Cyriacus Spangenberg
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Cyriacus Spangenberg (June 7, 1528 – February 10, 1604), was a German theologian and historian, son of the Südharz' reformator Johannes Spangenberg (1484-1550).
Cyriacus was born in Nordhausenwas. As a student, he was a fellow tenant of Martin Luther in Wittenberg, later became a minister in Eisleben, and in 1559 the General Dean of the Grafschaft Mansfeld. In the dogma tables arguments of 1575, he was driven out as radical Lutheran and pursued, and was an occasional minister in Schlitz and Vacha/Werra. He died in Strasbourg.
As a historian he wrote Mansfeldi Chronica, Saxonian Chronica, and other publications. His Adelsspiegel is probably the most important early-modern aristocracy treatise. Also he wrote How Husbands Ought to Behave and What every Christian should make...Confession of Faith.
