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Benedict Pereira
1535 - 1610 (75 years)
Benedict Pereira was a Spanish Jesuit philosopher, theologian, and exegete. Life Pereira was born at Ruzafa, near Valencia, in Spain. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1552 and taught successively literature, philosophy, theology, and sacred scripture in Rome, where he died.
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John de Pineda
1558 - 1637 (79 years)
John de Pineda was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and exegete. He was a consultor to the Spanish Inquisition and nineteen printed works and six manuscripts of his writing are in existence. Life Pineda was born in Seville. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1572, taught philosophy and theology five years in Seville and Cordova, and specialized in Scripture, which he taught for eighteen years in Cordova, Seville, and Madrid. He held the posts of Provost of the professed house and rector of the college of Seville.
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Wilhelm Theophor Dittenberger
1807 - 1871 (64 years)
Wilhelm Theophor Dittenberger was a German Protestant theologian. He was the father of classical philologist Wilhelm Dittenberger and son-in-law to theologian Karl Daub . The elder Dittenberger was considered to be one of the leaders of liberal Protestantism in Baden.
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Andreas Joseph Fahrmann
1742 - 1802 (60 years)
Andreas Joseph Fahrmann was a German theologian and cleric. Fahrmann was born in Zell am Main near Würzburg, in the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg. He was ordained as a deacon in 1764 and as a priest in 1765. After obtaining his doctorate in 1773, he was the professor of moral theology at the University of Würzburg until 1779, when he was made a canon at , a collegiate church in Würzburg. In 1790, he became auxiliary bishop and titular bishop of Halmiros, now , a position he held until his death in 1802. One of Fahrmann's known works is a theological review of Karl Friedrich Bahrdt's controvers...
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Antony Hickey
1586 - 1641 (55 years)
Antony Hickey was an Irish Franciscan theologian. Life Born at the Barony of Islands, County Clare, Ireland, Ó hÍceadha was a member of a bardic family. He was educated locally and later entered the College of St Antony at Louvain, which had just been founded for Irish Roman Catholic students, and received the Franciscan habit on 1 November 1607. Among his teachers there were Hugh Mac an Bhaird and Hugh Mac Caghwell .
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Joannes Roucourt
1636 - 1676 (40 years)
Joannes Roucourt was a Christian theologian and the parish priest of the Saint-Gudula Church at Brussels from 1667 until 1676. As a pastor, he was known as "father of the poor". Life Ethnicity and education Roucourt was baptized on 7 June 1636 in the Saint-Jacobs church as a son of cloth-merchant Theodorus van Roucourt and Joanne Verwijst. His cousins Dirk Roucourt and Hendrik Rocourt were brewer at Diest and horticulturist at Dordrecht, respectively. His forefathers originated from the Walloon region of Liège and the original family name was most likely "de Rocourt". At the age of 16, Joannes completed his candidate training at the Faculty of Arts of the Old University of Leuven.
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Eugene Allen Noble
1865 - 1948 (83 years)
Eugene Allen Noble was an American academic and Methodist minister. He served as president of three institutions: Centenary University from 1902 to 1908, Goucher College from 1908 to 1911, and Dickinson College from 1911 to 1914. He was also an administrator at the Juilliard School.
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Andreas Benedict Feilmoser
1777 - 1831 (54 years)
Andreas Benedict Feilmoser was a theologian and Biblical scholar. He studied at Salzburg from 1789 to 1794, took a two years' course in philosophy at the University of Innsbruck , and entered the Benedictine Order at Fiecht, Tyrol, in September, 1796. At this abbey he studied the Middle Eastern languages under Dom Georg Maurer, a monk of St. George's Abbey, Villingen. For his theological studies he was sent to Villingen, where he again heard Dom Maurer and Dom Gottfried Lumper, both eminent scholars.
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Nicholas of Methone
Nicholas of Methone was a Byzantine theologian and philosopher who served as the bishop of Methone from around 1150. Nicholas wrote hagiography, hymnody, theology, biblical exegesis and panegyric. His most widely read works were his treatises against the practices and doctrines of the Latin Church, but modern scholarship regards his Refutation of the neoplatonist philosopher Proclus as his greatest work. Nicholas was close to the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and served him as an advisor. He was involved in the major controversies over Bogomilism and the writings of Soterichos Panteugenos .
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George B. Bacon
1836 - 1876 (40 years)
George Blagden Bacon was a United States clergyman and author of texts on religious issues. Bacon was a congregational pastor in Orange, New Jersey. The ministry ran in the Bacons' blood: George B. Bacon was the son of Leonard Bacon and the brother of Leonard Woolsey Bacon, both Congregationalist pastors; two other brothers were also preachers, Thomas Rutherford Bacon of New Haven, and Edward Woolsey Bacon of New London, Connecticut.
