- Ambrosius Pelargus
Ambrosius Pelargus (born at
Nidda ,Hesse , about 1493; died atTrier , 1561) was a German Dominican theologian. He was skilled in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. His polemical efforts were directed principally against theAnabaptists , theIconoclasts , and those who rejected the Mass.Pelargus was a humanist name, from the Greek "pelargon", meaning
stork ; his real name is given as Storch. [Thomas Brian Deutscher, Peter G. Bietenholz, "Contemporaries of Erasmus" (2003), p. 63.]Life
He entered the Dominican order probably at
Freiburg ,Breisgau . He attended theDiet of Worms (1540) and theCouncil of Trent in 1546, as theologian and procurator of theArchbishop of Trier . On 10 May, 1546, he addressed the assembled Fathers.When the Council was transferred to
Bologna in 1547,Emperor Charles V , incensed against Pelargus because he had favoured the transfer, induced the archbishop to recall him, but the latter chose him again as his theologian in 1561.Works
His works include:
*"Apologia sacrificii eucharistiae contra Oecolampadium" (Basle, 1528);
*"Hyperaspismus, seu apologiae propugnatio..." (Basle, 1529);
*"Opuscula", against Anabaptists and Iconoclasts (Freiburg, 1534);
*"Divina S. Joannis Chrysos. Liturgia, e Graeco Latine ab Ambrosio Pelargo versa et illustrata" (Worms, 1541);
*"Inter Pelargum et Erasmum epistolae" (Cologne, 1539).Notes
External links
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