Faber, Johannes. — Dominican preacher and polemicist, born in Augsburg c. 1475, died in 1530. He was prior of Augsburg (1507) and vicar general of the Congregation of Upper Germany (1511). Initially, having believed in a certain respect for Luther, he judged him very favorably, as appears from his *Consilium cuiusdam ex animo cupientis esse consultum et R. Pontificis dignitatis et christianae religionis tranquillitatis*, published anonymously in 1520; but when he realized Luther’s rebellious spirit, he changed his opinion and fought against him, even distancing himself from the humanists to whom he had previously been so attached.
Of his writings, only an *Oratio funebris in deposizione gloriosissimi imperatoris Caesaris Maximiani* (Augsburg 1519), an *Epistola* to the humanist Willibald Pirksheimer (ed. in J. Flemmann, *Documenta litteraria varii argumenti*, Altdorf 1758, pp. 87-93), and the *Consilium* survive. The latter, often reprinted and translated, was attributed until 1806 to Erasmus but was definitively claimed for Faber by Paulus (N. Paulus, *Der Dominikaner J. F. und sein Glaubchen über Luther*, in *Historisches polit. Jahrbuch*, 17 [1866], pp. 39-60).