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Samuel Andrew
1656 - 1738 (82 years)
Samuel Andrew was an American Congregational clergyman and educator. Early life Samuel was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the eldest child of Samuel and Elizabeth Andrew. The elder Samuel was a merchant and shipmaster and the master builder of the first Harvard Hall. Elizabeth's step-father, a wealthy Salem merchant named George Curwin, paid for the younger Samuel's education.
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Julian of Halicarnassus
450 - 600 (150 years)
Julian, bishop of Halicarnassus , also known as Julian the Phantastiast, was an anti-Chalcedonian theologian who contested with Severus of Antioch over the phtharos of Christ. His followers were known as the Aphthartodocetae. He lived in exile for a time in the monastery of the Enaton in Egypt.
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Charles Herle
1598 - 1659 (61 years)
Charles Herle was a prominent English theologian, of moderate Presbyterian views. Herle graduated from Exeter College, Oxford with an M.A. in 1618. He was vicar of Winwick, Lancashire, from 1626. In a controversy with Henry Ferne, a Royalist, Herle insisted, against divine right theory, that a monarch's sovereignty was mediated by the people, rather than coming directly from God. It has been suggested that this work marks the beginning of a transition from theories of mixed government to the doctrine of separation of powers. His 1643 work on The independency on scriptures of the independency ...
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Gulielmus Bucanus
1505 - 1603 (98 years)
Gulielmus Bucanus was a Swiss-French Calvinist theologian. His Institutiones theologicae was one of the first systematic works of theology of the Reformed Church. Life He was born at Rouen. He was a regent master at the Collège de Lausanne in 1564, and then was ordained deacon in 1568. He became pastor at Yverdon in 1571, and was theology professor at the Lausanne Academy from 1591. He was invited to a position at the Saumur Academy, but died before he could take it up.
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Arthur Rawson Ashwell
1824 - 1879 (55 years)
Arthur Rawson Ashwell was a canon residentiary of Chichester and principal of the Theological College, Chichester. Biography Ashwell was born at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. In 1843 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, but migrated to Caius College in 1845, being elected a foundation scholar there the following year. In 1847 he graduated BA as fifteenth wrangler, and in 1848 he received holy orders, and became curate of Speldhurst, Kent. In the following year he returned to Cambridge as curate of St. Mary the Less, in order that he might study theology under the direction of Professor Blunt.
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Caspar Isenkrahe
1844 - 1921 (77 years)
Mathias Caspar Hubert Isenkrahe was a German mathematician, physicist and Catholic philosopher of nature. Life Isenkrahe's father died before Caspar's birth. Isenkrahe visited in 1856 the Progymnasium in Jülich, in 1857 the Marzellengymnasium in Cologne and from 1858 to 1863 the Realprogymnasium in Bonn. In 1868 he studied at the University of Bonn where he chose the subjects mathematics, physics, chemistry, mineralogy, botany, zoology, philosophy, Latin and German. On 31 July 1866 he made his PhD with an award-winning work about the anatomy of Helicina titanica, a species of snail. He became...
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Louis Ruffet
1836 - 1923 (87 years)
Louis Ruffet was a Swiss Protestant theologian and church historian. In 1859 he received his bachelor's degree in theology at the École de theologie in Geneva and became ordained as a minister at the Église de l'Oratoire. He served as a minister in the French communities of Royan, Le Creusot and Aix-les-Bains, and in 1861 returned to Geneva as a minister at the Église de l'Oratoire, where he preached until 1869. In 1870–72 he worked as a director of a seminary in Lausanne, and afterwards, taught classes in church history at the École de théologie in Geneva. In 1874 he was awarded an honorary ...
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Giuseppe Ciantes
1602 - 1670 (68 years)
Giuseppe Ciantes, O.P. was a Roman Catholic prelate, hebraist and theologian who served as Bishop of Marsico Nuovo . Biography Giuseppe Ciantes was born in Rome, Italy in 1602 and ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers. He completed his studies at the Roman studium of the Dominican Order at Santa Maria sopra Minerva, which later developed into the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, and was professor of theology and philosophy there before 1640. He devoted himself to the study of Oriental languages, and had the opportunity of applying his knowledge of Hebrew for the conversion of the Jews, to whom Urban VIII had appointed him preacher in Rome.
