Calovius

Calovius, ABRAHAM (originally Kalan), the chief representative of controversial Lutheran orthodoxy in the 17th century, born 16th April 1612 at Mohringen in East Prussia, was successively professor at Königsberg (1637), preacher at Danzig (1643), and professor at Wittenberg (1650). He waged war incessantly on Arminian, Socinian, Reformed, and Catholic doctrines, and with the greatest bitterness against Calixtus. 'He was,' says Tholuck, 'formed by nature for a grand inquisitor: hard features, powerful under-jaw, staring eyes.' He was six times married, the last time in his seventy-second year. He died 25th February 1686. His chief writings are his Systema Locorum Theologicorum (12 vols. 1655-77), the Historia Syncretistica (1682), and his great Biblia Illustrata (4 vols. 1672).