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Benedictus Aretius, the Bernese theologian and teacher, thanks Heinrich Bullinger in this short letter for writing on his behalf to Augsburg and for his concern over the delayed letters of the Marburg theologian Andreas Hyperius. Aretius reports that he had written to Hyperius early on the day Bullinger’s letter arrived, expressing surprise that his requests had received no answer, and wrote again late at night to explain what he had since learned. Nothing, he says, can be settled until the envoys who are to meet at Morges on 3 March to examine the affair of the Lausanne school have returned.
The letter touches on the crisis of the Lausanne academy in 1558 and 1559, when conflict between the Bernese authorities and the French-speaking ministers and teachers there led to a mass departure of staff, and Bern had to find new teachers. Aretius’s contacts with Hyperius and with Augsburg suggest the search for suitable candidates abroad. The letter shows Bullinger’s role as a broker of appointments in the Reformed world and the close cooperation between the churches of Zurich and Bern.
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