This should be the address of this letter, according to what Erl. Briefw., vol. X, p. 262. It says there note 2: Luther calls him in the heading wrongly Thonwerde. Brixius thon Noirde (Northanus) from Schöpfungen in East Frisia, 1528 Caplan in Büderich near Wesel, which he had to leave in 1530 because of his evangelical attitude, then called to Münster in 1532, where he assisted Beruh. Rothmann, whose sister he married in 1533; expelled by the Anabaptists in 1534 on January 1, he first went to Lippstadt, where he received a call to preach in Soest in March of the same year. As such, he signed the Schmalkaldic Articles in 1537 (St. Louis edition, vol. XVI, 1950) and remained here until he was expelled by the Interim, whereupon he was called to Lübeck in 1548, where he died on Aug. 4, 1557.
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