Editing Leonhard Hutter

{{Short description|German Lutheran theologian (1563–1616)}}
[[File:Leonhard-Hutter.jpg|thumb|Leonhard Hutter]]
'''Leonhard Hutter''' (also ''Hütter'', Latinized as Hutterus; 19 January 1563 – 23 October 1616) was a German [[Lutheran]] [[theology|theologian]].

==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}}

==Works==
Hutter was a stern champion of [[Lutheran orthodoxy]], as set down in the confessions and embodied in his own ''Compendium locorum theologicorum'' (1610; reprinted 1863), being so faithful to his master as to win the title of "Luther redonatus."{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

In reply to [[Rudolf Hospinian]]'s ''Concordia discors'' (1607), he wrote a work, rich in historical material but one-sided in its argument, ''Concordia concors'' (1614), defending the [[formula of Concord]], which he regarded as inspired. His ''Irenicum vere christianum'' is directed against [[David Pareus]] (1548–1622), professor primarius at Heidelberg, who in ''Irenicum sive de unione et synodo Evangelicorum'' (1614) had pleaded for a reconciliation of [[Lutheranism]] and [[Calvinism]]; his ''Calvinista aulico-politicus'' (1610) was written against the "damnable Calvinism" which was becoming prevalent in [[Holstein]] and [[Brandenburg]]. Another work, based on the [[Formula of Concord]], was entitled ''Loci communes theologici''.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Hutter, Leonhard|year=1905}}
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Hutter, Leonhard|volume=14|page=15}}

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