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EBER, PAUL (1511-1569)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 840 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EBER, See also:PAUL (1511-1569) , See also:German theologian, was See also:born at See also:Kitzingen in See also:Franconia, and was educated at See also:Nuremberg and See also:Wittenberg, where he became the See also:close friend of See also:Philip See also:Melanchthon. In 1541 he was appointed See also:professor of Latin See also:grammar at Wittenberg, and in 1557 professor of the Old Testament. His range of learning was wide, and he published a handbook of Jewish See also:history, a See also:historical See also:calendar intended to supersede the See also:Roman See also:Saints' Calendar, and a revision of the Latin Old Testament. In the theological conflict of the See also:time he played a large See also:part, doing what he could to mediate between the extremists. From 1559 to the close of his See also:life he was See also:superintendent-See also:general of the electorate of See also:Saxony. He attained some fame as a hymn-writer, his best-known See also:composition being " Wenn wir in hichsten Nothen sein." He died_ at Wittenberg on the loth of See also:December 1569.

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