Konrad Huber

HUBER (or Hubert), Konrad. b. Bergzabern (west of Karlsruhe, on the edge of the Pfalzer Wald), 1507; d. Strasbourg, 13 April 1577. He studied at Heidelberg and at Basel, where he met the reformer John Oecolampadius (1482-1531) and later Martin Bucer*, and became a reformer himself. He assisted Bucer in the parish of St Thomas, later becoming a cantor at Strasbourg and then priest at Weshoffen, west of Strasbourg. After Bucer’s death in 1551, much of Huber’s time was devoted to collecting Bucer’s writings. Strife between Lutherans and Calvinists caused him to lose his post in the parish of St Thomas, although he was permitted to live in the clergy house at Strasbourg, where he died. It is...