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LEO JUD (1482–1542)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 535 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUD (1482–1542)  , known to his contemporaries as Meister Leu, Swiss reformer, was
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born in
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Alsace and educated at
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Basel, where after a course in
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medicine he turned to the study of
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theology . This
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change was due to the
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influence of
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Zwingli whose colleague at
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Zurich
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Jud became after serving for four years (1518–1522) as pastor of
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Einsiedeln . His
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chief activity was as a translator; he was the leading spirit in the
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translation of the Zurich
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Bible and also made a Latin version of the Old Testament . He died at Zurich on the r9th of
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June 1542 . See
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Life by C .
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Pestalozzi (186o);
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art. in
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Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopodie, vol. ix . (19o1) .

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