CALOVUS, ABRAHAM, a celebrated Lutheran divine,
was born at Mohringen in Brunswick in 1612. He studied
at Rostock and Königsberg, and was professor of theology
at Wittemberg when he died in 1686. He took a promi-
nent part in the Socinian and other controversies of the day,
but especially distinguished himself in the syncretistic con-
troversy with Calixtus. He carried on his disputes with so
great vehemence that his Historia Syncretistica was confiscat-
ed by the elector of Saxony.