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Jacob Heerbrand
Jacob Heerbrand (12 August 1521 – 22 May 1600) was a German Protestant theologian, reformer and controversialist.
Life.
He was born at Giengen in Swabia on 12 August 1521. He was educated at the school at 
Ulm, and at the universities of Wittenberg (M.A., 1543) and Tübingen (D.Theol., 1550). He was for five years (1538–43) the pupil of Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon.
In 1543 he entered the service of the Württemberg Church and accepted
To continue the work of public lectures which he began, he gave a Sunday course of polemics to the clergy and laity. Appointed rector of the college at Prague in 1561, he was transferred in 1570 to the college at Graz, where he continued with lectures on theology. He died at Graz.
Works.
Maintaining his controversy with the heretics of Bohemia, he published a collection of theses: "De ciborum delectu atque jejunio" (Prague 1559). Attacked by Jacob Heerbrand on his doctrine concerning the Church