Ludwig Lavater
{{Short description|Swiss Reformed theologian}}
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Ludwig Lavater (4 March 1527; Kyburg (castle) – 5 July 1586 in Zurich) was a Swiss Reformed theologian working in the circle of his father-in-law, Heinrich Bullinger. He served as Archdeacon at the Grossmünster in Zurich and briefly Antistes of the Zurich church as the successor of Rudolf Gwalther.
Lavater was a prolific author, composing homilies, commentaries, a survey of the liturgical practices of the Zurich church, a history of the Lord's Supper controversy, as well as biographies of Bullinger and Konrad Pellikan. His work on ghosts (De spectris ...) was one of the most frequently printed demonological works of the early modern period, going into at least nineteen early modern editions in German, Latin, French, English and Italian.Moeller, Katrin: Lavater, Ludwig. In: Lexikon zur Geschichte der Hexenverfolgung, hrsg. v. Gudrun Gersmann, Katrin Moeller und Jürgen-Michael Schmidt, in: historicum.net, URL: http://www.historicum.net/no_cache/persistent/artikel/5519/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214211629/http://www.historicum.net/no_cache/persistent/artikel/5519/ |date=2013-12-14 }} Accessed April 8, 2010
Works
- De ritibus et institutis ecclesiae Tigurinae. 1559 (Modern edition: Die Gebräuche und Einrichtungen der Zürcher Kirche. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 1987. {{ISBN|3-290-11590-9}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=mnM8AAAAcAAJ&q=ludwig+lavater Historia de origine et progressu controversiae Sacramentariae de Coena Domini, ab anno nativitatis Christi MDXXIIII. usque ad annum MDLXIII.] Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1563.
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=NcI5AAAAcAAJ&q=ludwig+lavater+de+spectris De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus.]. Leiden, 1569.
- [http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00028986/image_1 Von Gespänsten ..., kurtzer und einfaltiger bericht]. Zürich, 1569 (VD 16 L 834).
- [http://extern.historicum.net/hexen/hist_lavater.php Von Gespänsten, in Theatrum de Veneficis]. Frankfurt, 1586.
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- {{HLS|10728|Lavater, Ludwig|author=Hans Ulrich Bächtold}}
- {{Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie|18|83|84|Lavater, Ludwig|Georg von Wyß}}
- Katrin Moeller, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131214211629/http://www.historicum.net/no_cache/persistent/artikel/5519/ Lavater, Ludwig.], in Lexikon zur Geschichte der Hexenverfolgung. ed. Gudrun Gersmann, Katrin Moeller and Jürgen-Michael Schmidt, in historicum.net
- [http://www.digital-collections.de/index.html?c=autoren_index&l=en&ab=Lavater%2C+Ludwig Works of Ludwig Lavater] in the Munich Digitization Center
- [http://www.prdl.org/author_view.php?a_id=387 Works of Lavater] at the Post-Reformation Digital Library
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{{s-bef|before=Rudolf Gwalther}}
{{s-ttl|title=Antistes of Zürich|years=1585-1586}}
{{s-aft|after=John Rudolph Stumpf}}
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Category:16th-century Swiss writers
Category:16th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians