or Konstien, Wolfgang Fabricius, an eminent Reformed divine, born 1478, died 1541. On the termination of his studies at Basle, he removed to Strasburg, where he officiated as pastor till his death. He took a prominent part in the earlier ecclesiastical transactions of the sixteenth century, was present at the second conference of Zurich, and the conference of Marburg, and along with Bucer was appointed to present to the Emperor the confession of Augsburg. From his endeavours to conciliate the Lutheran and Zuinglian parties in regard to the sacraments, he seems to have incurred the suspicions of his own friends; while from his intimacy with several divines of the Socinian school, he drew down on himself the charge of a leaning to Arianism. He first married the widow of Ecolampadius, whose life he prefixed to an edition of his Commentary on Ezekiel. His second wife was a lady of great accomplishments, who was associated with him in his studies. His death was caused by the plague. He wrote *Institutionum Hebraicarum libri duo*; *Enarrationes in Habacuc et Hoseam Prophetas*; and *Explicatio doctissima in Hexameron opus Dei*.