Naogeorgus (Kirchmeyer), 1511-63, was born at Straubingen, Germany. Irrational and violent hatred seems to have ruled most of his life and work. He studied at Tubingen and in 1536 took the pastorate of Sulza in Th|ringen. He was a strong Lutheran at first, as is seen in Pammachius, but latter quarrelled with Luther and Melanchthon over the doctrine of election. In 1544 he became an adviser to Johan Friedrich, Elector of Saxony. When an inquiry opened in 1544 about his alleged heresy, he moved around and by 1549 was in Switzerland. He wrote the Boke of Spiritual Husbandry, afterwards famous in England. It was a theological interpretation of Virgil's Georgics: hence Naogeorgus. Other works followed: plays and the massive Papal Realm, which attacked with hatred the ceremonials and life of "the Roman Babylon." He returned to Germany and again was forced to move around. - Malaspina Biography
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