, usually ranked among the German reformers, was born Sept. 28, 1529,
, usually ranked among the German reformers, was born Sept.
28, 1529, at Schonaw near Wittemberg, at which university he was educated, and where he contracted an acquaintance with Melancthon, and while he was studying the
scriptures in their original languages, imbibed the principles of the reformation. In 1555 he went into Silesia,
where the senate of Grunbergue invited him to superintend a school newly erected in that city. This offer, by
Melancthon' s advice, he accepted in the following year,
and raised the school to a very high degree of reputation.
Melancthon had so good an opinion of him as to declare
that no young man could be supposed unfit for a university, who had been educated under Bucholtzer. Nor was
he less celebrated as a preacher; and upon account of his
services in promoting the reformation, enjoyed the favour
and patronage of Catherine, widow of Henry duke of
Brunswick, Ernest prince of Anhalt, and other persons of
rank. He died at Freistad in Silesia, Oct. 14, 1584. He
composed a chronology from the beginning of the world to
the year 1580, under the title of “Isagoge chronologica,
”
which was often reprinted.