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SIMLER, JOSIAS (1530-1576)

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SIMLER, JOSIAS (1530-1576) , author of the first See also:book See also:relating solely to the See also:Alps, was the son of the former See also:prior of the Cistercian See also:convent of Kappel (See also:Canton of See also:Zurich), and was See also:born at Kappel, where his See also:father was the See also:Protestant pastor and schoolmaster till his See also:death in 1557. In 1544 Simler went to Zurich to continue his See also:education under his godfather, the celebrated reformer, Heinrich See also:Bullinger. After having completed his studies at See also:Basel and Strasburg, he returned to ?iirich, and acted as a pastor in the neighbouring villages. In 1552 he was made See also:professor of New Testament exegesis at the Carolinum at Zurich, and in 156o became professor of See also:theology. In 1559 he had his first attack of See also:gout, a complaint which finally killed him. In 1555 he published a new edition of See also:Conrad See also:Gesner's See also:Epitome of his Bibliotheca universalis (a See also:list of all authors who had written in See also:Greek, Latin or See also:Hebrew), in 1574 a new edition of the Bibliotheca itself, and in 157'5 an annotated edition of the Antonine Itinerary. About 1551 he conceived the See also:idea of making his native See also:land better known by translating into Latin parts of the See also:great Chronik of Johann See also:Stumpf. With this view he collected materials, and in 1574 published a specimen of his intended See also:work in the shape of a monograph on the Canton of the See also:Valais. He published in the same See also:volume a See also:general description of the Alps, as the Introduction to his projected work on the several Swiss Cantons. In this See also:treatise, entitled De Alpibus commentarius, he collected all that the classical authors had written on the Alps, adding a See also:good See also:deal of material collected from his See also:friends and correspondents. This Commentarius is the first work exclusively devoted to the Alps, and sums up the knowledge of that region possessed in the 16th See also:century. It was republished by the Elzevirs at See also:Leiden in 1633, and again at Zurich in 1735, while an elaborate annotated edition (prepared by Mr Coolidge), with See also:French See also:translation, notes and appendices, appeared at See also:Grenoble in 1904.

Another fragment of his vast See also:

plan was the work entitled De Helvetiorum republica, which appeared at Zurich in 1576, just before his death. It was regarded as the See also:chief authority on Swiss constitutional matters up to 1798. See lives by G. von Wyss (Zurich, 1855), and in Mr Coolidge's book, pp. cxvvii.-clviii. (W. A. B.

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