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ZACHARIAS URSINUS (1534-1583)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 803 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZACHARIAS See also:URSINUS (1534-1583)  , See also:German theologian, and one of the authors of the See also:Heidelberg See also:Catechism (q.v.), was See also:born at See also:Breslau on the 18th of See also:July 1534, and became a See also:disciple of See also:Melanchthon at See also:Wittenberg . He afterwards studied divinity at See also:Geneva under See also:Calvin, and See also:Hebrew at See also:Paris under See also:Jean See also:Mercier . In 1561 he was appointed See also:professor in the Collegium Sapientiae at Heidelberg, where in 1563 at the instance of the elector-See also:palatine, See also:Frederick III., he See also:drew up the Catechism in co-operation with Kaspar Olevian . The See also:death of the elector in 1576 led to the removal of See also:Ursinus, who from 1578 till his death in 1583 occupied a professorial See also:chair at See also:Neustadt-ar.-der-Haardt . His See also:Works were published in 1587-89, and a more See also:complete edition by his son and two of his pupils, Pareus and Reuterus, in 1612 .

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