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GLASSIUS, SALOMO (1593-1656)

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GLASSIUS, SALOMO (1593-1656) , theologian and biblical critic, was See also:born at See also:Sondershausen, in the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, on the loth of May 1593. In 1612 he entered the university of See also:Jena. In 1615, with the See also:idea of studying See also:law, he moved to See also:Wittenberg. In consequence of an illness, however, he returned to Jena after a See also:year. Here, as a student of See also:theology under Johann See also:Gerhard, he directed his See also:attention See also:GLASTONBURY especially to See also:Hebrew and the cognate dialects; in 1619 he was made an " adjunctus " of the philosophical See also:faculty, and some See also:time afterwards he received an See also:appointment to the See also:chair of Hebrew. From 1625 to 1638 he was See also:superintendent in Sondershausen; but shortly after the See also:death of Gerhard (1637) he was, in accordance with Gerhard's last wish, appointed to succeed him at Jena. In 164o, however, at the See also:earnest invitation of See also:Duke Ernest the Pious, he removed to See also:Gotha as See also:court preacher and See also:general superintendent in the See also:execution of important reforms which had been initiated in the ecclesiastical and educational establishments of the duchy. The delicate duties attached to this See also:office he discharged with tact and See also:energy; and in the " syncretistic " controversy, by which See also:Protestant See also:Germany was so See also:long vexed, he showed an unusual See also:combination of firmness with liberality, of See also:loyalty to the past with a just regard to the demands of the See also:present and the future. He died on the 27th of See also:July 1656. His See also:principal See also:work, Philologia sacra (1623), marks the transition from the earlier views on questions of biblical See also:criticism to those of the school of Spener. It was more than once reprinted during his lifetime, and appeared in a new and revised See also:form, edited by J. A.

Dathe (1731–1791) and G. L. See also:

Bauer at See also:Leipzig. Glassius succeeded Gerhard as editor of the See also:Weimar Bibelwerk, and wrote the commentary on the poetical books of the Old Testament for that publication. A See also:volume of his Opuscula was printed at See also:Leiden in 1700. See the See also:article in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie.

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