Cyriacus Spangenberg (7 June 1528 – 10 February 1604) was a German theologian, Protestant reformer and historian, son of the reformer (1484–1550). Cyriacus was born in Nordhausen. As a student, he was a fellow tenant of

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in Wittenberg, later became a minister in Eisleben, and, in 1559, the General Dean of the Grafschaft Mansfeld. In January 1575, he lost his place at Mansfeld because in the Flacian controversy he sided with

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. Along with Flacius, he taught that through original sin some of the substantial faculties of men were also corrupted. This contradicted the doctrine of his opponents that only accidental faculties were depraved. He served as a pastor at Schlitz, Hesse from 1580 until getting expelled in 1590. After getting expelled, he went on a short retreat to Vacha before moving to

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, where his youngest son, , a poet, lived, and where he died. Among the last pupils of Luther, Spangenberg is the most prominent. He wrote about 150 works. As a historian he wrote ''Mansfeldi Chronica'', ''Saxonian Chronica'', and other publications. His ''Adelsspiegel'' is probably the most important early-modern aristocracy treatise. Also he wrote ''How Husbands Ought to Behave'' and ''What every Christian should make...Confession of Faith''.

References

* Jacobs, Henry Eyster
"Spangenberg, Cyriacus"
''Lutheran Cyclopedia''. New York: Scribner, 1899. p. 450.
Cyriacus Spangenberg
article from '' Christian Cyclopedia''
Cyriac Family History Project Cyriacus Spangenberg page
via archive.today. Accessed 19 April 2024.

uni-mannheim.de. Accessed 19 April 2024.

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philological.bham.ac.uk. Accessed 19 April 2024. {{DEFAULTSORT:Spangenberg, Cyriacus 1528 births 1604 deaths People from Nordhausen, Thuringia German Lutheran theologians German Lutheran hymnwriters 16th-century German Protestant theologians 16th-century German Lutheran clergy German male non-fiction writers 16th-century German male writers