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JOHN GAU (c. 1495–? 1553)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 530 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:GAU (c. 1495–? 1553)  , Scottish translator, was See also:born at See also:Perth towards the See also:close of the 15th See also:century . He was educated in St Salvator's See also:College at St See also:Andrews . He appears to have been in See also:residence at See also:Malmo in 1533, perhaps as See also:chaplain to the Scots community there . In that See also:year See also:John Hochstraten, the exiled See also:Antwerp printer, issued a See also:book by See also:Gau entitled: The Richt vay to the Kingdome of Heuine, of which the See also:chief See also:interest is that it is the first Scottish book written on the See also:side of the Reformers . It is a See also:translation of Christiern See also:Pedersen's Den rettevey till Hiemmerigis Rige (Antwerp, 1531), for the most See also:part See also:direct, but showing intimate knowledge in places of the See also:German edition of Urbanus Rhegius . Only one copy of Gau's See also:text is extant, in the library of Britwell See also:Court, Bucks . It has been assumed that_all the copies were shipped from Malmo to See also:Scotland, and that the See also:cargo was intercepted by the Scottish See also:officers on the look out for the heretical See also:works which were printed abroad in large See also:numbers . This may explain the silence of all the historians of the Reformed See also:ChurchSee also:Knox, See also:Calderwood and Spottiswood . Gau married in 1536 a Malmo See also:citizen's daughter, bearing the See also:Christian name Birgitta . She died in 1551, and he in or about 1553 . The first reference to the Richt Vay appeared in See also:Chalmers's See also:Caledonia, ii . 616 .

Chalmers, who was the owner of the unique See also:

volume before it passed into the Britwell Court collection, considered it to be an See also:original See also:work . See also:David See also:Laing printed extracts for the See also:Bannatyne See also:Club (See also:Miscellany, iii., 1855) . The See also:evidence that the book is a translation was first given by Sonnenstein See also:Wendt in a See also:paper " Om Reformatorerna i Malmo," in Rordam's Ny Kirkehistoriske Samlinger, ii . (See also:Copenhagen, 1860) . A See also:complete edition was edited by A . F . See also:Mitchell for the Scottish Text Society (1888) . See also Lonmer's See also:Patrick See also:Hamilton .

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