Translated from German by Stephen Buckwalter.
Hans-Jurgen Prien, Dr. theol. (1967), Dr. theol. habil. (1979), Universitat zu Koln, Historisches Institut, is retired Professor for Iberian and Latin American History and church history. He has published monographs and many articles on Latin America and topics of church history. About the Translator: Stephen Buckwalter grew up in Argentina of American parents. He attended Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, where he majored in history. He performed graduate studies in history and Protestant theology at the universities of Heidelberg and Gottingen, and received his doctorate in church history in Gottingen in 1996, with a dissertation on "Priestly marriage in early Reformation pamphlets". Since 1998 he has been editing the German-language works of the Strasbourg reformer Martin Bucer at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His translation of the standard German biography of Martin Bucer by Martin Greschat was published in 2004.
