Flacius (q. V.) arrived in 1557, a period of disturbance was introduced. Tlie Flacianists urged duke John Frederic II to promulgate a confession of faith wliich should at the same time be a confutation of all errors, and the duke committed the preparation of the ilocu- ment to Strigel, Schnepf, and superintendent Hiigel, all of whom protested against its promulgation as unnec- essary and dangerous. Strigel offered to resign from the faculty rather than engage in the work asked at his hands, and finally declared openly that he adhered to the teaching of Melancthon's Luli of 1544. When the Flacian Confutation of 1559 was issued and was given almost symbolical authority in the churches of Ernestine Saxony, Strigel remonstrated and declared that he could not accept the confutation as of binding authority. The duke thereupon caused both him and Hiigel to be seized by armed men on the nigiit of March 25, and imprisoned until August, when, after endeavors to force him to a change of views by means of disputa- tions with Flacius and of threatenings, he was liberated in deference to the intercession of the university, the most prominent evangelical princes, and even the em- peror; but he was ordered to remain quiet and not de- part from Jena until he should have made satisfactory reply to the questions on which his views were re- quired, a sentence which became the more easy to ful- fil as he fell into fever and melancholia soon after his release from prison. The brutal treatment he had un- dergone excited general indignation, and the duke was forced to yield so far as to appoint a collocpiy between Strigel and Flacius, which began Aug. 2, 15G0, at Wei- mar. Five points of doctrine were to be discussed, but only the first, concerning the relation of the human will to divine grace in the work of conversion, was taken up. Strigel advocated, as always, the synergistic view, and pressed his arguments with such force and skill that Flacius allov;ed himself to be drawn into the as- sertion that original sin is the very substance of man in his natural state. After this colloquy the temper of the court began to change; and when the Flacianists persisted in pressing for a condemnation of Strigel de- spite an intimation that the duke desired peace, the ex- treme measure was taken of depriving Flacius of his professorship and exjielling him with his followers from the university. Strigel, on the other hand, was reha- bilitated in his chair; a declaration was issued and a visitation of the churches was ordered to pacify and unite their members. The plan encountered strong op- position, however, and Strigel, to avoid further contro- versy, undertook a journey to Leipsic in the autumn of 1562, and then refused to return, though urged to come back by a deputation from Jena. The elector permit- ted him to choose between Leipsic and Wittenberg as the field of his future labors. He chose Leipsic. In March, 156.3, he began to lecture on philosophy and theology, and in connection with his general chities he prepared a commentary on the Psalms, in which his synergistic views were clearly expressed. The uiUum theolor/icitm pursued him into this refuge also, and in February, 1567, the rector closed his lecture-room and forbade the further exercise of his professorship. Ap- peal to the elector produced no result, and he once more sought a place where he might rest in peace. He went first to Amberg and then to IIei(lell)erg, where lie be- came professor of ethics, and engaged in teaching with his usual success and acceptability; but he soon after- wards died, on June 26, 1569. He ranks among the most gifted of Melancthon's pupils, and among the in- fluential men of his time with respect both to his aca- demical and ecclesiastical position and to his literary activity. Strigel's works include philological stiulies (i:«n>«Vfes), Aristotelian philos(.|)hy ( /.////rs and DinUc- tics), and theologv. We mention, ////jiomiumdla in Om- nes Libros N. f., etc. (Lips. 2 i)ts. 8vo) -.—Loci T/ieolo- gici, etc. (Neustadt,4 pts. with appendix, edited by Pe- zel, \b8l-S-i):—/Ji/pomii.iii Epilom. P/iilnsop/iia; Moralis P. Mtlancllwn. (also by Pezel, ibid. 1582). Strigel in-
cluded much compilation in his works, though himself a clear and strong thinker. He possessed an extraordi- nary memory, and followed the principle of a common ownership in literary property; but he made no secret of his niethod, and desired others to draw from him in a similar way. In other res[iects he was a worthy char- acter, if a passionate and ambitious nature l)e left out of the account. See Adam, rjV<p 77«'(/. p. 417 s().; Bayle, JJict. 8. v.; Erdmann, y>c ^Irii/tliiiiiigiuu (Jena, 1658; Han. 1675, 4to) ; Merz, Hint. l'it(e et Coiil rovers. V. Strifidii (Till). 1732); Otto, l>e Strii/. Liherioris Mentis in Keel. Litth. Vindice (Jena, 1843). — Ilerzog, lieal- Eueylcliip. s. v.
Strigolniks. See Russian Sfxts.
Strigonia (or Gran, in Hungary), the Coincil 0I-, was held in 1114 by Lawrence, the archbishop. Si.xty-tive canons were published.
2. Orders that the epistle and gospel be expliiined every Sunday to the people in linire churches; in sniall parishes the Creed and the Lord's Prayer.
3. Orders that in all large cliurches there shall be clerks of every deirree.
4. Orders that the people f^hall come to the sacraments of penance and the holy encliaiist at Kaster and Christ- mas; the clerks at all the t.'reat festivals.