Konrad Pellikan

Konrad Pellikan (

Protestant reformer and Christian Hebraist

Life

Pellikan was bon on 8 January 1478 in

Paulus Scriptoris, a man of considerable general learning.^[2]

He taught

apostate in three languages" was able to begin the study of Hebrew. He had no teacher and no grammar; but Paulus Scriptoris carried him a huge codex of the prophets on his own shoulders all the way from Mainz

.

He learned the letters from the transcription of a few verses in the Star of the Messiah of

Reysch's Margarita philosophica. Hebrew remained a favorite study to the last.^[2]

Pellikan became a priest in 1501 and following entered the Barfüsser convent in Basel in 1502.

Zwingli to become a professor of Greek and Hebrew at the Carolinum in Zürich. Formally throwing off his monk's habit, Pellikan entered on a new life. Here he remained until his death on 6 April 1556.^[2]

Works

Pellikan wrote the Chronikon and also translated Hebrew works into Latin, such as Bahya ben Asher's commentary on the Torah and the work of Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer (Eliezer filius Hircani), the Liber sententiarum Judiacarum, in 1546.^{[citation needed]}

Pellikan's autobiography describes the gradual multiplication of accessible books on the subjects, and he not only studied but translated a vast mass of

Jewish literature being mainly philological. The chief fruit of these studies is the vast commentary on the Bible (Zürich, 7 vols., 1532–1539), which shows a remarkably sound judgment on questions of the text, and a sense for historical as opposed to typological exegesis. Pellikan's scholarship, though not brilliant, was really extensive; his sound sense, and his singularly pure and devoted character gave him a great influence.^[2]

He was remarkably free from the pedantry of the time, as is shown by his views about the use of the German vernacular as a vehicle of culture (Chron. 135, 36). As a theologian his natural affinities were with Zwingli, having grown up to the views of the

Reformation, by the natural progress of his studies and religious life. Thus he never lost his sympathy with humanism and Erasmus.^[2]

Pellikan's Latin autobiography (Das Chronikon des Konrad Pellikan) is one of the most interesting documents of the period. It was first published by Riggenbach in 1877, and in this volume the other sources for his life are registered.[2]

Early modern imprints

De modo legendi et intelligendi Hebraeum. Strasbourg, 1504.
Quadruplex Psalterium. Basel, 1516.
Quadruplex Psalterium Davidis. Strasbourg, 1527.
Comentaria bibliorum. 7 volumes. Zürich, 1532-1539.
Explicatio libelli Ruth. Zürich, 1531.
Index bibliorum. Zürich, 1537.
Ruth: Ein heylig Büchlin des alten Testament, mit einer schoenen kurtzen außlegung. Zürich, 1555.

Modern editions

Die Hauschronik Konrad Pellikans von Rufach. trans. Theodor Vulpinus, Strasbourg: Heitz, 1892.
Das Chronikon des Konrad Pellikan, ed. Bernhard Riggenbach. Basel, 1877

Bibliography

See Erich Wenneker, "Pellikan, Konrad" in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, vol. VII, Herzberg, 1994, col. 180-183, online article

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Chisholm 1911.

Sources

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pellicanus, Conrad". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 70.

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Preceded by ?	Chair of Hebrew at the Carolinum, Zürich 1526–1556	Succeeded by Peter Martyr Vermigli

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