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GRYNAEUS (or. GRYNER), JOHANN See also:JAKOB (1540-1617)  , Swiss See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born on the 1st of See also:October 1540 at See also:Bern . His See also:father, See also:Thomas (1512–1564), was for a See also:time See also:professor of See also:ancient See also:languages at See also:Basel and Bern, but afterwards became pastor of Roteln in See also:Baden . He was See also:nephew of the more eminent See also:Simon See also:Grynaeus (q.v.) . Johann was educated at Basel, and in 1559 received an See also:appointment as See also:curate to his father . In 1563 he proceeded to See also:Tubingen for the purpose of completing his theological studies, and in 1565 he returned to Roteln as successor to his father . Here he See also:felt compelled to abjure the Lutheran See also:doctrine of the See also:Lord's Supper, and to renounce the See also:formula concordiae . Called in 1575 to the See also:chair of Old Testament exegesis at Basel, he became involved in unpleasant controversy with Simon Sulzer and other champions of Lutheran orthodoxy; and in 1584 he was glad to accept an invitation to assist in the restoration of the university of See also:Heidelberg . Returning to Basel in 1586, after Simon Sulzer's See also:death, as antistes or See also:superintendent of the See also:church there and as professor of the New Testament, he exerted for upwards of twenty-five years a considerable See also:influence upon both the church and the See also:state affairs of that community, and acquired a wide reputation as a skilful theologian of the school of See also:Ulrich See also:Zwingli . Amongst other labours he helped to reorganize the gymnasium in 1588 . Five years before his death he became totally See also:blind, but continued to preach and lecture till his death on the 13th of See also:August 1617 . His many See also:works include commentaries on various books of the Old and New Testament, Theologica theoremata et problemata (1588), and a collection of patristic literature entitled Monumenta S. patrum orthodoxographa (2 vols., fol., 1569) .

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