Editing Leonhard Hutter (section)

==Life==
He was born at [[Nellingen]] near [[Ulm]].  From 1581 he studied at the universities of [[university of Strasbourg|Strasbourg]], [[university of Leipzig|Leipzig]], [[university of Heidelberg|Heidelberg]] and [[university of Jena|Jena]]. In 1594 he began to give theological lectures at [[Jena]], and in 1596 accepted a call as professor of [[theology]] at [[university of Wittenberg|Wittenberg]], where he died twenty years later.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}