MYCONIUS, OSWALD (1488-1552)

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MYCONIUS, OSWALD (1488-1552) , Zwinglian divine, was born at Lucerne in 1488. His family name was Geisshiisler; his father was a miller; hence he was also called MoLITORIS. The name

Myconius

MYCONIUS, FRIEDRICH (1490-1546)
MYCONIUS, OSWALD (1488-1552)

seems to have been given him by

Erasmus

ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS (1466–1536)

. From the school at Rottweil, on the Neckar, he went (1510) to the university of Basel, and became a good classic. From 1514 he obtained schoolmaster posts at Basel, where he married, and made the acquaintance of

Erasmus

ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS (1466–1536)

and of Holbein, the painter. In 1516 he was called, as schoolmaster, to Zurich, where (1518) he attached himself to the reforming party of Zwingli. This led to his being transferred to Lucerne, and again (1523) reinstated at Zurich. On the death of Zwingli (1531) he migrated to Basel, and there held the office of town's preacher, and (till 1541) the chair of New Testament exegesis. His spirit was comprehensive; in confessional matters he was for a union of all Protestants; though a Zwinglian, his readiness to compromise with the

advocates

ADVOCATES, FACULTY OF

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

Theodore

Bibliander. He died on the 14th of October 1552.
Among his several tractates, the most important is De H. Zwinglii vita et obitu (1536), translated into English by

Henry

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HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
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, the Eng.
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HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
HENRY, PRINCE OF
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(1858-1896)
HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Bennet (1561). See Melchior

Adam

, Vita theologorum (162o); M. Kirchhofer. 0.

Myconius

MYCONIUS, FRIEDRICH (1490-1546)
MYCONIUS, OSWALD (1488-1552)

(1813); K. R. Hagenbach, J. Oekolampad and O. Myconius (1859); F. M. Ledderhose, in Allgemeine deutsche Biog. (1886) ; B. Riggenbach and Egli, in Hauck's Realencyklopadie (1903).
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