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(Matija Vlačić Ilirik)
Labin, 1520 – Frankfurt-am-Main, 1575

Lutheran reformer, theologian, linguist, philosopher and church historian. One of the most famous sons of Labin. He spent most of his life in Germany where he first studied theology, Greek and Hebrew and was Luther’s student in Wittenberg. He dedicated his life to teaching, and to the spreading and defending of what he believed was the true Lutheran understanding. He published more than 200 books, pamphlets and other materials, primarily about theology, church history and Biblical interpretation. Among his most significant works are Clavis Scripturae Sacrae (Key to the Sacred Scriptures), Catalogus Testium Veritatis (Catalogue of the Witnesses of Truth) and Ecclesiastica Historia (widely known as the Magdeburg Centuries, prepared by Flacius and a group of his colleagues. It was the first work on church history written from a Protestant perspective).

“A man of resolute courage, insuperable strength, possessing a wide-ranging knowledge one rarely encounters, with a broad vision and an industrious spirit.”
Wilhelm Preger, 1878