Bullinger

Bullinger, HEINRICH, a Swiss Reformer, was born at Bremgarten, in the canton of Aargau, July 18, 1504. The son of a priest, who later embraced the reformed doctrine and married the mother of his five sons, he became acquainted with the writings of Luther during his studies at Cologne; next he attended the theological expositions of Zwingli at Kappel, and accompanied his master to the religious conference held at Bern in 1528, which resulted in the reformation of the canton. In 1529 he married a former nun, and two years later became pastor of the principal church at Zurich, and Zwingli's successor as leader of the reformed party in its struggle with the Catholics, as well as with the Zcalots and the Lutherans. He took a principal part in drawing up the first Helvetic Confession at Basel in 1536, and aided by his counsel the struggling church both in France and England. He died September 17, 1575. Part of the story of his Life he wrote himself in his Diarium. His history of the Reformation was edited by Hottinger and Vögel (3 vols. 1838-40). See the Lives by Pestalozzi (1858) and Christoffel (1875).