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Simon Grynaeus (born in Veringendorf, close to Sigmaringen in 1493 or 1494, † on August 1st 1541) is a humanistic theologist in favor of the Réforme.

Biography

Wire of a peasant of Souabe of the name of Gryner Jacob, it adopted the pen name of Grynaeus , epithet of the god Apollon in the poetry of Virgile. He was a school-fellow of Melanchthon to the seminar of Pforzheim, then he went to study theology with the Université of Vienna, where he showed a particular gift for the Latin and the old Greek . Appointed vice-chancellor of a school with Buda, he was condemned and thrown in prison at the instigation of the Dominicains for his standpoint in favor of the reformed movement.

Released thanks to the Hungarian intercession noble, it gained the university of Wittenberg, then directed by his friend Melanchthon, then in 1524 obtained the pulpit of Greek to the Université of Heidelberg, and jointly that of Latin two years later. However, there still, its point of view on the Eucharistie, inspired of Zwingli, attracted baffles with his/her colleagues to him Catholique S. In 1529 Johannes Œkolampad invited it to be established with Basle. In September 1526, Grynaeus had discovered in the library of the abbey of Lorsch the manuscripts of five unknown books of the stories ( Ab urbe condita ) of Tite-Live, which it recopied and communicated to the printer bâlois Johann Froben for its edition of Tite-Live of 1531. To the university of the city, Grynaeus gave conferences on the Rhétorique of Aristote. Though diverging from Érasme in the plan of the religious doctrines, it translated at the request of this last a homélie of Jean Chrysostome on the 1st epistle with the Corinthians (1530). Recommended to Thomas More by Érasme, it left in 1531 to England to research manuscripts.

Charged with collecting the opinion of the reformers of continental Europe on the question of the divorce of Henry VIII, it returned to Basle right in time to attend the anguish of Oecolampadius (November 24th, 1531). Starting from this date, it was named, in addition to its pulpit of old Greek, supernumerary professor of theology, and gave several conferences on the Exégèse of the New Testament.

In 1534, the duke Ulrich VI of Wurtemberg called it in its stronghold of Wurtemberg to propagate the Reform there, and for there refonder the university of Tübingen, which it did with the support of Ambrosius Blarer of Constance. It was also, in January 1536, one of the writers of the Swiss Confession and took part in the conferences which invited the Swiss ones to subscribe to the Concorde of Wittenberg (1536).

Elected by the Church of Basle at the time of the Diet of Worms (1540), it was the only one there representing reformed churches of Switzerland. It was carried in Basle by the epidemic of Black Death at the summer 1541.

Works

Well-read man shining, moderated reformer, it had, thanks to its enjoué and pleasant character, a great influence on the introduction of religious peace. It counted Erasme and Calvin among his correspondents.

De Mundo Aristotelis and Scholion doctissimum in Aristotelis libellum of Mundo Simone Grynaeo authore (March 1533), 1 vol. in-8°, Basle, impr. Johannes Walder.
Στοικειον βιϐλιον… in Euclidis Geometriae elementa Græca. Adiecta præfatiuncula in qua of disciplinis mathematicis nonnihil. Simon Grynæus. (1533) - Basle, impr. Johann Herwagen (Basileae: apud Ioan. Hervagium). First edition printed in Greek of the Elements of Euclide.
Organon Ὠϱγανον, η ἡ της φιλοσοφιας χειρ (1536), Basle, impr. Johann Bebel, 1 vol. in-4°.
Aristotelis. Virtutibus libellus planes aureus,… per Simonem Grynaeum , (March 1539), Basle, impr. Robert Winter, 1 vol. in-8°.
in Ptolemaei magnae constructionis libros Graecos (1538), Basle
Chrysostomi in priorem AD Corinthios , Basle
S. Grynaei epistolae (1847), ED. Streuber

Cf the Dictionary of Pierre Bayle; WT Streuber in the Realencyklopädie of Albert Hauck (1899) ----

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