12. The Fifth Diet of Augtburg was held in 1555. At this diet the ** Religious Peace of Augsburg" was concluded, which regulated the civil relations of the Evangelici&ls (by which term only the Lutherans were understood). According to this agreement, no state of the German empire was to be disturbed on account of its religion and ecclesiastical usages ; religious con- troversies were to be compromised by Christian, ami- cable, and peaceable means ; the Episcopal jurisdic- tion was suspended with regard to the £uth and relig- ious worship of Evangelicals ; tnt emigration on ac- count of religion was guaranteed. This agreement was to continue even if a religious reunion should not be effected.
13. The Third Diet <f BatiJbon was held in 1557. The assembly demanded a conference between some famous doctors of both parties : this conference, held at Worms between twelve Papists and an equal num- ber of Lutherans, was soon dissolved.
Dieterioh, John Conrad, a learned Lutheran theologian, was bom at Butzbach, Germany, Jan. 19, 1612. He became professor of Greek and history at Giessen, where he died, June 24, 1669. Among his numerous writings are, De Peregrinatione stwUorum: — Breviarium HareOcorum et ConciUorum : — Breviarium PorU\ficum Romanorum (Giessen, 1668, 8 vo);—^nrt'5ii»- tcBtes BibBcm (Giessen, 1671, fol.) i—Antiquitates Novi Tesiamendf give Lexicon PhUologico-Theologicum GrcecO' Latimtm in N. T. (Frankf. 1680, fol.).— Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Oinhxde^ xiv, 146.
Dietrlcli of Niem, or Nbheim, so called from his native place in Westphalia, studied theology, and be- came prebendary of Bonn in 1361. In 1371 he went to Avignon, where pope Gregory XI made him his secretary (Scriptor Apostolicus) ; and when that pope removed his see to Rome, Dietrich accompanied him, and obtained oflSce as papal prothonotary and abbrevi- ator. In 1395 (or 1396) Boniface IX offered him the bishopric of Werden, but he was not able to get pos- session of the see, which was held by a nominee of the anti-pope. In 1414 he attended the Council of Con- stance, and died about 1417. He wrote De neccstiiaie riformationis eccleeiasticte in capite et membris (Hardt, Hittoria concilii Constant, torn, i) ; — De schismcUe libri m (1408) (Nuremberg, 1482, folio), and republished af- terwards with the addition of the four books of Nemua unionisy of which the Labyrinthut forms a part (Basel, 1506, 1566 ; Nuremb. 1592 ; Strasburg, 1608 and 1619). The latter editions bear the title Theodorici a Niem historiarum sui iemporit Rbri IV. The Nemus was put in the lAdex. See Fabricius, Bib. Lai. Med. et Inf. IM. vol. V. ; Pierer, Umversal-Lexikon, s. v. ; Herzog, Beal-Encgkhpddie, iii, 888.
Dietrich, or Dieterich, Veit (Vitut Theodorm, or Theodoricw), was bom in 1506 at Nuremberg. Ho f>tudicd at Wittenberg, where he attracted the atten-
tion of Lnther, and became his amanoe&iis a^ » panion. Luther took him to the confereooeiiflb burg (1529), Coburg, and Uie Imperial Diet ^i^ burg (1580). He afterwards became uasust ^ feasor in the theological fiiculty at Witteobeii^ 1585 returned to Nuremberg, where he becuM pnn er at St. Sebaldns*s church, which positico be w notwithstanding the offer of profeasorships io Ik o versities of Wittenberg and Leipcie, until )a kA March 24, 1549. From 1584 to 1549 be was n tea correspondence with Luther, Melancthon, aadtkoy leaders of Protestantism. He was more radic^ I> theran than Melancthon. Dietrich had alw sa fiery discussions with Osiander on the subject d^ solution. During the latter part of his life k n sorely afflicted by the state of the Church, beisff^ suspended for a while in 1547 on account of be » dependence of expression. Besides ediUng tad 7^ lishing translations of a number of the work* cf li- ther and Melancthon, he wrote a number cf sena. an Enarratio Lu/heri m propheiam Midam; if%- buchleinfur d. Pfarrherm au^dem, Load (IStMl- Ust ed. 1755). In 1548, while iU, he wrote & kj^ matic exposition of the book of the prophet IiaiakiL contemplated doing the same for the other pr^ but was prevented by death. The EpittsU &^^ rum Nbrimbergensium ad D. Bupertum (1439), grafix.: ascribed to him, was written by Osiander. IHebi also composed several hymns. See, in the Gefm h- formatontmj the correspondence between HekKtin'. Cruciger, and Dietrich (1537-1549); 8trobd,>3^ richt V. d. Leben u, d. Schriften V. Dietriehs (Ntale; 1772) ; Herzog, ReaJUEncyldopadie, ill, 889.
Dien, de, Louis (D. LoDBwirx), was bora it VIf«. singen, April 7, 1590, where his father, Danid ie PK labored in the ministry 24 years, having pcvioft(^^j spent 22 years as minister of the Beformed CkoK^is Brussels. Louis was at an eariy age derotei to t> service of the Church, and placed under the on (^ his uncle, Daniel Colonius, regent of the Wtliois Ct^ lege at Leyden, a competent and xealoos iastractri theology. Here he made great proficiency m kn tk- ological studies. Whilst yet a candidate be ms kct in Zealand by prince Maurice, who offered kia ik position of court-preacher, which he declined. Ic 1'^ he became preacher to the Walloon chordi in Xidjei- burg^ and in 1617 he was called to the Reformed tis-i in Yliessingen, where he preached not only m Dit^ but also in French and English. In 1619 be vat c^ ed to be pastor of the Reformed churdi in LMa Whilst here he declined the professordiip of tbeti*- gy offered him in the newly-founded Univtrs^r A Utrecht. Had his life been spared, the sane p(«^t in the University of Leyden would have been tec&fft! him. He died December 22, 1642. De XAea w 1 man of eminent gifts and attainments, and aj^ the esteem of many of his most excellent cooteBpca- ries. His attention was specially devoted to tbe (^ ental languages. The fruits of his study in tbit Ss^ tion were : Compendium Gmmmatiem Hdtrmcm (U> den, 1626, 4to) ; Grammatica Tritingmt, Bdr»«. Syriaca, et Chaldaica (Leyden, 1628, 4to); Arfsn« Lingua Persicm (Leyden, 1639, -tto). These w« d written in Latin. His Oriental stndies were ^ subservient to the elucidation of the Holy Scx^)tB^ In 1627 he published at Leyden his Apoeakfpm S.J^ hannis Syriace ex MS. easemp. BibSoth. Jos. 5co%^ edttOfCharactere Syriaco et ffebrteo, cum ttrmmlM^ GrcBCO 'textu et notis; and in 1631 his Amwuiimum sive Comment, in qucOuor EvtmgeliOf m guocottalit.Sf imprimis J Arabis^ EvangfUi Hei>rm, VulgaA^ D.Ds^ et Beta versionibus, difficiHa loca tUustrantur et w» lectiones confenmtur. In this work he discus?«d «t3 great impartiality and accuracy the value of tlwfe S^ ^ent translations. Critical and exegetical vorb a the Acts of the Apostles, on the Epistle to the BaiBi:^ eto. succeeded. In these the various traadftkcf