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SLEIDANUS, JOHANNES (15o6-1556)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 241 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SLEIDANUS, JOHANNES (15o6-1556) , German historian, the annalist of the Reformation, was born at Schleiden near Aix-la-Chapelle. He studied ancient languages and literatures at Liege and Cologne, and law and jurisprudence at Paris and Orleans. Whilst among the humanists of Liege, he had adopted
Protestant
  opinions, and entering the service of Cardinal du Bellay, was employed in the futile negotiations of the French court to make an alliance with the German Protestants against the emperor Charles V. In 1542 he settled at Strassburg. Sleidanus had been accustomed to copy all papers bearing upon the Reformation to which he had access, and Martin Bucer, who had seen his collection, proposed to Philip of Hesse to appoint him historian of the Reformation, giving him a salary and access to all necessary documents. After some delay the heads of the league of Schmalkalden agreed to the proposal, and Sleidanus began his
great
 
work
 ,
finishing
  the first volume in 1545. In that year-he was recalled to diplomacy, and went to England in a French embassy to
Henry
  VIII. While there he collected materials for his history. On his return he represented Strassburg at the diets of Frankfort and Worms, and went on to Marburg to explore the archives of Philip of Hesse. The war of the league of Schmalkalden interfered with this
work
 , and also prevented the payment of Sleidanus, who in his difficulties applied to England for aid, and at Cranmer's intercession received a yearly pension from Edward VI., which, however, was not long continued. In 1551 Sleidanus went to the council of Trent as representative from Strassburg, charged also with full powers to act for the imperial cities of Esslingen, Ravensburg, Reutlingen, Biberach and Lindau. He was afterwards appointed professor of law in Strassburg, and finished his
great
  task in 1554, though lack of money and other misfortunes compelled him to delay printing. Sleidanus died in poverty at Strassburg in October 1556. The book appeared in the preceding yearCommentariorum de statu religionis et reipublicae, Carolo V. Caesare, libri XX VI.; it was translated into English by John Daws in 156o and by G. Bohum in 1689. It was so impartial that it pleased no one, not even Melanchthon. It remains the most valuable contemporary history of the times of the Reformation, and contains the largest collection of important documents.
See H. Baumgarten, Ober Sleidanus Leben and Briefwechsel (1878), and Sleidans Briefwechsel (1881); and A. Hasenclever, Sleidan-Studien (
Bonn
 , 1905).


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