Cyriacus Spangenberg

As a student, he was a fellow tenant of Martin Luther in Wittenberg, later became a minister in Eisleben, and, in 1559, the General Dean of the Grafschaft Mansfeld.

In January 1575, he lost his place at Mansfeld because in the Flacian controversy he sided with Matthias Flacius.

Along with Flacius, he taught that through original sin some of the substantial faculties of men were also corrupted.

After getting expelled, he went on a short retreat to Vacha before moving to Strassburg, where his youngest son, Wolfhart Spangenberg [de], a poet, lived, and where he died.

Also he wrote How Husbands Ought to Behave and What every Christian should make...Confession of Faith.