JUSTUS See also:MENIUS (1494-1558)
, Lutheran theologian, whose name is Latinized from See also:Jost or Just (i.e
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Jodocus) Menig, was See also:born at See also:Fulda, of poor but respectable parents, on the 13th of See also:December 1499
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Entering the university of See also:Erfurt in 1514, he took the See also:bachelor's degree in 1515, the See also:master's in 1516
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At this 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, in association with the keen humanists See also:Conrad See also:Mutian, Crotus Rubeanus and Eoban See also:Hess, he was of sceptical tendency; moving to See also:Wittenberg in 1519, he became evangelical under the teaching of See also:Melanchthon and the See also:preaching of See also:Luther
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After travel in See also:Italy (1521-1522) he was appointed (1523) See also:town's preacher at Wittenberg, but was soon transferred to the See also:charge of See also:Muhlberg, under Erfurt
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Here he published his commentary on Acts (1524) and married
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He resigned his charge (1525) and opened a school at Erfurt, but the town See also:council insisted on his resuming his See also:ministry, appointing him preacher in St 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', Erfurt
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He worked in See also:conjunction with Luther's friend, See also:John See also:Lange, and was opposed by the See also:Franciscans under Conrad Kling
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Hence he See also:left for See also:Gotha (1528), resumed teaching, and enjoyed the friendship of See also:Friedrich See also:Myconius
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See also:Duke John of See also:Saxony had placed him on the See also:commission for 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 visitation in Thuringia, and in 1529 appointed him pastor and See also:superintendent at See also:Eisenach, where for eighteen years he administered church affairs with tact, and fostered the spread of See also:education
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In 1529 he brought out his Oeconomia christiana (a See also:treatise in See also:German, on the right ordering of a See also:Christian See also:household) with a See also:dedication to the duchess Sybil of Saxony and a See also:preface by Luther
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His tractate, written in See also:concert with Myconius, controverting Der Wiedertliufer Lehre and Geheimniss (1530) was also prefaced by Luther
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The reversion to the See also:Roman communion of his old friend Crotus led to his See also:mordant Responsio See also:amici (1532, anon.) to the Apologia (1531) of Crotus
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He took his See also:part in the theological disputations of the time, at See also:Marburg (1529), the See also:Concordia at Wittenberg (1536), the See also:Convention at See also:Schmalkalden (1537), the discussions at See also:Hagenau' and Worn;s (1540)
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His tractate (1542) against the permission of See also:bigamy
the See also:case of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip of See also:Hesse was not allowed to be printed (the See also:manuscript is in the See also:Heidelberg university library)
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In 1542 he removed to See also:Muhlhausen, being appointed by Duke See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry of Saxony for the ordering of the church there
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On the See also:death of Myconius (1546) he was entrusted with the oversight of Gotha, in addition to that of Eisenach; to Gotha he returned in 1547• The See also:remainder of his See also:life was not happy
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He was against the See also:Leipzig See also:Interim (1548) with its See also:compromise on some See also:Catholic usages, and was involved in controversies and quarrels; with Georgius See also:Merula, against whom he maintained the need of See also:exorcism in
See also:baptism; with See also:Osiander's adherents in the See also:matter of See also:justification; with his colleague, See also:Nicholas von See also:Amsdorf, to whom he had resigned the Eisenach superintendency; with See also:Flacius Illyricus, and others
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He lost favour with Duke John See also:Frederic of Saxony; See also:fell into See also:bad See also:health, was deposed (1555) from his offices, and was disappointed in his hopes of being reinstated, after the colloquy at Eisenach (1556)
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He died at Leipzig on the 11th of See also:August 1558
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He was twice married, and had several sons, of whom See also:Eusebius held a See also:chair of See also:philosophy at Wittenberg, and married Melanchthon's See also:grand-daughter, See also:Anna Sabinus
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See also:Schmidt gives a full bibliography of the numerous writings of See also:Menius, who translated several of Luther's biblical commentaries into German
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His Oeconomia was reprinted in 1855
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See G
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Schmidt, Justus Menius, der Reformator Thiiringens (1867) ; Wagenmann, in Allgemeine deutsche Biog
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(1885) ; G
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Kawerau, in Hauck's Realencyklopadie (1903)
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