Stephan Agricola

[2] Although he claimed his independence of Luther, he was arrested and imprisoned in Mühldorf on November 17, 1522.

[2] In 1523 he escaped and came to Augsburg, where with Urbanus Rhegius he fully accepted the Reformation and translated Johannes Bugenhagen's tract ag.

[2] He was on the Lutheran side during the Marburg Colloquy, became pastor in Hof in 1532,[2] took part in the meeting at Schmalkalden in 1537,[1] and signed the Smalcald Articles.

[4] He was instrumental in introducing the Reformation in the Upper Palatinate, as he was pastor at Sulzbach beginning in 1542.

Stephen Agricola was a staunch uncompromising Lutheran, earnest and devoted.