 Wenzel Link, preacher at Nuremberg, former professor and dean of the theological faculty at Wittenberg, who was elected his successor, cast his lot with Luther, whose views were endorsed at a chapter of the Saxon province held in January, 1522, at Wittenberg.In 1523 Link resigned his office and became a Lutheran preacher at Altenberg, where he introduced the Reformation and married.In 1528 he went as preacher to Nuremberg, where he died in 1547.