Augustin von Alveld
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Augustin von Alveld or Alvelt (1480 – c. 1535) was a teacher and provincial for Saxony of the Franciscan order, who was opposed to Martin Luther on the question of papal authority.
[edit] Life
He was born in Alfeld, near Hildesheim and was a teacher at Leipzig in 1520.
Adolf of Anhalt, the Bishop of Merseburg, in 1520 called on him to controvert the Lutherans heresy. On 20 January, 1521 he presided at the public theological disputation held at Weimar, between Johann Lange, Aegidius Mechler, and the Franciscans, on the merit of monastic vows and life; it called forth a satirical poem at the time. In 1523 he became Guardian of the monastery at Halle.[1]
He served as a guardian for noble minors in (1524); and was provincial for the Franciscan order in Saxony (1529-1532). He died before 1535.
[edit] Notes
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"Augustin von Alfeld". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Augustin von Alfeld". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.
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