JOSIAS See also:

• JOSIAS SIMLER (1530-1576)

SIMLER (1530-1576)  , author of the first See also:

• BOOK

book See also:

• RELATING

relating solely to the See also:

• ALPS

Alps, was the son of the former See also:

• PRIOR (from Lat. prior—former, and hence superior, through O. Fr. priour)
• PRIOR, MATTHEW (1664-1721)

prior of the Cistercian See also:

• CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

convent of Kappel (See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

Canton of See also:

• ZURICH
• ZURICH (Fr. Zurich; Ital. Zurigo)

Zurich), and was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Kappel, where his See also:

• FATHER

father was the See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant pastor and schoolmaster till his See also:

• DEATH

death in 1557 . In 1544 See also:

• SIMLER, JOSIAS (1530-1576)

Simler went to Zurich to continue his See also:

• EDUCATION

education under his godfather, the celebrated reformer, Heinrich See also:

• BULLINGER, HEINRICH (1504-1575)

Bullinger . After having completed his studies at See also:

• BASEL (Fr. Bale)
• BASEL (Fr. Belle, but Basle is a wholly erroneous form; Ital. Basilea)
• BASEL, CONFESSION OF
• BASEL, COUNCIL OF

Basel and Strasburg, he returned to ?iirich, and acted as a pastor in the neighbouring villages . In 1552 he was made See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of New Testament exegesis at the Carolinum at Zurich, and in 156o became professor of See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology . In 1559 he had his first attack of See also:

• GOUT

gout, a complaint which finally killed him . In 1555 he published a new edition of See also:

• CONRAD (d. 955)
• CONRAD, JOSEPH (1856– )
• CONRAD, or KONRAD (M. H. Ger. Kuonrdl, i.e. " keen in counsel," Lat. Conradus, It. Corrado, cf. the A.S. Ccenred)

Conrad See also:

• GESNER
• GESNER, ABRAHAM (1797-1864)
• GESNER, JOHANN MATTHIAS (1691—1761)

Gesner's See also:

• EPITOME
• EPITOME (Gr. lircroui, from isrLTEµveW, to cut short)

Epitome of his Bibliotheca universalis (a See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of all authors who had written in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek, Latin or See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew), in 1574 a new edition of the Bibliotheca itself, and in 157'5 an annotated edition of the Antonine Itinerary . About 1551 he conceived the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of making his native See also:

• LAND

land better known by translating into Latin parts of the See also:

• GREAT

great Chronik of Johann See also:

• STUMPF, JOHANN (1500-1576)

Stumpf . With this view he collected materials, and in 1574 published a specimen of his intended See also:

• WORK

work in the shape of a monograph on the Canton of the See also:

• VALAIS (Ger. Wallis, Ital. Vallese)

Valais . He published in the same See also:

• VOLUME

volume a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general description of the Alps, as the Introduction to his projected work on the several Swiss Cantons . In this See also:

• TREATISE

treatise, entitled De Alpibus commentarius, he collected all that the classical authors had written on the Alps, adding a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• DEAL

deal of material collected from his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends and correspondents . This Commentarius is the first work exclusively devoted to the Alps, and sums up the knowledge of that region possessed in the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . It was republished by the Elzevirs at See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden in 1633, and again at Zurich in 1735, while an elaborate annotated edition (prepared by Mr Coolidge), with See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation, notes and appendices, appeared at See also:

• GRENOBLE

Grenoble in 1904 .

Another fragment of his vast See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan was the work entitled De Helvetiorum republica, which appeared at Zurich in 1576, just before his death . It was regarded as the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief authority on Swiss constitutional matters up to 1798 . See lives by G. von Wyss (Zurich, 1855), and in Mr Coolidge's book, pp. cxvvii.-clviii . (W . A . B .