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Henry Aldrich
1647 - 1710 (63 years)
Henry Aldrich was an English theologian, philosopher, architect, and composer. Life Aldrich was educated at Westminster School under Dr Richard Busby. In 1662, he entered Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1689 was made Dean in succession to the Roman Catholic John Massey, who had fled to the Continent. In 1692, he became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford until 1695. In 1702, he was appointed Rector of Wem in Shropshire, but continued to reside at Oxford, where he died on 14 December 1710. He was buried in Christ Church Cathedral without any memorial, at his own request. However, a medal...
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James Bowling Mozley
1813 - 1878 (65 years)
James Bowling Mozley was an English theologian. He was born at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, the younger brother of Thomas Mozley, and was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School and later Oriel College, Oxford.
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Alexander James Grieve
1874 - 1952 (78 years)
Rev. Alexander James Grieve was a British theologian, writer and Liberal Party politician. Background Grieve was born the eldest son of John Grieve. He was educated at University College, Aberystwyth, Mansfield College, Oxford and the University of Berlin. He obtained a First Class Honors in Theology at Oxford in 1897 and London in 1912. In 1897 he married Evelyne Mary Thomas. They had four sons and two daughters.
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Charles N. Sims
1835 - 1908 (73 years)
Charles N. Sims was an American Methodist preacher and the third chancellor of Syracuse University, serving from 1881 to 1893. Sims Hall and Sims drive on the Syracuse campus is named for him. Early life Sims was born in Fairfield, Indiana in 1835. He graduated in 1859 from Indiana Ashbury University and received a Masters of Arts degree from there in 1861. Sims served as the first president of Valparaiso Male and Female College for two years starting in 1860 before resigning to become a minister. He was granted a Doctor of Divinity degree from Ashbury in 1871. In addition, he received an honorary M.
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Johannes Knolleisen
1450 - 1513 (63 years)
Johannes Knolleisen was a German theological professor. Nothing is known about his parents and his youth, aside from his being born in Allenstein , Ermland , State of the Teutonic Order. He received his magister degree in theology from the University of Leipzig, becoming rector of the university in 1478. Knolleisen became canon at Merseburg Cathedral in Merseburg in 1489. By the time of his death in 1511, Knolleisen and Lucas David had created a stipend of 700 Rhenish gulden to help two worthy students from Allenstein study in Leipzig.
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F. S. Marsh
1886 - 1953 (67 years)
Fred Shipley Marsh was an English clergyman and theologian, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1935 to 1951. The son of James William Marsh, by his marriage to Elizabeth Shipley, he was the eldest son in a family of eight children. Educated at Cambridge, in 1907 Marsh was elected a Tyrwhitt Scholar, and much of his subsequent work was in the field of Syriac studies.
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Hans Ording
1884 - 1952 (68 years)
Hans Nielsen Hauge Ording was a Norwegian theologian. Biography He was born in Solum as a son of dean Theodor Ording and Johanne Gabrielle Gustava Andrea Hauge . He was a grandson of Andreas Hauge, and great-grandson of Hans Nielsen Hauge. He was also a first cousin of Johannes Ording and Fredrik Ording, and thus a first cousin once removed of actor Jørn Ording, politician Aake Anker Ording and historian and politician Arne Ording.
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Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi
1384 - 1479 (95 years)
Abdul-Rahman al-Tha'alibi , was an Arab Scholar, Imam and Sufi wali. He was born near the town of Isser 86 km south east of Algiers. He was raised in a very spiritual environment with high Islamic values and ethics. He had great interpersonal skills and devoted his entire life in service of the most deprived, to dhikr of Allah, and to writing of over 100 books and treatises.
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John Payne
1532 - 1582 (50 years)
John Payne was an English Catholic priest and martyr, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Background John Payne was born at Peterborough in 1532. He was probably a mature man when he went to the English College at Douai in 1574, served there as bursar, and was ordained priest by the Archbishop of Cambrai on 7 April 1576.
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Frederick William Stellhorn
1841 - 1919 (78 years)
Frederick William Stellhorn , an American Lutheran theologian, was born in Brüninghorstedt, a community in Warmsen the Landkreis of Hannover, in Lower Saxony , Germany. Early years Stellhorn was born at Brüninghorstedt in the Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, son of Johann Peter and Katharina Stellhorn. He immigrated to the United States when he was twelve. His father died of cholera in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in September 1854, leaving his mother widowed with two young children. His older brother helped provide for the family. He attended German language Lutheran parochial schools in Fort Wayne. In ...
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Laurence Clarkson
1615 - 1667 (52 years)
Laurence Clarkson , sometimes called Claxton, born in Preston, Lancashire, was an English theologian and accused heretic. He was the most outspoken and notorious of the loose collection of radical Protestants known as the Ranters.
