Simon Sulzer
Simon Sulzer (23 September 1508 – 22 June 1585) was a
Life
Sulzer was born in Schattenhalb, the child of a priest. He was educated in Bern and Lucerne. The sudden death of his father, the provost of Interlaken, forced him to turn to manual labor to support himself. He worked as a barber in Strasbourg and attended lectures by Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito. He moved to Basel in 1531, where he associated with Simon Grynaeus. Here he worked as a proofreader at the print shop of Johann Heerwagen and was also employed as a teacher. From 1533 he worked in Bern in education and proved his worth in the schools.
On the initiative of the Bern town council, he pursued additional studies in 1537 and took a master's degree. As a supporter of the
He received a post in Basel in 1549, first as pastor of the Peterskirche, then as a professor and as
He played a major role in a mediatory role that led to the
Further reading
- Burnett, Amy Nelson (2006), Teaching the Reformation: ministers and their message in Basel, 1529-1629. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Herzog, J. W. (1778). Athenae rauricae: Sive catalogus professorum Academiae Basiliensis ab A. MCCCCLX ad A. MDCCLXXVIII. Cum brevi singulorum biographia. Adjecta est recensio omnium eiusdem Academiae rectorum. Basel: Car. Aug. Serini. p. 26. OCLC 43215846.
- Linder, Gottlieb (1890), Simon Sulzer und sein Antheil an der Reformation im Lande Baden, sowie an den Unionsbestrebungen. Heidelberg: C. Winter.
- Lindner, J. R., Lebensabriß des Simon Sulzer. Zeitschrift für die gesamte lutherische Theologie und Kirche, 30 (1869): 666–689.
- Realenzyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche. vol. 19, pp. 159–162.
External links
- Paul Tschackert (1894), "Sulzer, Simon", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 37, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 154–155
- Erich Wenneker. "SULZER, Simon". Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. XI. Bautz. cols. 252–255.
- Simon Sulzer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project