Editing Matthias Flacius (section)

{{Short description|16th century Venetian theologian and Lutheran reformer}}
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| image         = Matthias Flacius.png
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| caption       = Matthias Flacius Illyricus
| birth_name    = Matthias Vlacich or Francovich<ref name="Wackernagel"/><ref name="Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht"/><ref name="Treccani"/>
| birth_date    = 3 March 1520
| birth_place   = [[Labin]], [[Venetian Republic]]<br />(modern Croatia)
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1575|03|11|1520|03|03|df=yes}}
| death_place   = [[Free Imperial City of Frankfurt]], [[Holy Roman Empire]]<br />(Present day [[Germany]])
| nationality   = 
| other_names   = Matija Vlačić Ilirik (Franković)
| occupation    = Theologian, church historian, philosopher
| years_active  = 1544–1575
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'''Matthias Flacius Illyricus''' ([[Latin]]; {{langx|hr|Matija Vlačić Ilirik}}) or '''Francovich''' ({{langx|hr|Franković}})<ref name="Friedensburg"/><ref name="Wackernagel"/><ref name="Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht"/><ref name="Treccani">{{cite web|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/flacio-mattia-o-flacio-illirico_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29/ |title= FLACIO, Mattia, o Flacio Illirico |author= |publisher= [[Enciclopedia Italiana]] |access-date=28 January 2021|archive-date=28 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128112558/https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/flacio-mattia-o-flacio-illirico_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29/|url-status=live}}</ref> (3 March 1520 – 11 March 1575) was a [[Lutheran]] reformer from [[Istria]], present-day [[Croatia]]. He was notable as a theologian, sometimes dissenting strongly with his fellow Lutherans, and as a scholar for his editorial work on the ''[[Magdeburg Centuries]]''.
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