Andreas Musculus

Andreas Musculus was a German Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer.
Musculus was born in Schneeberg, "generally called only Musculus" and educated in Leipzig and Wittenberg. While studying theology in Wittenberg he attended lectures by Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon and married a sister-in-law of Johannes Agricola. He became professor at the university of Frankfurt an der Oder. As a theologian he was Gnesio-Lutheran and wrote polemics against the Interim, Andreas Osiander the Elder, Franciscus Stancarus, Philipp Melanchthon and John Calvin.
Musculus was one of the co-authors of the Formula of Concord. He was also one of the most remarkable defenders of Eucharistic adoration in early Lutheranism. His main work on this subject is Propositiones de vera, reali et substantiali praesentia, Corporis & Sanguinis IESU Christi in Sacramento Altaris, Francofordiae ad Oderam, 1573. He also edited prayer books with the classical hymns for the adoration of the Sacrament . E.g. his Precationes ex veteribus orthodoxis included Lauda Sion and Pange lingua. He died in Frankfurt an der Oder.

Works

Vom Hosen Teuffel. Gedruckt zu Franckfurt an der Oder durch Johann Eichorn, 1555.
Wider den Ehteuffel. Gedruckt zu Franckfurt an der Oder durch Johann Eichorn, 1556.
Vom Gotslestern. 1556.
Beider Antichrist, des Constantinopolitanischen / vnd Römischen / einstimmig vnd gleichfoermig Leer Glauben und Religion Wieder Christum den Son deß lebendigen Gottes durch D. Andream Musculum. 1557.
Vom jüngsten Tage. Kolophon: Gedruckt zu Erffurt / durch Georgium Bawman / zum bunten Lawen / bey Sanct Paul. 1557.
Wider den Fluchteufel. Von dem Unchristlichen, erschrecklichen und grausamen Fluchen und Gottslesterung, trewe und wolmeinede Vermanung und Warnung. 1561.
Von des Teufels Tyranney, Macht vnd Gewalt, sonderlich in diesen letzten tagen, vnterrichtung. Gedruckt zu Erffurdt durch Georgium Bawmann bey St. Paul. Anno 1561
Bedencks Ende. Kolophon: ''Gedruckt zu Franckfurt an der Oder / durch Johan Eichorn 1572.''