Andreas Musculus (also Andreas Meusel; 29 November 1514 – 29 September 1581) was a German
Lutheran theologian and
Protestant reformer. The name Musculus is a
Latinized form of Meusel.
Musculus was born in
Schneeberg, "generally called only Musculus" and educated in
Leipzig and
Wittenberg. He became professor at the university of
Frankfurt an der Oder. As a theologian he was
Gnesio-Lutheran and wrote polemics against the Interim,
Andreas Osiander the Elder,
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Musculus was one of the co-authors of the
Formula of Concord. He was also one of the most remarkable defenders of
Eucharistic adoration in early Lutheranism. His main work on this subject is ''Propositiones de vera, reali et substantiali praesentia, Corporis & Sanguinis IESU Christi in Sacramento Altaris, Francofordiae ad Oderam, 1573'' (thesis IX: ''An adoratio Christi praesentis in coena sit approbanda''). He also edited prayer books with the classical hymns for the adoration of the Sacramen
E.g. his ''Precationes ex veteribus orthodoxis'' included
Lauda Sion and
Pange lingua.
[Hardt, Tom G. A. Venerabilis et adorabilis Eucharistia. En Studie i den lutherska Nattvardsläran under 1500-talet. Acta Universitatis Uppsaliensis, Studia Doctrinae Christianae Upsaliensia 9 (Uppsala 1971.) p. 249] He died in
Frankfurt an der Oder.
Works
* ''Vom Hosen Teuffel. Gedruckt zu Franckfurt an der Oder durch Johann Eichorn'',
Google Books 1555.
* ''Wider den Ehteuffel. Gedruckt zu Franckfurt an der Oder durch Johann Eichorn'',
Google Books 1556.
* ''Vom Gotslestern.''
Google Books 1556.
* ''Beider Antichrist, des Constantinopolitanischen / vnd Römischen / einstimmig vnd gleichfoermig Leer Glauben und Religion Wieder Christum den Son deß lebendigen Gottes durch D. Andream Musculum.''
Google Books 1557.
* ''Vom jüngsten Tage.'' Kolophon: ''Gedruckt zu Erffurt / durch Georgium Bawman / zum bunten Lawen / bey Sanct Paul.''
Google Books 1557.
* ''Wider den Fluchteufel. Von dem Unchristlichen, erschrecklichen und grausamen Fluchen und Gottslesterung, trewe und wolmeinede Vermanung und Warnung.''
Google Books 1561.
* ''Von des Teufels Tyranney, Macht vnd Gewalt, sonderlich in diesen letzten tagen, vnterrichtung. Gedruckt zu Erffurdt durch Georgium Bawmann bey St. Paul.'' Anno 1561
Google Books
* ''Bedencks Ende.'' Kolophon: ''Gedruckt zu Franckfurt an der Oder / durch Johan Eichorn 1572.''
Google Books
References
External links
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1514 births
1581 deaths
People from Schneeberg, Saxony
German Lutheran theologians
Lutheran Eucharistic theology
Leipzig University alumni
University of Wittenberg alumni
European University Viadrina faculty
16th-century German Protestant theologians
German male non-fiction writers
16th-century German male writers