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John Kyparissiotes
1310 - 1378 (68 years)
John Kyparissiotes or Cyparissiotes , called “the Wise” by his contemporaries, was a Byzantine theologian and the leading Anti-Palamite writer in the period that followed the deaths of Nikephoros Gregoras and of Palamas himself . Of all the fourteenth-century opponents of Gregory Palamas, he was the most systematic theologian, and perhaps the ablest. Most of his works remain in original manuscripts, unedited; none has ever appeared in translation in a modern language. Although editions of some of his works have been made since the 1950s, most of them, published in small printings in Greece, a...
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Eustratios of Constantinople
Eustratios or Eustratius was a hagiographer, theologian and priest of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Eustratios was a native of Melitene. He was a pupil of Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople , whose biography he wrote. It is a basically factual account, although not lacking in rhetorical flourish. It is an important source for the Second Council of Constantinople and for Eutychius' exile in Amaseia .
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Josias Simmler
1530 - 1576 (46 years)
Josias Simmler was a Swiss theologian and classicist, author of the first book relating solely to the Alps. Life The son of the former prior of the Cistercian convent of Kappel , he was born at Kappel, where his father was the Protestant pastor and schoolmaster till his death in 1557. In 1544 Simmler went to Zürich to continue his education under his godfather, the reformer, Heinrich Bullinger. After having completed his studies at Basel and Strasbourg, he returned to Zürich, and became pastor to the neighboring villages.
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John Warner
1581 - 1666 (85 years)
John Warner was an English churchman, Bishop of Rochester and royalist. Life and career Son of Harman Warner of London, merchant tailor, he was baptised at St. Clement Danes in the Strand on 17 September 1581. He became demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1599, and was elected fellow there in 1604. He proceeded M.A. in 1605, and D.D. in 1616. He was rector of St. Michael's, Crooked Lane, London, from 1614 to 1619, and was nominated prebendary and canon of Canterbury in 1616. He was instituted rector of Bishopsbourne, Kent, in 1619, rector of Hollingbourne, Kent, in 1624, and rector of St. Di...
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Petrus Mosellanus
1493 - 1524 (31 years)
Petrus Mosellanus Protegensis was a German humanist scholar. He is best known for the popular work on rhetoric, Tabulae de schematibus et tropis, and his Paedologia. He became professor at the University of Leipzig. He gave the opening Latin oration at the 1519 Leipzig Disputation between Johann Eck and Martin Luther.
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Francis X. Talbot
1889 - 1953 (64 years)
Francis Xavier Talbot was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was active in Catholic literary and publishing circles, and became the President of Loyola College in Maryland. Born in Philadelphia, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1906, and was educated at St. Andrew-on-Hudson and Woodstock College. He taught for several years in New York City and at Boston College, before entering publishing as the literary editor of America magazine in 1923, of which he became the editor-in-chief in 1936. While in this role, he was also active in founding and editing several academic journals, including Thought, and establishing various Catholic literary societies and book clubs.
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Arlotto of Prato
1201 - 1286 (85 years)
Arlotto of Prato was an Italian Franciscan theologian. He became Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor at the end of his life. Arlotto is known also for the Quaestio de Aeternitate Mundi, and as a Biblical scholar. He compiled a Bible concordance, of the Latin Vulgate. This is sometimes cited as the first such. It was in fact based on an earlier thirteenth century work of Hugh of St. Cher. The Jewish Encyclopedia states that Arlotto's work was then used as a model for a Hebrew Bible concordance, by Isaac Nathan ben Kalonymus.
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John Henry Hopkins
1792 - 1868 (76 years)
John Henry Hopkins was the first bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and the eighth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He was also an artist , a lawyer, an ironmonger, a musician and composer, a theologian, and an architect who introduced Gothic architecture into the United States.
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Aeschillus Petraeus
1593 - 1657 (64 years)
Æschillus Petræus was Bishop of Turku in 1652–1657. Biography Petræus was lecturer and Dean of the grammar school in Turku. He was also the first professor of theology at Turku Academy and Rector of the University. Petræus was from the Swedish-speaking part of Sweden, but well versed in the Finnish language. He, among other things, led a Bible Translation Committee and published the first grammar of the Finnish language, Linguae Finnicae brevis institutio in 1649. On 20 October 1652 he was appointed Bishop of Turku and was consecrated on 24 October at the Storkyrkan in Stockholm.
