HUBERINUS (HUBER), CASPAR: Writer of devotional books in the time of the Reformation; b., according to tradition, at Wilspach (a place otherwise unknown), Bavaria, Dec. 21, 1500; d. at Oehringen (33 m. n.e. of Stuttgart) Oct. 6, 1553. It is said that he became a monk, and at the beginning of the Reformation escaped from the monastery. In 1522 he was matriculated in Wittenberg and spent some years there. From about 1525 he appears in Augsburg, apparently as an assistant to Urbanus Rhegius (q.v.). His special gifts lay in the direction of devotional literature. When the Evangelical preachers had to leave Augsburg in 1530 Hubermus remained. As almost the only theological representative of Lutheranism, he labored in intimate union with a small circle in the interest of the Lutheran views, attacking especially the Zwinglians. As the Evangelical party of Augsburg was threatened with isolation by its attacks on the Romanists, the city felt the necessity of resuming negotiations with Wittenberg, and in 1535 sent Huberinus thither as mediator. As a consequence, Johann Forster, a strict Lutheran, was called to Augsburg, and the way was prepared for the Wittenberg Concord. For the strengthening of Lutheranism, Huberinus accepted an official position as assistant preacher to Wolfgang Musculus (q.v.). In 1544 he left Augsburg and followed a call as preacher to Oehringen. He surprised the friends of strict Lutheranism by accepting the Interim. In 1551 he was called back to Augsburg to introduce the Interim there, but after a few months was expelled from the city, with other advocates of the Interim, and returned to Oehringen. He wrote Ein tr6stlich Sermon von tier Urstendt Christi den Schwachen im Qlavben niltzlich zu lesen (Wittenberg, 1525); Trost aw der Schri,$t für eynen, der inn angst vrid nott xu Gott vmb Rilfe schreid (1525); Yom Zorn und der Gilts Gotten, with a commendatory preface by Luther (1529). Against Schwenckfeld and the Anabaptists in Augsburg he published Etlich Schluaarede room gnadenbundt Christi, das ist room Tauf vrtd room Kinderglauben (1529) and Siebenzig Schluss rede odder Puncte von der Rechten handt Gotten vnd der gewalt Christi (1530; often reprinted). In his official activity as assistant of Musculus he wrote Vom wahren Erkenntnis Gotten (1537), containing the principal contents of his instructions for young people; Das Streitbtiehlein (1541); Katechismus mit roielen nch6nen Spraehen (1543); Der kleine Katechia mus (1544), an epitome of the preceding; Viertzig kurze Predigten über den Katgehumus für die Ha-usvtlter (1550?, edited in Latin by Johann Lonicer, 1554). He also wrote a commentary on Jesus Sirach (Nuremberg, 1553). His devotional writings were long popular and were reprinted as late as the

eighteenth century.

(T. Kolde.)

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