CLINGE (KLING), KONRAD. — German theologian of the Conventual Franciscans, born at Nordhausen (Thuringia) around 1483–84, died at Erfurt on 10 March 1556. He earned a degree in theology at the University of Erfurt (1520).
Guardian of the same convent, he devoted 36 years to teaching theology and preaching, particularly in the Cathedral (1530), against the errors of the Lutherans; he converted many, but was opposed and slandered by the others, and personally in two writings by Luther and Menio. Among his writings: Loci communes theologici pro ecclesia catholica (Cologne 1559), Catechismus catholicus... (there 1562, 1570), etc.
BIBL.: Sbarales, I, p. 212; III, p. 338; K. Eubel, Geschichte der hölzischen Minoriten-Ordeniprevins, Cologne 1906, pp. 21, 299, 300 (s. V. K.); H. Bäcker, in Franzisk. Studien, 10 (1923), pp. 117–98; 15 (1928), pp. 252–71; 17 (1930), pp. 273–97. Lorenzo Di Fonzo