Wolfgang Captio

               Wolfgang Capito was a reformer that was referenced in the Zophy text.  Our textbook briefly described him as the reformer which pushed Oecolampadius to marry Wibrandis Rosenblatt.  After Oecolampadius's death Capito married WIbrandis after losing his own wife.  Capito was born in what is now France and was a leader in the reformation.  Educated in German Universities he soon became a Roman Catholic Priest before he joined the reformation. 

                Capito was the leader of the Reformation in Strasbourg and met with Martin Luther several times to help solidify the ideas that were key to his platform.  Capito often found himself in the middle of opposing views.  He tried to help unite the views of the Lutherans and the Zwinglians on the issue of sacraments.   In addition, when many were becoming resentful to the Anabaptist he remained friendly in his earlier years.  He wrote several different books and had publications that were key in the Reformation.   

                What interest me most about Capito is his relationships.  When thinking of history I tend to think of famous people in our past as their own entity without any relationships.  I forget that these people were all interrelated.  It's is amazing imaging Martin Luther and Zwinglian in the same room debating, or Captio persuding Oecolampadius to marry.