Nikolaus Decius
DECIUS, Nikolaus. b. Upper Franconia, Bavaria, ca. 1490?; d. Stettin, 21 March 1541. He was also known as Nikolaus a Curia, Nikolaus von Hofe, and Nikolaus Hovesch. He became ‘Probst’ (‘Provost’) of a monastery at Steterburg, near Wolfenbüttel in 1519. Convinced by the Reformers, he left the monastery in 1522, and became a schoolmaster at Braunschweig. He matriculated at the University of Wittenberg in 1523, and became a Lutheran preacher at Stettin in 1526, before being appointed preacher at St Nicholas’ Church. He had a reputation as a fine preacher. He died at Stettin, under suspicious circumstances (see JJ, p. 285). He was the author of a number of translations from the Latin:
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