Matthäus Zell
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Matthäus Zell (also Mathias Zell; anglicized as Matthew Zell) (21 September 1477, in Kaysersberg – 9 January 1548, in Strasbourg) was a Lutheran pastor and an early Protestant reformer based in Strasbourg. He joined the Reformation as early as 1521.
His widow was Katharina Zell.
Life
[edit]Zell was the son of a wine maker in Kaysersberg. He studied at the Universities of Mainz, Erfurt and Freiburg im Breisgau. His compatriot Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg exerted a strong influence on him.
References
[edit]General references
[edit]- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, ADB 45 (1900), 17ff.
- Realenzyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche, Band 21 Seite 650
- Konrad Fuchs (1998). "Matthäus Zell". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 14. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 383–385. ISBN 3-88309-073-5.
- T. W. Röhricht. Matthäus Zell (Mitt. a. d. Gesch. d. ev. K. d. Elsasses 3). Straßburg 1855, 84-154.
- W. Baum. Capito und Bucer. Elberfeld 1860, 195ff.
- Ficker-Winkelmann. Handschriftenproben 2. Straßburg 1905, 55.
- J. Adam. Ev. kg d. Stadt Straßburg. Straßburg 1922.
- Martin Bucers Deutsche Schriften 1, Gütersloh 1960, 31 u. ö.
- M. Weyer, L'Apologie chrétienne du réformateur strasbourgeois Matthieu Zell (Christliche Verantwortung, 1523), 3 Bde., Diss; Université de Strasbourg, 1981.
- M. Weyer, Martin Bucer et les Zell : Une solidarité critique, dans Martin Bucer and Sixteenth Century Europe. Actes du colloque de Strasbourg (28-31 août 1991), éd. par Christian Krieger et Marc Lienhard, 2 vol., Leiden-New York-Köln, 1993, p. 275-295
- M. Weyer, "Matthieu Zell", in: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, Strasbourg (Fédération des Sociétés d'Histoire et d'Archéologie d'Alsace) 2003.