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Simon Grynaeus (
1493-
August 1,
1541),
German scholar and
theologian of the Reformation, son of Jacob Gryner, a
Swabian peasant, was born in 1493 at Veringendorf, in
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
He adopted the name
Grynaeus from the epithet of
Apollo in
Virgil. He was a school-fellow with
Melanchthon at
Pforzheim, whence he went to the
university of Vienna, distinguishing himself there as a
Latinist and
Grecian. His appointment as rector of a school at
Buda was of no long continuance; his views excited the zeal of the
Dominicans and he was thrown into prison.
Gaining his freedom at the instance of Hungarian magnates, he visited Melanchthon at
Wittenberg, and in 1524 became professor of Greek at the
university of Heidelberg, being in addition professor of Latin from 1526. His Zwinglian view of the
Eucharist disturbed his relations with his
Catholic colleagues. From 1526 he'd corresponded with
John Oecolampadius, who in 1529 invited him to Basel, which
Erasmus had just left. The university being disorganized, Grynaeus pursued his studies, and in 1531 visited England for research in libraries.
A commendatory letter from Erasmus gained him the good offices of
Sir Thomas More. He returned to Basel charged with the task of collecting the opinions of continental reformers on the subject of
Henry VIII's divorce, and was present at the death of Oecolampadius (Nov. 24, 1531). He now, while holding the chair of Greek, was appointed extraordinary professor of theology, and gave
exegetical lectures on the
New Testament.
In
1534 Duke Ulrich called him to
Württemberg in aid of the reformation there, as well as for the reconstitution of the
university of Tübingen, which he carried out in concert with
Ambrosius Blarer of Constanz. Two years later he'd an active hand in the so-called
First Helvetic Confession (the work of Swiss divines at Basel in January 1536); also in the conferences which urged the Swiss acceptance of the Wittenberg Concord (1536).
At the Wörms conference (1540) between Catholics and Protestants he was the sole representative of the Swiss churches, being deputed by the authorities of Basel. He was carried off suddenly in his prime by
the plague at Basel on the 1st of August 1541. A brilliant scholar, a mediating theologian, and personally of lovable temperament, his influence was great and wisely exercised. Erasmus and
Calvin were among his correspondents. His chief works were Latin versions of
Plutarch,
Aristotle and
Chrysostom.
His son
Samuel (1539-1599) was professor of jurisprudence at Basel. His nephew
Thomas (1512?-1564) was professor at Basel and minister in Baden, and left four distinguished sons of whom
Johann Jakob was a leader in the religious affairs of Basel. The last of the direct descendants of Simon Grynaeus was his namesake
Simon (1725-1799), translator into German of French and English anti-
deistical works, and author of a version of the Bible in modern German (1776).
See
Pierre Bayle's
Dictionnaire; WT Streuber in
Hauck's
Realencyklopädie (1899); and for bibliography, Streuber's
S. Grynaei epistolae (1847).
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