Died: March 21, 1541, Stettin, Germany; some suspected he was poisoned by his enemies.
Decius seems to have been a native of Hof, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, and to have originally been called Tech. He became a monk, and was in 1519 Probst of the cloister at Steterburg, near Wolfenbüttel. Inclining to Martin Luther’s positions, he left Steterburg in July, 1522, and went to Brunswick, where he was appointed a master in the St. Katherine and Egidien School. In 1523, he was invited by the burgesses of Stettin to work there as an evangelical preacher along with Paulus von Rhode. He became preacher at the Church of St. Nicholas; was probably instituted by the town council in 1256, when von Rhode was instituted at St. Jacob’s; and at the visitation in 1535 was recognized as pastor of St. Nicholas’.
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