, the eldest of a family who have made some figure in Swisserland,
, the
eldest of a family who have made some figure in Swisserland, was a native of Biberach, in Suabia, where he was
born in 1533. He imbibed the principles of the reformation from CEcolampadius, and became himself a preacher
in various reformed churches. In 1576 the magistracy of
Basil bestowed the rank of citizenship on him and his
posterity, and in 1581 he was appointed professor of Hebrew in that city. He had studied medicine and law, as
well as divinity, but confined himself chiefly to the latter,
which he taught for many years at Basil, where he died in
1596. He wrote many funeral discourses, or “consciones
funebres,
” as they were called, taken from the Old and New
Testament, which were printed at Basle, in 1752, and
some dialogues in the German language. We have seen
only a part of the former, entitled “Consciones Funebres,
”
Hanov.