Well, welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode, we have our third and final visit to the unlikely places where the reformation took hold, and our third destination is Braggoff Transylvania or Romania.

And actually in German it's known as Kronstadt.

So you could call it Braggoff Romania or Kronstadt, Transylvania or any combination thereof.

The story of the reformation here has Johannes, Hunteris playing the lead role.

Huntaurus is also sometimes simply known as Hunter.

He was born in 1498, and he died in 1549.

He left behind a book with a very straightforward title,

The Reformation booklet for Konsstadt.

It was about the Reformation, as the title says. It was a booklet as the title says.

And the audience of this booklet was the people of Kondstadt, as the title says.

Well, who was he?

Well, he was famous enough in Romania that in 2007 he appeared on a stamp.

He first studied at Vienna and then he had to go to Regensburg.

It had something to do with an invasion of that city. And then he ended up at Basel. Basel, of course, was a famous

Reformation city. This was the home of none other than Johannes Echolmpadius, one of the most brilliant Old Testament scholars,

probably of the entire reformation, Luther said he owed everything he knew

about understanding the Old Testament to Echolumpotius.

Basel was also a great printing center.

This is where Erasmus published his Greek text with the Greek on one side and the Latin on

the other side because the printers at

Basel were among the best in the business.

Well in addition to being a churchman and a scholar,

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