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MACALPINE (or MACCABEUS), JOHN (d. 1557)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 191 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MACALPINE (or MACCABEUS), See also:JOHN (d. 1557)  , See also:Protestant theologian, was See also:born in See also:Scotland about the beginning of the 16th See also:century, and graduated at some Scottish university . From 1532 to 1534 he was See also:prior of the Dominican See also:convent of See also:Perth; but having in the latter See also:year been summoned with See also:Alexander See also:Ales (q.v.) and others to See also:answer for See also:heresy before the See also:bishop of See also:Ross, he fled to See also:England, where he was granted letters of denization on the 7th of See also:April 1537, and married See also:Agnes Macheson, a See also:fellow-See also:exile for See also:religion; her See also:sister See also:Elizabeth became the wife of See also:Miles See also:Coverdale . The reaction of 1539 made England a doubtful See also:refuge, and on the 25th of See also:November 1540 See also:Macalpine matriculated at the university of See also:Wittenberg . He had already graduated B.A. at See also:Cologne, and in 1542 proceeded to his doctorate at Wittenberg . In that year, being now known as Maccabeus, he accepted See also:Christian III.'s offer of the See also:chair of See also:theology at the university of See also:Copenhagen, which had been endowed out of the spoils of the See also:Church . See also:Melanchthon spoke well of Macalpine, and with See also:Peter Plade (See also:Palladius), who had also studied at Wittenberg, Macalpine took a prominent See also:part in See also:building up the Lutheran Church of See also:Denmark . A See also:joint exposure by Plade and Macalpine of See also:Osiander's errors was published in 1552 and reprinted at See also:Leipzig and Copenhagen in 1768; and Macalpine was one of the four translators of See also:Luther's See also:German See also:Bible into Danish . He also encouraged See also:Sir See also:David See also:Lindsay, who visited him in 1548, to publish his Monarchic, and persuaded Christian III. to inter-cede with See also:Queen See also:Mary Tudor on behalf of Coverdale and invite him to Denmark . Macalpine died at Copenhagen on the 6th of See also:December 1557• See Dict . Nat . Biog. and authorities there cited; Corpus reformatorum, iii . (1066), iv .

771, 793; Foerstemann, See also:

Album academiae vitebergensis (1841), p . 186, and See also:Leber decanorum (1838), p . 32; Rockwell, See also:Die Doppelehe See also:des Landgrafen Philipp (1904), pp . 114–116; Letters and Papers of See also:Henry VIII . (1537), 1 . 1103 (12); (1542), pp . 46,218 . (A . F .

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