Johannes Sleidanus

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Reformation
.

Life

He was born at

Cologne University, and law and jurisprudence at Paris and Orléans
.

Whilst among the

Emperor Charles V. In 1542 he settled in Strasbourg
.

Sleidanus had been accustomed to copy all papers bearing upon the Reformation to which he had access, and

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 Strasbourg at the diets of Frankfurt and Worms, and went on to Marburg
to explore the archives of Philip of Hesse.

The

Edward VI
, which, however, was never paid out.

In 1551 Sleidanus went to the Council of Trent as representative from Strasbourg, charged also with full powers to act for the imperial cities of Esslingen, Ravensburg, Reutlingen, Biberach and Lindau. Soon afterwards he became a civil servant of the city of Strasbourg, and finished his great task in 1554, though lack of money and other misfortunes compelled him to delay printing. Sleidanus died in poverty at Strasbourg in October 1556.

The book appeared in the preceding year, Commentariorum de statu religionis et reipublicae, Carolo V. Caesare, libri XXVI.; it was translated into English by John Daus in 1560 and by

Melanchthon
. It remains a valuable contemporary history of the times of the Reformation, and contains a large collection of documents.

Posthumous

Rue Sleidan in Strasbourg

A street in the Neustadt district of Strasbourg is named after him (Rue Sleidan).

References

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  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sleidanus, Johannes". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This work in turn cites:
    • H. Baumgarten, Über Sleidanus Leben und Briefwechsel (1878)
    • H. Baumgarten, Sleidans Briefwechsel (1885)
    • A. Hasenclever, Sleidan-Studien (Bonn, 1905)
  • A. Kess, Johann Sleidan and the Protestant vision of history, Aldershot: Ashgate 2008
  • E. van der Vekene: Johann Sleidan, Bibliographie seiner gedruckten Werke und der von ihm übersetzten Schriften von Philippe de Comines, Jean Froissart und Claude de Seyssel ; mit einem bibliographischen Anhang zur Sleidan-Forschung, Stuttgart 1996
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