or APOLLUS, JOHANN, professor of law in the University of Wittemberg, and one of the most zealous partisans of Luther in promoting the Reformation, was born at Nuremberg in 1486. Having married a nun while canon of Warzburg, he published his Defensio Jo. Apelli pro suo Conjugio; cum prof. Lutheri, &c. 1523, 4to. His other works are entitled Methodica Dialectices Ratio, ad Jurisprudentiam accommodata, Norimb. 1535, 4to; and Brachylogus Juris Civitatis, sive Corpus Legum, a work much esteemed, and once ascribed to the Emperor Justinian. He died in 1540.