Andreas Karlstadt

Andreas Bodenstein was born in 1486 in Karlstadt, in Franconia, Germany, and is known by the name of his hometown. He studied at Erfurt and Cologne and became a professor at the new University of Wittenberg, where in 1512 he presided at the ceremony at which Martin Luther received his doctorate in theology. Karlstadt became one of Luther's earliest supporters, and in 1519 he debated the Catholic theologian Johann Eck at the Leipzig Disputation, with Luther joining later. While Luther was hidden at the Wartburg castle in 1521–1522, Karlstadt led rapid changes in Wittenberg, celebrating communion in plain clothes and in German and supporting the removal of images from churches. Luther returned and opposed the pace of these reforms, and the two men became rivals, disagreeing especially about the Lord's Supper. Karlstadt was expelled from Saxony in 1524 and later moved among Reformed communities in Switzerland. He became a professor at Basel, where he died of plague in 1541.

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Faith: German theologian and early supporter of Martin Luther who later pressed for more extensive reform. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica