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Jacob (or
Jakob, or
Jacques)
Sturm von Sturmeck (
August 10,
1489 -
October 30,
1553),
German statesman and reformer, was born at
Strasbourg, where his father, Martin Sturm, was a person of some importance.
He was educated at the universities of
Heidelberg and
Freiburg, and about
1517 he entered the service of Henry,
provost of Strasbourg (d. 1555), a member of the Wittelsbach family. He soon became an adherent of the
reformed doctrines, and leaving the service of the provost became a member of the governing body of his native city in
1524.
He was responsible for the policy of Strasbourg during the
Peasants' War; represented the city at the
Diet of Speyer in 1526; and at subsequent Diets gained fame by his ardent championship of its interests. As an advocate of union among the
Protestants he took part in the conference at
Marburg in 1529; but when the attempts to close the breach between
Lutherans and
Zwinglians failed, he presented the
Confessio tetrapolitana, a Zwinglian document, to the Augsburg Diet of 1530. As the representative of Strasbourg Sturm signed the protest which was presented to the Diet of Speyer in 1529, being thus one of the original Protestants. He was on friendly terms with
Philip, landgrave of Hesse.
Owing largely to his influence, Strasbourg joined the
Schmalkaldic League in
1531. The troops of Strasbourg took the field when the league attacked
Charles V in
1546; but in February 1547 the citizens were compelled to submit, when Sturm succeeded in securing very favourable terms from the emperor. He was also able to obtain for his native city some modification of the Interim issued from Augsburg in May 1548. Sturm is said to have been in the pay of
Francis I of France, but this seems very unlikely. He founded the Bibliothek and a gymnasium in Strasbourg, where he died.
See H Baumgarten,
Jakob Sturm (Strasbourg, 1876); A Baum,
Magistrat und Reformation in Strassburg bis 1529 (Strasbourg, 1887); J Rathgeber,
Strassburg im i Jahrhundert (Stuttgart, 1871); O Winckelmann, "Jakob Sturm," in the
Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, Bd. xxxvii. (Leipzig, 1894); and
Johannes Sturm,
Consolatio ad. senatum argentinensem de morte Jacobi Sturmii (Strasbourg, 1553).
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