Matthäus Zell


Matthäus Zell was a Lutheran pastor and an early Protestant reformer based in Strasbourg. He joined the Reformation as early as 1521.
His widow was Katharina Zell.

Life

Zell was the son of a wine maker in Kaysersberg. He studied at the Universities of Mainz, Erfurt and Freiburg im Breisgau. His compatriot Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg exerted a strong influence on him.

General references

  • Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, ADB 45, 17ff.
  • Realenzyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche, Band 21 Seite 650
  • T. W. Röhricht. Matthäus Zell. Straßburg 1855, 84-154.
  • W. Baum. Capito und Bucer. Elberfeld 1860, 195ff.
  • Ficker-Winkelmann. Handschriftenproben 2. Straßburg 1905, 55.
  • J. Adam. Ev. kg d. Stadt Straßburg. Straßburg 1922.
  • Martin Bucers Deutsche Schriften 1, Gütersloh 1960, 31 u. ö.
  • M. Weyer, L'Apologie chrétienne du réformateur strasbourgeois Matthieu Zell, 3 Bde., Diss; Université de Strasbourg, 1981.
  • M. Weyer, Martin Bucer et les Zell : Une solidarité critique, dans Martin Bucer and Sixteenth Century Europe. Actes du colloque de Strasbourg, éd. par Christian Krieger et Marc Lienhard, 2 vol., Leiden-New York-Köln, 1993, p. 275-295
  • M. Weyer, "Matthieu Zell", in: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, Strasbourg 2003.
Category:1477 births
Category:1548 deaths
Category:People from Kaysersberg-Vignoble
Category:Clergy from Haut-Rhin
Category:16th-century German Lutheran clergy
Category:Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni
Category:University of Erfurt alumni
Category:German Protestant Reformers