See also: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
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas (1512–1564), was for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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
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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
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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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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
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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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