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Description: | Henry Bullinger, reformer and theologican, was born at Bengarten near Zurich. He was educated at Cologne where he studied logic, canon law, theology and the fathers, intending to take the habit of a Carthusian. The writings of Melancthon caused him to separate from the Church of Rome. As a young theology teacher, he attended the lectures given by Zwingle at Zurich in 1527 and accompanied him to the famous disputations held at Berne in 1528. The defeat at the Battle of Cappel in 1531 compelled Bullinger and his family to flee Zurich. Bullinger died in 1575. This portrait is of a type familiar from contemporary engravings of Bullinger. The artist is likely to have copied the woodcut of Bullingerus in Theodore Beza's Icones, published in 1580, which contains portraits of the Reformers. | Subjects: | portrait (Henricus Bullingerus) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8388... | Go to resource |
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