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Hieronymus Schulz
As the son of a village schoolboy, he has reached highly respected positions. Very little is known about his career. In 1504 he was already a well-traveled man who was Pleban in Cottbus, canons in Brandenburg and influential counsel of the Elector Joachim of Brandenburg. He stood by this in 1505 at the baptism of his son Joachim II. He was honored as an excellent rhetorician. In 1506 he was appointed provost in Salzwedel and 1507 bishop of the diocese of Brandenburg.

It was painful for him, however, that the cradle of the Reformation belonged to his sprengel. As Bishop Martin Luther he also received his 95 theses first. Nevertheless, he endeavored to establish a relative agreement between the contending parties. For this he went to Wittenberg and forbade Luther's printer to continue his counter-dispute for indulgence.

Initially, Luther responded to his request, but when Johann Tetzel and Konrad Wimpina did not cease to act against his ideas, Luther broke his word and made for his bishop on May 22, 1518 a letter of justification. After Luther had participated in the Leipzig disputation, he became a determined opponent of the same. Nevertheless, he feared that the excommunication bull would publish the Decet Romanum Pontificem against Luther in his parish, out of fear of rebellion.

Therefore, he tried at the Diet of Worms (1521) to persuade Luther to renounce his ideas. Luther did not abandon his approach, but his employer rewarded him despite papal contradiction with the settled bishopric Havelberg, where he was introduced on 9 August 1521 as bishop. He managed this office for only one year until his death. After his death he was buried in Wittstock.