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MYCONIUS, OSWALD (1488-1552)

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MYCONIUS, See also:
OSWALD (c. 605—642)
OSWALD (d. 992)
OSWALD (1488-1552) , Zwinglian divine, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Lucerne in 1488. His See also:

FAMILY

family name was Geisshiisler; his See also:

FATHER

father was a See also:

miller; hence he was also called MoLITORIS. The name Myconius seems to have been given him by See also:

ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS (1466–1536)

Erasmus. From the school at See also:

ROTTWEIL

Rottweil, on the See also:

NECKAR

Neckar, he went (1510) to the university of See also:

Basel, and became a See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good classic. From 1514 he obtained schoolmaster posts at Basel, where he married, and made the acquaintance of Erasmus and of See also:

HOLBEIN, HANS

Holbein, the painter. In 1516 he was called, as schoolmaster, to See also:

Zurich, where (1518) he attached himself to the reforming party of See also:

ZWINGLI, HULDREICH (1484—1531)

Zwingli. This led to his being transferred to Lucerne, and again (1523) reinstated at Zurich. On the See also:

DEATH

death of Zwingli (1531) he migrated to Basel, and there held the See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of See also:

TOWN

town's preacher, and (till 1541) the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of New Testament exegesis. His spirit was comprehensive; in See also:

CONFESSIONAL (Late Lat. confessionale, neut. adj. from confessionalis, " pertaining to confession," Fr. confessional, Ital. confessionale)

confessional matters he was for a See also:

union of all Protestants; though a Zwinglian, his readiness to See also:

COMPROMISE (pronounced compromize; through Fr. from Lat. compromittere)

compromise with the See also:

ADVOCATES, FACULTY OF

advocates of consubstantiation gave him trouble with the Zwinglian stalwarts. He had, however, .a distinguished follower in See also:

Theodore Bibliander. He died on the 14th of See also:

OCTOBER

October 1552. Among his several tractates, the most important is De H.

Zwinglii vita et obitu (1536), translated into See also:

ENGLISH

English by See also:

Henry Bennet (1561). See Melchior See also:

Adam, Vita theologorum (162o); M. Kirchhofer. 0. Myconius (1813); K. R. See also:

HAGENBACH, KARL RUDOLF (1801-1874)

Hagenbach, J. Oekolampad and O. Myconius (1859); F. M. Ledderhose, in Allgemeine deutsche Biog. (1886) ; B.

Riggenbach and Egli, in Hauck's Realencyklopadie (1903). (A.

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