Johannes Oecolampadius

Johannes Oecolampadius
Posthumous portrait by Hans Asper, before 1550
Born	1482 Weinsberg, Electoral Palatinate
Died	24 November 1531(1531-11-24) (aged 49) Basel, Old Swiss Confederacy
Occupation	Theologian
Theological work
Tradition or movement	Calvinism

Johannes Oecolampadius (also Œcolampadius, in German also Oekolampadius, Oekolampad; 1482 – 24 November 1531) was a German Protestant reformer in the Calvinist tradition from the Electoral Palatinate. He was the leader of the Protestant faction in the Baden Disputation of 1526, and he was one of the founders of Protestant theology, engaging in disputes with Erasmus, Huldrych Zwingli, Martin Luther and Martin Bucer. Calvin adopted his view on the Eucharist dispute (against Luther).

His German surname was Hussgen (or Heussgen, Huszgen), which he etymologized to Hausschein ("house-shine") and graecized (as was the custom at the time) to Οἰκολαμπάδιος^[a](Oikolampádios, from οἶκος oîkos, "house," and λαμπάς lampás, "torch, lamp", and -ιος, -ios, "pertaining to"; this was then Latinised as Oecolampadius).^[b]
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