Brenz, Johannes
German clergyman
born June 24, 1499, Weil, Württemberg 【Germany】
died September 11, 1570, Stuttgart
German Protestant Reformer, principal leader of the Reformation in Württemberg.
He studied at Heidelberg and was ordained a priest in 1520, but by 1523 he had ceased to celebrate mass and had begun to speak in favour of the Reformation. Brenz supported the views of Martin Luther (Luther, Martin); in Syngramma Suevicum (1525) he expounded Luther's doctrine of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.