Location: Wissembourg (present-day Wissembourg)) Pastoral Activities in Landstuhl (Martin Bucer, Age: 30 years old, Period: 1522, Location: Landstuhl) Marriage (Martin Bucer, Elisabeth Silbereisen, Age: 30 years old, Period: Around summer 1522, Location: Around Landstuhl)
1523	Beginning of the Reformation in Strasbourg (Martin Bucer, Age: 31 years old, Period: 1523–1524, Location: Strasbourg) Leadership of the Strasbourg Reformation (Martin Bucer, Age: 31 years old, Period: 1523–1548, Location: Strasbourg)
1524	German Peasants' War (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1524–1525, Location: Holy Roman Empire, Various Parts of Germany)
1530	Drafting of the "Tetrapolitan Confession" (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1530, Location: Strasbourg) Unification Movement of Protestant Factions (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1530s, Location: Strasbourg, South Germany, Switzerland, etc.) Diet of Augsburg and Tetrapolitan Confession (Martin Bucer, Age: 38 years old, Period: July 9, 1530, Location: Augsburg)
1531	Deterioration of Relations with Zwingli (Martin Bucer, Age: 39 years old, Period: 1531, Location: Strasbourg, Zurich, etc.)
1536	Wittenberg Concord (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1536, Location: Wittenberg)
1541	Plague Epidemic in Strasbourg (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1541, Location: Strasbourg)
1542	Marriage (Martin Bucer, Wibrandis Rosenblatt, Age: 50 years old, Period: April 16, 1542, Location: Strasbourg)
1546	Schmalkaldic War (Age: 54 years old, Period: 1546–1547, Location: Holy Roman Empire, especially Central and Southern Germany)
1548	Augsburg Interim and Expulsion from Strasbourg (Martin Bucer, Age: 56 years old, Period: 1548, Location: Augsburg, Strasbourg)
1549	Appointment as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge (Martin Bucer, Age: 57 years old, Period: 1549, Location: Cambridge)
1550	Writing of "De Regno Christi" (Age: 58 years old, Period: Around 1550, Location: Cambridge)
1551	Death of Martin Bucer (Age: 59 years old, Period: February 28, 1551)

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Holy Roman Emperor	Maximilian von Habsburg Karl von Habsburg Ferdinand von Habsburg Rudolf von Habsburg Maria von Habsburg Maria von Spanien
German Reformation	Martin Luther Philip Melanchthon Andreas Karlstadt Thomas Müntzer Martin Bucer Johannes Oecolampadius Georg Spalatin
German Renaissance Art	Albrecht Dürer Hans Holbein Lucas Maler Lucas Sunder Albrecht Altdorfer Matthias Grünewald
Polish Science	Nicolaus Copernicus Marcin Bylica Jan Łaski Jan Kanty Broziński

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