e (_Burntwood_) is supposed to record an original
settlement made in a clearing of the forest. The district is largely
residential.

BRENZ, JOHANN (1499-1570), Lutheran divine, eldest son of Martin Brenz,
was born at Weil, Wurttemberg, on the 24th of June 1499. In 1514 he
entered the university of Heidelberg, where Oecolampadius was one of his
teachers, and where in 1518 he heard Luther discuss. Ordained priest in
1520, and appointed preacher (1522) at Hall in Swabia, he gave himself
to biblical exposition. He ceased to celebrate mass in 1523, and
reorganized his church in 1524. Successful in resisting the peasant
insurrection (1525), his fortunes were affected by the Schmalkaldic War.
From Hall, when taken by the imperial forces, he fled on his birthday in
1548. Protected by Duke Ulrich of Wurttemberg, he was appointed (January
1553) provost of the collegiate church of Stuttgart. As organizer of the
reformation in Wurttemberg he did much fruitful work. A strong advocate
of Lutheran doctrine, and author of the _Syngramma Suevicum_ (October
21, 1525), which set forth Luther's doctrine of the Eucharist, he was
free from the persecuting tendencies of the age. He is praised and
quoted (as Joannes Witlingius) for his judgment against applying the
death penalty to anabaptists or other heretics in the _De Haereticis, an
sint persequendi_ (1554), issued by Sebastian Castellio under the
pseudonym of Martinus Bellius. An incomplete edition of his works
(largely expository) appeared at Tubingen, 1576-1590. Several of his
sermons were reproduced in contemporary English versions. A volume of
_Anecdota Brentiana_ was edited by Pressel in 1868. He died on the 11th
of September 1570, and was buried in his church at Stuttgart; his grave
was subsequently violated. He was twice married, and his eldest son,
Johann Brenz, was appointed (1562) professor of theology in Tubingen at
the early age of twenty-two.

See Hartmann and Jager, _Johann Brenz_ (1840-1842); Bossert, in
Hauck's _Realencyklop_. (1897). (A. Go.*)

BREQUIGNY, LOUIS GEORGES OUDARD FEUDRIX DE (1714-1795), French scholar,
was born at Gainneville near Havre, on the 22nd of February 1714, and
died at Paris on the 3rd of July 1795. His first publications were
anonymous: an _Histoire des revolutions de Genes jusqu'a la paix de
1748_ (1750), and a series of _Vies des orateurs grecs_ (1752). Elected
a member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres in 1