, a native of Nuremberg, canon of Breslau, was born in 1479, and
, a native of Nuremberg, canon
of Breslau, was born in 1479, and became a bigotted adherent to the Roman catholic religion, and disputed warmly
against Luther, Osiander, Bucer, Melancthon, Calvin, and
the other patriarchs of the reformation; but he is too full
of invective, even by the confession of the catholics themselves. In 1539 he received from England a refutation by
Richard Morrison, D. D. of the tract he had published
against the marriage of Henry Vjii. He replied in a
publication bearing this title “The broom of Johannes
Cochlæus for sweeping down the cobwebs of Morrison.
”
Morrison had reproached him with having been made canon
of Mersberg on condition that he should write no more
against Luther, and for having forfeited his word, on being bought over by promises from the pope. Cochlæus
declares that he is not canon of Mersberg that prince
George of Saxony sent for him to Mentz, where he was
canon of St. Victor, to give him a canonry in the cathedral
of Misnia, in order to assist Jerom Emser in the defence
of the catholic faith; adding, that it is so far from being
true that he had promised to write no more against Luther,
that in the preceding year he had published no less than
six writings against him. He defends what he had written
against the divorce of Henry VIII. and boasts that Erasmus had approved his work. The principal productions of
this author are: 1. “Historia Hussitarum,
” folio; a scarce
and curious/work, and one of his best performances. 2.
“De actis et scriptis Lutheri,
” Speculum circa Missam,
” 8vo. 4. “De vita Theoxlorici regis
Ostrogothorum,
” Stockholm, Consilium
cardinalium anno 1538,
” 8vo. 6. “De emendanda ecclesia,
”