Brieger, Johann Friedrich Theodor

BRIEGER, brî´ger, JOHANN FRIEDRICH THEODOR: German Protestant; b. at Greifswald June 4, 1842; educated at the universities of Greifswald, Erlangen, and Tübingen from 1861 to 1864 (Ph.D., Leipsic, 1870). He became privat-docent at Halle in 1870, and was appointed associate professor of church history in the same university three years later. In 1876 he was called to Marburg as full professor of the same subject, and since 1886 has been professor of church history at Leipsic. In addition to numerous contributions to theological periodicals, he has written Gasparo Contarini und das Regensburger Concordienwerk des Jahres 1541 (Gotha, 1870); De formulæ Ratisbonensis origine atque indole (Halle, 1870); Constantin der Grosse als Religionspolitiker (Gotha, 1880); Die angebliche Marburger Kirchenordnung von 1527 (1881); Luther und sein Werk (Marburg, 1883); Aleander und Luther, 1521 (Gotha, 1884); Die Torgauer Artikel (Leipsic, 1888); Die theologischen Promotionen auf der Universität Leipzig 1428–1539 (1890); Der Glaube Luthers in seiner Freiheit von menschlichen Autoritäten (1892); Die fortschreitende Entfremdung von der Kirche im Licht der Geschichte (1894); Das Wesen des Ablasses am Ausgange des Mittelalters (1897); and Zur Geschichte des Augsburger Reichstages von 1530 (1903). He was also one of the founders of the Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte in 1876, and has been its editor to the present time.