{"id":405,"date":"2023-01-18T16:25:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T16:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/?p=405"},"modified":"2023-01-18T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T16:45:39","slug":"finding-oecolampadius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/2023\/01\/18\/finding-oecolampadius\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Oecolampadius"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was visiting Z\u00fcrich last summer for the Leverhulme project \u2018The Correspondence of Huldrych Zwingli and Johannes Oecolampadius: Translation & Analysis\u2019, so I could describe and analyse the original manuscript letters. Zwingli of Z\u00fcrich (1484-1531) and Oecolampadius of Basel (1482-1531) are Swiss reformers, who started the reformation in their respective cities. Walking around Z\u00fcrich, it was nice to see that Zwingli is everywhere. Over the door of the Grossm\u00fcnster,<\/p>\n

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A collection of Photos taken by Sharon Van Dijk on her trip to Zurich in summer 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

the church where Zwingli was pastor from 1519<\/p>\n

until his death in 1531, you can read: \u2018In diesem Gotteshaus nahm die Reformation Huldrych Zwinglis ihren Anfang\u2019. The square it is on is now called \u2018Zwingliplatz\u2019 and numerous houses carry a plaque with information about Zwingli\u2019s stay there. An impressive 19th-century statue to commemorate him can be found at the Wasserkirche, next to the river Limmat.<\/p>\n

On my first Sunday in Switzerland, when the libraries were closed, I decided to visit Basel, Oecolampadius\u2019s city. It is also the place where the famous Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus spent many years and died in 1536. I visited the Basler M\u00fcnster, where Erasmus is buried. I had heard there are also monuments for Oecolampadius there. I found Erasmus\u2019s gravestone very soon \u2013 it is a lavish monument, engraved with golden letters and can be found in the M\u00fcnster itself. I had to search a bit longer for Oecolampadius. There is a commemorative plaque with inscriptions on three notable Basel figures, including the reformer, in the cloisters, where hundreds of inscriptions<\/p>\n

can be found. I had heard there was also a statue of him, but could not find it anywhere. As I was walking round the M\u00fcnster for a final look after my visit, I spotted it\u2026 No wonder I had not seen it before! It was hidden behind a tree, and to see it properly I had to stand between the plants in the plot that surrounded the tree. I also visited the Martinskirche, Oecolampadius\u2019s church in Basel. To my surprise there was no mention of him there either. There was only a small, recent plaque about his wife, Wibrandis Rosenblatt (1504-1564), who was married to Oecolampadius from 1528 to 1531 and was thereafter married to the Strasbourg reformers Wolfgang Capito (c. 1478-1541) and Martin Bucer (1491-1551).<\/p>\n

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My quest for traces of Oecolampadius reflects his position in accounts of the Swiss reformation more generally. While<\/p>\n

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Photo of statue of Oecolampadius by Sharon Van Dijk in Summer 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Zwingli is well-known, many texts on the reformation do not even mention Oecolampadius. Yet, as the correspondence reveals, and scholars such as Amy Burnett and Jeff Fisher have argued, Oecolampadius shaped many of the views which are today considered Zwinglianism. We hope that our English edition of the correspondence between Zwingli and Oecolampadius will contribute to restoring the Basel scholar and reformer to his rightful place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sharon van Dijk takes us on a quest to find Johannes Oecolampadius in Basel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2491,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-trip","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","no-featured-image-padding"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2023\/01\/Johannes_Oecolampadius_by_Asper.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2023\/01\/Johannes_Oecolampadius_by_Asper.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Nathan Jopling","author_link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/author\/ntj795\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/crems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}