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Johannes Bugenhagen
Johannes Bugenhagen was a Pomeranian theologian, close colleague of Martin Luther and pastor of Wittenberg, known as Doctor Pomeranus. He wrote church ordinances for many north German cities and for Denmark. In his homeland he drafted the Lutheran church order adopted after the Diet of Treptow in 1534, which brought the Reformation to the Duchy of Pomerania.
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