Johannes Wolf (theologian)

Johannes Wolf (1521–1572) was a Swiss Reformed theologian.

Johannes Wolf was born in Zurich in the year 1521.

In 1565 he became theology professor at the Carolinum in Zürich, also known as the Zurich Academy or Lectorium.

With Bullinger and Rudolf Gwalther he intervened unsuccessfully on behalf of Thomas Erastus and the general Zwinglian conception of church-state relations in the Electorate of the Palatinate church discipline controversy of the late 1560s.

[3] Wolf's colleague Johann Wilhelm Stucki composed a biography of him upon his death.