ANDREA (D’ANDREA), Jacob. - German Protestant theologian, b. at Weiblingen on 15 March 1528, d. at Tübingen on 7 January 1590. His school companions gave him the name of “Schmidling” or “Fabricius,” from the trade of his father, who was a blacksmith; but when he enrolled at the University of Tübingen, he changed it to that of J. d’A. It may be said that his entire, very eventful life was an uninterrupted effort to propagate everywhere and defend against every adversary Lutheran doctrines, and to bring order, peace, and concord to the affairs of his own sect and to the controversies with other sects, which he wished to unify. With some Lutheran theologians, in fact, he drew up a “Formula of Concord,” accompanied by an Epitome and a Solida Declaratio. The Formula was added in 1580 to the collection of various Lutheran symbols and appeared on 15 June under the title of Book of Concord. Yet it did not achieve its purpose, for the struggles and disputes among the various sects continued as fierce as before.
He left more than 150 writings, besides an abundant correspondence; but they did not exert a notable influence. Among them may be mentioned: De duabus naturis in Christo (1565), and Bericht von der Ubiquität (1589), in which he staunchly defends the Lutheran theory of the ubiquity of Christ’s body.