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Wolfgang Fabricius Capito (also Koepfel) ( – November 1541) was a German Protestant reformer in the Reformed tradition.
His life and revolutionary work
Capito was born circa 1478 to a smith at Hagenau in Alsace. He attended the famous Latin school in Pforzheim, where his friend Philip Melanchthon studied.
He was educated for the medical profession but also studied law. He received a doctorate in theology at Freiburg. He persuaded Johann Froben to publish a collection of Luther's works in 1518.