ANDREA (D'ANDREA), JACOB. - German Protestant theologian, b. at Weiblingen on 15 March 1528, d. at Tübingen on 7 Jan. 1590. His schoolmates gave him the name “Schmiding” or “Fabricius,” from his father’s trade, who was a blacksmith; but when he enrolled at the University of Tübingen, he changed it to J. d’A. It may be said that his entire, highly eventful life was an uninterrupted endeavor to spread everywhere and defend against every adversary the Lutheran doctrines, and to establish order, peace, and concord in the affairs of his sect and in the controversies with the other sects, which he would have wished to unite. Indeed, with several Lutheran theologians he drew up a “Formula of Concord,” accompanied by an Epitome and a Solida declaratio. In 1580 the formula was added to the collection of the various Lutheran symbols and appeared on 15 June under the name Book of Concord. But it did not attain its aim, because the struggles and disputes among the various sects continued as fiercely as before.
He left more than one hundred and fifty writings, besides an abundant correspondence; but they did not exert notable influence. The following may be mentioned: De duobus naturis in Christo (1565), and Bericht von der Ubiquität (1589), in which he tenaciously defends the Lutheran theory of the ubiquity of Christ’s body.