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[German Version] (actually Hertel), (c. 1510, Klausenburg – Nov 15, 1579, Déva), studied 1546–1559 in Wittenberg and Frankfurt an der Oder, in 1551 became teacher in Bistritz, in 1552 the first Protestant pastor in Petersdorf (north Transylvania), in 1555 school director in Klausenburg, in 1556 superintendent of the Hungarian Evangelical-Lutheran Church. Initi…

[German Version] 1. Georg (Apr 28, 1672, Sighişoara [Ger. Schäßburg], Romania – Dec 15, 1740, Biertan [Ger. Bierthälm], Romania), Protestant bishop and historian in Transylvania. He studied in Wittenberg (1691–1695), where he received the M.A., was a teacher and principal in Sighişoara (1695–1698), then pastor in several rural congregations, in Mediaş (1713), and, finally, superintendent (bishop, 1736). In his Historia ecclesiarum Transylvanicarum (1694), still uncritically indebted to older, humanistic scholarship, Haner compiled collections of documents…

[German Version] (1639, Kronstadt [=Brasov], Transylvania – Apr 14, 1713, Kronstadt), theologian and educator. He attended school in Kronstadt and Hermannstadt, studied in Wittenberg from 1680 to 1686 (M.A. in 1682), and became a teacher and preacher in Kronstadt. He pastored in rural congregations from 1684, and in Kronstadt from 1703. Shaped by Lutheran orthodoxy (II, 2.a), Fronius was open to Pietism and the early Enlightenment, which he was able to combine in powerful language in print and in …

[German Version] (c. 1525, Carpona, Transylvania – Sep 18, 1571, Sibiu, Transylvania). Hebler studied at Wittenberg from 1546 to 1551 and received his M.A. After ordination by J. Bugenhagen, in 1551 he became a teacher and in 1552 rector in Sibiu. In 1554 he was appointed preacher, in 1555 municipal pastor, and in 1556 superintendent of the Saxon church in Transylvania. In the doctrinal disputes that arose in Transylvania (F. Stancarus, M. Dévai Biró, G. Biandrata [Blandrata], F. Dávid), as a disc…