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Johann Friedrich Ludwig Volckmann
1758 - 1815 (57 years)
Johann Friedrich Ludwig Volckmann was a German theologian, lawyer and animal rights writer. Volckmann studied theology and law in Leipzig. He worked in his hometown of Arnstadt as a bailiff and later as a government and court advocate. In 1794, he founded the Verein der Literaturfreunde zu Arnstadt .
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Benedetto Justiniani
1550 - 1622 (72 years)
Benedetto Justiniani was a Jesuit theologian and Biblical scholar from Genoa, in what is today Italy. Justiniani entered the Jesuit noviciate at Rome in 1579 and later taught rhetoric in the Roman College, and then theology at Toulouse, Messina, and Rome. For more than twenty years, he served as head of the Roman College and regens of the Sacra Poenitentiaria . He also filled the post of Chief Preacher to the Pope. Pope Clement VIII appointed him theologian to Cardinal Thomas Cajetan, during his legation in Poland. Justiniani died at Rome in 1622.
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Conrad Porta
1541 - 1585 (44 years)
Conrad Porta was a Lutheran pastor of Mansfeld, and author of theologian tracts of the first generation following Martin Luther. His most notable work is the Jungfrawen-Spiegel of 1580 which he wrote on the request of the widowed Margareta von Mansfeld-Hinterort, duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg .
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Jacques-Hyacinthe Serry
1659 - 1738 (79 years)
Jacques-Hyacinthe Serry was a French Dominican Thomist theologian, controversialist and historian. At the University of Padua from 1698, he taught theology based more closely on Biblical and patristic authority.
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Krzysztof Crell-Spinowski
1622 - 1680 (58 years)
Krzysztof Crell-Spinowski was an Arian theologian, pastor of the church of the Polish Brethren. Christopher Crellius was the middle generation of three Socinian theologians: he was son of Johannes Crellius, and father of Samuel Crellius-Spinowski. Krzysztof Crell-Spinowski was educated first where he was born, at the Racovian Academy, then following the forced closure of the Racovian Academy in 1639, at the University of Leiden.
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Gabriel Piguet
1887 - 1952 (65 years)
Gabriel Piguet was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clermont-Ferrand, France. Involved in Catholic resistance to Nazism, he was imprisoned in the Priest Barracks of Dachau Concentration Camp in 1944. He has been honoured as a Righteous Gentile by Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Memorial.
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William Archibald Spooner
1844 - 1930 (86 years)
William Archibald Spooner was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously. Many spoonerisms have been invented and attributed to Spooner.
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Geart Aeilco Wumkes
1869 - 1954 (85 years)
Geart Aeilco Wumkes or G.A. Wumkies was a Protestant West Frisian language Bible translator, historian, and preacher of the Dutch Reformed Church. Major work His major work was the translation of the Bible into West Frisian, with the New Testament being published in 1933 and the Old Testament in 1943. The Old Testament was completed with the help of E. B. Folkertsma. The complete Bible was published in 1943.
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Johan Magnus Almqvist
1799 - 1873 (74 years)
Johan Magnus Almqvist was a Swedish theologian and parliamentarian. Biography Almqvist was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to civil servant and vicar and Gustava Brandelius. He began his studies at Uppsala University in 1819 and thereafter studied at Lund University, receiving his master's degree in philosophy in 1823. The following year he was ordained. In 1830, Almqvist became vicar of Skärstad Church near Jönköping and remained so until his death. From 1844 to 1866 he was a contractual provost and member of the Riksdag of the Estates. As a politician, he was a liberal and belonged to the opposition party within the clergy against its conservative majority.
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Jakob Martini
1570 - 1649 (79 years)
Jakob Martini was a German Lutheran theologian and philosopher. Biography Jakob Martini was born at Langenstein in the hill country to the west of Magdeburg. Adam Martini, his father, was a pastor.
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Fernando Castro Palao
1581 - 1633 (52 years)
Fernando Castro Palao was a Spanish Jesuit theologian. Life At the age of fifteen, in 1596, he entered the Society of Jesus. He taught philosophy at Valladolid, moral theology at Compostela, and scholastic theology at Salamanca.
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Joseph von Zhishman
1820 - 1894 (74 years)
Joseph von Zhishman was an Austrian lawyer and specialist in canon law. Zhishman was born in Ljubljana and baptized Josephus Zhishman. He attended high school and the Lyceum in Ljubljana. In 1839 he went to Vienna to study law and graduated in 1843. He continued his studies in oriental languages, obtained his doctorate, and worked in the philology and history department at the University of Vienna until 1851. After he passed the state examination in history, geography, Latin, and Greek for all high school classes in 1851, he taught at the Trieste State High School. In 1853 he was transferred to the Theresianum in Vienna.
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