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Johann Eck (b. 13 November 1486, d. 13 February 1543), was the disputatious, immoderately violent opponent of [[Luther, Martin (1483-1546)|Luther]]. He became a friend of [[Hubmaier, Balthasar (1480?-1528)|Hubmaier]], his student at the University of Freiburg i. Br. When Hubmaier won his master's degree, Eck delivered the Latin laudatory oration. When Eck was transferred to [[Ingolstadt (Freistaat Bayern, Germany)|Ingolstadt]] as professor of theology Hubmaier entered the university there. In [[Waldshut (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)|Waldshut]] Hubmaier challenged his old teacher to a disputation; Eck ignored it. Among the numerous polemics written by Eck the following are of interest in the history of the [[Anabaptism|Anabaptists]]:

<ol> <li><em>Ein Sendbrieve an ein frum Eidgenossenschaft betreffende die Ketzerische disputation Frantz Kolben, des ausgeloffen Münchs und B. Hallers, des verlogenen Predikanten des hochwürdigen sacrament des altars </em>(Ingolstadt, 1528); </li> <li><em>Articulos 404 ad disputationes Lipsicum, Baden et Bernen attinentes partim vero scriptis pacem ecclesiae perturbantium extractos . . . offert se disputatorum </em>(Ingolstadt, 1530), in which he attacks Hubmaier and his <em>Schlussreden </em>(Calvary, 46). </li> <li>His letter to [[Georg, Duke of Saxony (1471-1539)|Duke George of Saxony]], 26 November 1527, must also be mentioned (Seidemann, 150).</li></ol> In the 404 articles Eck proposed for the disputation of Ingolstadt in 1536, he intentionally throws [[Zwingli, Ulrich (1484-1531)|Zwingli]], Luther, and the Anabaptists together indiscriminately, and derives the Anabaptists ("who deny the Deity of Christ") from Luther.
= Bibliography =
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. ''Mennonitisches Lexikon'' (Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967), I, 501.

Seidemann, Johann Karl. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Thomas Münzer: Eine Biographie.</em> Dresden: in der Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, 1842.

<em class="gameo_bibliography">Verzeichniss seltener und werthvoller Werke, S. Calvary Antiquariat. </em>Berlin, 1870: 46.
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