Friedrich Myconius

Myconius was born in Lichtenfels, Bavaria, and he was educated there and at Annaberg, where he had an encounter with Johann Tetzel, a Dominican, in a disagreement over indulgences.

That same night a dream turned his thoughts towards the religious standpoint which he subsequently reached as a Lutheran.

He was intimately connected with the general progress of the reforming movement, and was especially in the confidence of Luther.

He took a leading part in all the religious disputations and conferences of the time, and at the 1537 Convention of Smalkald he signed the articles on his own behalf and that of his friend Justus Menius.

[1] In 1538, Myconius was sent to England to discuss the details of the Augsburg Confession, as theologian to the embassy which hoped to induce Henry VIII to make common cause with the Lutheran reformation.