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Oswald Myconius (
1488 –
14 October,
1552) was a follower of
Huldrych Zwingli.
He was born at
Lucerne,
Switzerland. His family name was Geisshüsler, and his father was a miller; hence he was also called
Molitoris (Latin
molitor, "miller"). The name
Myconius seems to have been given him by
Erasmus; it's a translated Greek name from the original Swiss surname. From the school at Rottweil, on the
Neckar, he went to the
University of Basel to study classics. From
1514 he obtained teaching posts at Basel, where he married, and made the acquaintance of Erasmus and of
Hans Holbein, the painter. In 1516 he was called, as schoolmaster, to
Zürich, where (1518) he attached himself to the reforming party of Zwingli. This led to his being transferred to Lucerne, and again (1523) reinstated at Zürich.
On the death of Zwingli (1531) he moved to
Basel, where he held the office of town's preacher, and (till 1541) the chair of
New Testament exegesis. In confessional matters he was for a union of all
Protestants; though a Zwinglian, his readiness to compromise with the advocates of consubstantiation gave him trouble with the hard-line Zwinglians. He had, however, a distinguished follower in
Theodore Bibliander.
Among his several tractates, the most important is
De H Zwinglii vita el obitu (1536), translated into English by Henry Bennet (1561). See
Melchior Adam,
Vita theologorum (1620); M Kirch-hofer,
O. Myconius (1813);
KR Hagenbach,
J. Oekolampad und O. Myconius (1859); FM Ledderhose, in
Allgemeine deutsche Biog. (1886); B Riggenbach and Egli, in Hauck's
Realencyklopadie (1903).
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