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Wolff Cyclop (* 1476/1477 in Zwickau ; † after 1526) was a German humanist, physician and neo-Latin poet. The surname is actually Kandelgiesser and occurs once in 1502 in the register of the University of Wittenberg , since 1507 Latinized as Cantarifusoris . Guolfus Cyclopius was the humanist name used since about 1509. In his German writings, the author called himself Wolff Cyclop .
Wolfgang (Wolff) Kandelgiesser grew up in Zwickau and received lessons from Laurentius Bärensprung. According to his own statements, he traveled to several countries in Central and Eastern Europe as a teenager. In 1494 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig and then moved to the newly founded University of Wittenberg. There he was matriculated on August 18, 1502. He earned the academic degree of bachelor and on February 2, 1504 that of master . From 1508 to 1510 he returned to Zwickau and headed the Latin school there. In 1511 he began studying medicine in Wittenberg. Cyclop later stated to be a doctor of medicine; However, the place and date of his doctorate are not documented. Cyclops had been the duke's personal physician since 1519Henry of Brunswick-Lüneburg and his family; he also practiced in the city of Lüneburg. In the spring of 1524, Cyclops got into a conflict with the guardian of the Franciscan monastery in Celle. It was about Martin Luther's interpretation of the Bible. This prompted Cyclop to leave Lüneburg and move to Magdeburg . There he acquired citizenship and bought a house. In the early summer of 1524 he campaigned for the introduction of the Reformation in Magdeburg. He resided in the St. Ulrichsparochie and was a negotiator to the patron saint of St. Ulrich, the Premonstratensian monastery of Our Lady . As a result of these negotiations, a communion service was held on July 17 “ under both kinds' celebrated under the direction of Eberhard Weidensee. From the autumn of 1525, Cyclop got into a conflict with the newly installed Magdeburg superintendent , Nikolaus von Amsdorf , over the doctrine of the Lord's Supper. Cyclop apparently represented a similar understanding of the Lord's Supper as Ulrich Zwingli and discussed it publicly. Amsdorf assumed that he was close to Thomas Müntzer , which was against the background of the Peasants' War that had just endedwas dangerous for Cyclops. Cyclop defended himself with his own pamphlets, but Amsdorf initially deprived him of his economic basis (his medical practice) and at the beginning of 1526 also pushed through his expulsion from Magdeburg. The trail of Cyclops is then lost.
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The first small Latin poems come from Cyclops' student days, and later he published his own spiritual and secular poetry. With his commitment to the Reformation, he switched to German in 1524 and wrote pamphlets.
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