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JUD, LEO (1482–1542)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 535 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUD, See also:LEO (1482–1542) , known to his contemporaries as Meister Leu, Swiss reformer, was See also:born in See also:Alsace and educated at See also:Basel, where after a course in See also:medicine he turned to the study of See also:theology. This See also:change was due to the See also:influence of See also:Zwingli whose colleague at See also:Zurich Jud became after serving for four years (1518–1522) as pastor of See also:Einsiedeln. His See also:chief activity was as a translator; he was the leading spirit in the See also:translation of the Zurich See also:Bible and also made a Latin version of the Old Testament. He died at Zurich on the r9th of See also:June 1542. See See also:Life by C. See also:Pestalozzi (186o); See also:art. in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopodie, vol. ix. (19o1).

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