The glories of Heidelberg were not damaged at all during the Second World War. Dominating the city visually is the great castle of the electors of the Palatinate, now partly in ruin, but still a magnificent sight. The University of Heidelberg where Zacharias Ursinus once taught still is very important to the city. Today the city itself has a very well-preserved Renaissance center dominated by the Holy Ghost Church where Caspar Olevianus preached. Built in the Neckar River valley the city looks across the river to rising hills covered with green. He died in 1587 surrounded by friends and supporters and was buried in Herborn.The city of Heidelberg is one of the most beautiful and charming in the world.
In 1584 he moved to the County of Nassau and became rector of Herborn Academy. Olevianus published several works on the Covenant of Grace. There, in 1578, he published a commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians, with a preface by Theodore Beza. Olevianus was banned from teaching but he was able to move to Berleburg. After the Elector's death his son Louis VI, Elector Palatine, who was strongly Lutheran in conviction, attempted to turn the school away from the Reformed doctrine of the Heidelberg catechism.
In 1560 he was invited by Frederick III, Elector Palatine to teach at the University of Heidelberg. On his return to Trier his beliefs came into conflict with those of the local clergy. He went on to study law at Bourges and came under the influence of Reformation teaching. Life īorn in Trier, Olevian was the son of a baker and attended a course of humanist studies in Paris.
That theory of authorship has been questioned by some modern scholarship. Caspar Olevian (or Kaspar Olevianus 10 August 1536 – 15 March 1587) was a significant German Reformed theologian during the Protestant Reformation and along with Zacharias Ursinus was said to be co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism.
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