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See also:SIMON See also:GRYNAEUS (1493-1541)
, See also:German See also:scholar and theologian of the See also:Reformation, son of See also:Jacob Gryner, a Swabian See also:peasant, was See also:born in 1493 at Vehringen, in See also:Hohenzollern-See also:Sigmaringen
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He adopted the name See also:Grynaeus from the epithet of See also:Apollo in See also:Virgil
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He was a schoolfellow with See also:Melanchthon at See also:Pforzheim, whence he went to the university of See also:Vienna, distinguishing himself there as a Latinist and Grecian
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His See also:appointment as See also:rector of a school at Buda was of no See also:long See also:con-' tinuance; his views excited the zeal of the See also:Dominicans and he was thrown into See also:prison
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Gaining his freedom at the instance of Hungarian magnates, he visited Melanchthon at See also:Wittenberg, and in 1524 became See also:professor of See also:Greek at the university of See also:Heidelberg, being in addition professor of Latin from 1526
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His Zwinglian view of the See also:Eucharist disturbed his relations withhis See also:Catholic colleagues
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From 1526 he had corresponded with See also:Oecolampadius, who in 1529 invited him to See also:Basel, which See also:Erasmus had just See also:left
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The university being disorganized, Grynaeus pursued his studies, and in 1531 visited See also:England for See also:research in See also:libraries
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A commendatory See also:letter from Erasmus gained him the See also:good offices of See also:Sir See also: In 1534 See also:Duke See also:Ulrich called him to See also:Wurttemberg in aid of the reformation there, as well as for the reconstitution of the university of See also:Tubingen, which he carried out in See also:concert with Ambrosius Blarer of Constanz . Two years later he had an active See also:hand in the so-called First Helvetic See also:Confession (the See also:work of Swiss divines at Basel in See also:January 1536); also in the conferences which urged the Swiss See also:acceptance of the Wittenberg See also:Concord (1536) . At the See also:Worms See also:conference (1540) between Catholics and Protestants he was the See also:sole representative of the Swiss churches, being deputed by the authorities of Basel . He was carried off suddenly in his See also:prime by the See also:plague at Basel on the 1st of See also:August 1541 . A brilliant scholar, a mediating theologian, and personally of lovable temperament, his See also:influence was See also:great and wisely exercised . Erasmus and See also:Calvin were among his correspondents . His See also:chief See also:works were Latin versions of See also:Plutarch, See also:Aristotle and See also:Chrysostom . His son See also:SAMUEL (1539–1599) was professor of See also:jurisprudence at Basel . His See also:nephew THOMAS (1512?–1564) was professor at Basel and See also:minister in See also:Baden, and left four distinguished sons of whom JOHANN See also:JAKOB (1540–1617) was a See also:leader in the religious affairs of Basel . The last of the See also:direct descendants of See also:Simon Grynaeus was his namesake SIMON (1725–1799), translator into German of See also:French and See also:English See also:anti-deistical works, and author of a version of the See also:Bible in See also:modern German (1776) . See See also:Bayle's Dictionnaire; W . T . Streuber in Hauck's Realencyklopadie (1899) ; and for bibliography, Streuber's S . Grynaei epistolae (1847) . (A . |
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