Wolfgang Musculus

Wolfgang Musculus, born Müslin, (September 10, 1497 in Duss (Dieuze), Lothringen - August 30, 1563 in Bern) was a Protestant theologian of the Reformation.

Born in the village of Duss (Moselle), in a German-speaking area (it is today French-speaking, since the 30 Years War), he foreshadows in himself in a prescient manner all his region's history. A lover of song and of knowledge, of languages, Humanism and religion, he was swept up, along with the rest of his countrymen into the tempests and tears of his age. His great skill has made him known all over Europe and the oral tradition of his songs still rings today in the temples of the Reformation.

In 1527, he left the Benedictine monastery at Lixheim (now in the area of Moselle), to serve as deacon of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg "(French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-Strasbourg)", at the time a parish of Augsburg. After 17 years of service, he left the town after the introduction of the Augsburg Interim, and came to Switzerland, where he was a professor of theology at Bern from 1549.

Notes and references

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=MJPsgwN789gC&pg=RA1-PA248&lpg=RA1-PA248&dq=%22wolfgang+musculus%22&source=web&ots=5IBW-7InG6&sig=vl4ioJAf-pK3HnEnsc_sA5jcpJQ Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith By Donald K. MacKim]
* [http://www.paedocommunion.com/articles/musculus_common_places.php The Validity of Children at the Lord's Table in the Words of an Early Reformed Theologian]